Politics

• Saturday, April 1st 2017 - 09:43 UTC

  Paraguay: protestors set Congress on fire following secret vote allowing presidential reelection

  

  Protesters stormed and set fire to Paraguay's Congress on Friday after the Senate secretly voted for a constitutional amendment that would allow President Horacio Cartes to run for re-election, a change that will also require approval by the Lower House. The country's constitution has prohibited re-election since it was passed in 1992 after a brutal dictatorship fell in 1989.

• Saturday, April 1st 2017 - 09:09 UTC

  Chavism divided: Chief prosecutor says there has been a ”rupture of constitutional order

  

  Venezuela's chief prosecutor broke with the government on Friday and rebuked a Supreme Court decision stripping Congress of its last vestiges of power, showing a crack in the unity of the embattled populist government of President Nicolas Maduro as it came under a torrent of international condemnation over what many decried as a major step toward dictatorship.

• Saturday, April 1st 2017 - 08:37 UTC

  Falklands begins process for new port facilities to support economic growth

  

  The Falkland Islands has approved the commencement of work that will lead to the delivery of new port facilities to support economic growth into the next decade. According to a release from the Falklands elected government, the new work will build on the substantial previous studies completed in 2012 and 2014, which investigated the viability of various sites, and resources are expected to be allocated during the 2017/18 budget process.

• Friday, March 31st 2017 - 17:33 UTC

  Falkland Islands Journal CD 4th edition: local history at your fingertips

  

  Since 1967, the Falkland Islands Journal has been an independent annual academic publication on all aspects of the history, natural history and geography of the Falkland Islands and associated regions. Special features are included each year. The emphasis is on recording the culture, heritage and natural environment of the Falkland Islands.

• Friday, March 31st 2017 - 07:35 UTC

  Gibraltar presents Medallion of Honor to US Congressman Holding

  

  The Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia this morning presented the Gibraltar Medallion of Honor to Congressman George Holding in the Capitol Building in Washington. The presentation took place in the Lincoln Room, once used by Abraham Lincoln to lobby members of Congress.

• Friday, March 31st 2017 - 07:20 UTC

  Venezuelan Supreme Court closes Legislative gives all power to Maduro: world condemnation

  

  The Venezuelan Supreme Court's decision late Wednesday to take control of the opposition-controlled legislature has set off a wave of outrage, with some hemispheric neighbors, including the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Peru and Argentina, denouncing the measure as a threat to democracy.

• Friday, March 31st 2017 - 05:05 UTC

  Odebrecht insists Rousseff was aware of slush funds provided for the presidential campaign

  

  One of Brazil's leading newspapers, Folha de Sao Paulo, reported that the Odebrecht family group confessed to have provided the 2014 presidential ticket campaign, Dilma Rousseff-Michel Temer with millions of dollars in slush funds for the campaign.

• Friday, March 31st 2017 - 04:55 UTC

  Falklands includes a new island in its EEZ with UN support

  

  The Falklands have added a new island. A representative of the United Nations Commission on the Law of the Sea, Lithuanian geologist Professor Loof Lirpa, has confirmed to Penguin News that a new island has emerged in the South Atlantic Ocean, about 150 miles north of Steeple Jason.

• Friday, March 31st 2017 - 04:52 UTC

  UK confident of closer relations with Argentina and Mercosur, in the Brexit process

  

  Ambassador in Argentina Mark Kent said that the UK process of leaving the EU will be slow and in the meantime as it opens to new alliances, new markets, Britain will be looking for closer relations with Argentina, and Mercosur, not geared by protectionism but rather the opposite, an inclusive globalization.

• Friday, March 31st 2017 - 04:39 UTC

  Rousseff's “hangman” sentenced to 15 years in prison for corruption

  

  A federal court sentenced Brazil’s former speaker of the Lower House, Eduardo Cunha, to more than 15 years in prison on Thursday for corruption, making him the highest-profile political conviction yet in the “Operation Car Wash” scandal. The former politician’s defense team said they would appeal the decision but Cunha will remain imprisoned pending appeal.