Politics

• Tuesday, September 24th 2019 - 09:53 UTC

  Argentine biggest bondholders to meet with Treasury Secretary Lacunza

  

  A group of Argentina’s biggest bondholders will meet with the country’s treasury minister in New York this Monday to hear how Latin America’s third-largest economy plans to dig itself out of its latest debt crisis.

• Tuesday, September 24th 2019 - 09:52 UTC

  OAS votes to use Rio Treaty to implement economic sanctions to the Maduro regime, but no military action

  

  In a meeting convened by the Organization of American States, 16 of the 19 states party to the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, a 1947 pact known as the Rio Treaty, backed using the pact to collaborate on law-enforcement operations and economic sanctions against Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, and associates, accusing his regime of criminal activity including drug trafficking and money laundering.

• Tuesday, September 24th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Bachelet feels sorry for Brazil, “how I take things, depends on who is saying them...”

  

  U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet, who earlier this month came under personal attack from Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, says she feels sorry for Brazil, according to a Chilean media report published on Sunday.

• Tuesday, September 24th 2019 - 09:26 UTC

  Argentina Needs Intensive Care

  

  By Anne Krueger (*) - Argentina's President Mauricio Macri knew that he had inherited a sick economy when he took office in 2015, but failed to take his medicine. As a result, the country now has no choice but to face up to a period of painful structural adjustment.

• Tuesday, September 24th 2019 - 09:08 UTC

  Argentine private sector workers given extra payment to compensate for inflation

  

  Argentina's private-sector workers will see their wages topped off by 5,000 pesos (US$ 88) in a one-time non-taxable payment aimed at boosting their buying power amid surging inflation, the Production Ministry said on Monday.

• Tuesday, September 24th 2019 - 09:05 UTC

  CPC/CPA conference opened in Uganda; Falklands' delegation attending

  

  The Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (CPC) has kicked off Monday morning at the Speke Resort Munyonyo. Uganda, with closed meetings of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) regional secretaries. A delegation from the Falkland Islands is attending the meeting.

• Tuesday, September 24th 2019 - 07:53 UTC

  With revenue increasing Brazil unlocks budget funds for education and defense

  

  Brazil’s government will free up 12.5 billion reais (US$3 billion) for discretionary spending, the Economy Ministry said in its latest bi-monthly spending and revenue report, as it seeks to ease the pressure on departmental budgets following deep spending freezes this year.

• Tuesday, September 24th 2019 - 07:32 UTC

  Trump increases pressure on China to buy farm products

  

  U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday questioned a decision by his top trade negotiators to ask Chinese officials to delay a planned trip to U.S. farming regions after trade talks last week, saying he wanted China to buy more American farm products.

• Tuesday, September 24th 2019 - 03:34 UTC

  Thomas Cook collapse forces the largest peacetime repatriation effort in UK history

  

  Hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers were stranded on Monday by the collapse of the world’s oldest travel firm Thomas Cook, sparking the largest peacetime repatriation effort in British history.

• Monday, September 23rd 2019 - 13:20 UTC

  Experts predict that US-China trade war deal may be imminent

  

  Prominent Chinese economist Chen Wenling has recently advised that a trade deal between the United States and her home country may be imminent, marking the beginning of the end for the damaging conflict between these two nations.