Politics

• Friday, January 27th 2017 - 10:36 UTC

  Tierra del Fuego questions making Malvinas Veterans Day, April 2, a floating holiday

  

  Argentine province Tierra del Fuego announced its rejection to the government's decision to make national holiday Malvinas Veterans Day, 2 April, a floating holiday anticipating it will bring up the issue in Congress.

• Friday, January 27th 2017 - 10:17 UTC

  “The media is the opposition party”, claims Trump's chief strategist

  

  Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump's chief White House strategist, went on a tirade against the media during an interview with The New York Times. Bannon, who spearheaded the far-right website Breitbart News until he took over as Trump's campaign CEO in August, lambasted the press and said it had been “humiliated” by the results of the 2016 election.

• Thursday, January 26th 2017 - 20:39 UTC

  UK publishes draft legislation to trigger Brexit: parliament debate begins next week

  

  The British government published on Thursday draft legislation that will allow the UK to start the process of leaving the EU. The European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill has been produced after the Supreme Court ruled legislation would be necessary.

• Thursday, January 26th 2017 - 20:24 UTC

  Falkland Islands' war materials turned into roses for peace

  

  Argentine goldsmith Juan Carlos Pallarols is creating beautiful roses and other pieces of art from bullets, pistols and even parts of airplanes from the Falkland Islands war as a way of promoting peace between his country and Britain.

• Thursday, January 26th 2017 - 20:04 UTC

  UPM comments market speculations concerning an alleged pulp mill investment in Uruguay

  

  UPM states that it is not engaged in negotiations on a pulp mill investment with the Uruguayan government. As earlier announced, the company is considering prospects and prerequisites for long-term development in Uruguay. Currently UPM is engaged in discussions with the Government of Uruguay on infrastructure development.

• Thursday, January 26th 2017 - 19:49 UTC

  Mexican wall and migration dispute escalates: Peña Nieto cancels White House visit

  

  Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has cancelled next week's trip to Washington to meet US President Donald Trump. His decision comes a day after the new US president unveiled his plan to build a wall along the Mexico-US border and insisted the US would recoup the costs for the barrier from Mexico, which has strongly objected.

• Thursday, January 26th 2017 - 19:31 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas: regional summit to renew request for UN Secretary General good offices in the dispute

  

  Leaders from the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, CELAC, expressed full support for Argentina's legitimate rights over the South Atlantic islands (Falklands, South Georgia and South Sandwich) and anticipated they will be requesting the UN Secretary General to renew his good offices for the resumption of negotiations between Argentina and UK to reach a peaceful solution to the dispute.

• Thursday, January 26th 2017 - 09:01 UTC

  Argentina cautious about Trump’s administration impact on bilateral trade

  

  Argentina's trade relationship with the United States will not suffer an immediate negative impact with Donald Trump as president, but it remains to be seen how his measures will shape the world economy, according to the Argentine ambassador in Washington, Martín Lousteau.

• Thursday, January 26th 2017 - 07:51 UTC

  Uruguay and Chile, least corrupt countries in Latin America says Transparency International

  

  Over two-thirds of the 176 countries and territories in this year’s Corruption Perceptions Index fall below the midpoint of a scale spanning 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean), said Transparency International (TI) upon the release of the non-profit’s 2016 report. No country reached above 90.

• Thursday, January 26th 2017 - 07:38 UTC

  Plane that crashed killing Brazil's top Justice did not suffer “obvious mechanical failure”

  

  The small plane carrying a Brazilian Supreme Court justice overseeing a political bribery investigation did not suffer any obvious mechanical failure when it crashed into a bay amid heavy rain and killed all five on board, investigators said this week.