Politics

Monday, December 18th 2017 - 13:35 UTC
Russia again becomes main supplier of oil for Cuban refinery

Venezuela has pulled out of a partnership with Cuba in its Cienfuegos oil refinery and the Caribbean island has taken full ownership of the plant, Cuban state media said. Venezuela is grappling with an economic crisis that already forced it to slash cheap oil shipments to Cuba, which has had a knock-on effect on the island’s ailing economy.
Monday, December 18th 2017 - 11:39 UTC
Morales insists in involving the Pope in the ongoing sea outlet dispute between Bolivia and Chile

Bolivian President Evo Morales implied in a Tweet that he and Pope Francis had discussed Bolivia’s territorial dispute with Chile during a meeting at the Vatican on December 15. According to the Vatican, the 30-minute private meeting “took place in a cordial atmosphere.”
Monday, December 18th 2017 - 09:22 UTC
Mexican presidential candidate Lopez Obrador presents a moderate pragmatic cabinet

The left leaning front-runner for Mexico’s 2018 presidential election proposed a moderate U.S.-trained economist for finance minister, unveiling a planned cabinet made up of men and women in equal measure.
Monday, December 18th 2017 - 07:16 UTC
Argentina ready for another attempt to approve the pension reform bill on Monday

The government of Argentina has decided to vote on the pension reform bill on Monday amid speculation that President Mauricio Macri's administration could use a decree to fast-track the legislation.
Monday, December 18th 2017 - 06:56 UTC
Theresa May and cabinet to discuss UK's future relationship with the EU

Theresa May is due to meet her “Brexit cabinet” - about a dozen of her most senior ministers - to discuss for the first time what the UK's future relationship with the EU should be. The PM will later tell MPs the UK wants to sign trade deals during what she calls an implementation period.
Monday, December 18th 2017 - 06:41 UTC
Kuczynski appeals to an Odebrecht letter which says he was not in the “pay list”

Brazilian builder Odebrecht said on Saturday that its recently-disclosed business ties to embattled Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski were not part of the corrupt deals it struck with politicians that it has acknowledged to prosecutors.
Monday, December 18th 2017 - 05:55 UTC
Piñera is Chile's next president: he beat the center left candidate by ten points

Billionaire former President Sebastian Piñera easily won Chile's presidential runoff election on Sunday, moving the world's top-copper producing country back to the right. Piñera got 54.6% of the votes to 45.4% for center-left Senator Alejandro Guillier, with nearly all the ballots counted.
Monday, December 18th 2017 - 05:27 UTC
Hernandez declared Honduras president; opposition leader off to Washington to denounce “fraud”

Honduras’ electoral tribunal on Sunday declared conservative President Juan Orlando Hernandez the official winner of the Nov. 26 presidential election, sparking fraud accusations and calls for renewed street protests after a bitterly disputed contest. Hernandez beat center-left challenger and TV star Salvador Nasralla by 1.53 percentage points, according to the official count.
Saturday, December 16th 2017 - 17:19 UTC
Hondurans take to the streets to demand proclamation of opposition leader as president

Honduran protesters blocked roads and burned tires to press the authorities to cancel the election victory of incumbent President Juan Orlando Hernandez and to proclaim opposition leader Salvador Nasralla the winner.
Saturday, December 16th 2017 - 17:18 UTC
Argentina sacks the head of the Navy, first disciplinary action since the loss of ARA San Juan

Argentina fired the head of its navy a month after a submarine disappeared in the South Atlantic with 44 crew members onboard, a government spokesman said on Saturday. Local paper La Nacion had reported earlier, citing anonymous sources, that Navy Admiral Marcelo Eduardo Hipolito Srur was let go by the defense minister.