Politics

• Monday, April 2nd 2018 - 08:45 UTC

  Barclays agrees to pay US$ 2bn to settle lawsuit for “misleading investors”

  

  Barclays has agreed to pay US$2bn to settle a lawsuit brought by the US government over the sale of mortgage-backed securities. The US alleged that the bank had misled investors about the quality of loans backing the securities in the run-up to the financial crisis.

• Monday, April 2nd 2018 - 06:01 UTC

  Brazil Finance minister Meirelles expected to announce this week his presidential bid

  

  Brazil's Finance Minister, Henrique Meirelles, will step down from the government this week and join the ranks of the ruling Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, senior government officials said. The news of Meirelles' move was broken by the government's chief of staff, Eliseu Padilha.

• Monday, April 2nd 2018 - 05:28 UTC

  The Economist: Mauricio Macri fights Argentina’s tradition of handouts for votes

  

  Just off Leonardo da Vinci Avenue, a long street of modest shops and foul-smelling gutters in the district of La Matanza outside Buenos Aires, stands La Juanita, a co-operative. Founded by unemployed workers in 2001, it occupies a former school.

• Monday, April 2nd 2018 - 05:19 UTC

  Malvinas Veteran and Fallen Day remembered in Argentina with two central ceremonies

  

  The 36th anniversary of the Falklands conflict in 1982 will be recalled in Argentina with two main events: Malvinas relatives will be received on Monday afternoon by president Mauricio Macri at his official residence in Olivos while Interior Minister Rogelio Fregerio will head the ceremony in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, next to the Beagle Channel.

• Monday, April 2nd 2018 - 05:13 UTC

  Royal Air Force centenary: Queen praises shining example of tenacity and gallantry in “defending our freedom”

  

  The Royal Air Force (RAF) has “defended our freedom gallantly”, Queen Elizabeth said on Sunday as she sent her “heartfelt congratulations” to the service as it celebrated its centenary. One hundred years ago, on April 1st, 1918, the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service merged to create the RAF — the world’s first independent air service.

• Sunday, April 1st 2018 - 19:12 UTC

  Trump doesn't care about Latin America, Lula tells Correa

  

  Former Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, better or simply known as Lula, said Donald Trump “doesn't care about Latin America in the least and added that ”Bush and Condoleezza Rice pursued a much more democratic policy towards Brazil than Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.” In his view, Obama could give magnificent speeches, but never actually delivered.

• Saturday, March 31st 2018 - 21:43 UTC

  Church of Colombia donates Venezuela wafers for Easter

  

  Venezuela's shortage of food and medicines reached the Catholic religious field when a donation of wafers from the Church of Colombia became necessary for the current Easter week.

• Saturday, March 31st 2018 - 21:33 UTC

  Members of Temer's entourage arrested in bribe probe

  

  Three people linked to Brazi's President Michel Temer were arrested Thursday in the investigation of a decree the head of state allegedly signed to benefit a port company in exchange for bribes.

• Friday, March 30th 2018 - 22:16 UTC

  A humanitarian triumph in the aftermath of war

  

  By Nicholas Tozer -Buenos Aires.
  THE visit by over two hundred of Argentine next-of-kin to the Argentine Military Cemetery in Darwin in East Falkland earlier this week undoubtedly marks a new milestone in the so-often troubled relations between Argentina and Britain over the Falkland Islands dispute.

• Friday, March 30th 2018 - 09:49 UTC

  Mutiny and fire leave dozens dead in Venezuelan jail; UN calls for a “thorough investigation”

  

  68 inmates lost their lives and more than 30 were injured during a riot and a fire that occurred in an overpopulated police prison in Valencia, in central Venezuela.