Politics

Wednesday, November 16th 2016 - 09:38 UTC
IMF anticipates a more gradual recovery of the Brazilian economy than forecasted

International Monetary Fund's executive board said on Tuesday that the Brazilian economy could be close to pulling out of a grueling recession, but faces a long and bumpy recovery that hinges on the approval of unpopular reforms. In its considerations of the IMF staff's annual report on Brazil, the executive board said that despite the new government's efforts to avoid a fiscal crisis they expected a gradual recovery in Latin America's top economy.
Wednesday, November 16th 2016 - 09:06 UTC
Trump receives Japan's Abe in New York expecting to reassure Asian allies

Donald Trump is expected to use his first meeting with a foreign leader as U.S. president-elect this week to try to reassure Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and other Asian allies rattled by his campaign rhetoric, advisers to Trump said. Abe, a political blue blood and veteran lawmaker, and Trump, a brash outsider with no diplomatic or government experience, have differences on policy issues such as free trade.
Wednesday, November 16th 2016 - 08:47 UTC
EU farmers on alert at the prospect of increased imports of beef from Mercosur

Cheaper imports from Mercosur and the recovering dairy market will push down EU beef production and prices, states in a long-awaited impact study released by the European Union. Dairy and pigmeat exports will see steady gains, says the report, which looked at the cost of 12 pending trade deals on EU agri-food markets.
Tuesday, November 15th 2016 - 10:52 UTC
Chilean human rights organizations demand Chief Justice's resignation

Hugo Dolmestch, Chief Justice of the Chilean Supreme Court, must resign because “he does not respect international humanitarian law,” according to Alicia Lira, head of the Association of Relatives of Political Executees.
Tuesday, November 15th 2016 - 10:42 UTC
Bolivia: Evo Morales admits he is not ready to go home in 2019

Despite what most Bolivians voted for on February 21, that is against the incumbent president being eligible to run for yet another re-election,
Tuesday, November 15th 2016 - 10:25 UTC
Macri, Trump bound for closest relationship ever after phone call

Argentine President Mauricio Macri spoke with US President-elect Donald Trump, who invited him to visit him in Washington next year. “Argentina is a great country, and we will have the closest relationship between our countries in history,” Trump reportedly said.
Tuesday, November 15th 2016 - 10:12 UTC
It stays in the family: CFK's mother involved in irregularities

Ofelia Wilhelm, mother of former Argentine President Cristina Fernandez, is under judicial investigation for alleged irregularities worth millions of pesos to a firm of which she was a partner.
Tuesday, November 15th 2016 - 09:55 UTC
Conference in Buenos Aires: Snowden fears domestic intelligence will spread in US under Trump

Former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden said on Monday, that Donald Trump's election may increase the intrusiveness of domestic intelligence gathering and warned that the democratic checks and balances were losing ground to authoritarianism.
Tuesday, November 15th 2016 - 09:02 UTC
Trump promises Argentina, a great country, “the closest relation in history”

“Argentina is a great country” and Argentina and the US will have “the closest relation in history”, according to the official version from the administration of president Mauricio Macri who on Monday was on the phone with president elect Donald Trump to congratulate him on his presidential victory.
Tuesday, November 15th 2016 - 08:40 UTC
Cristina Fernandez demands the immediate start of oral trial proceedings in the dollar futures case

Argentine ex president Cristina Fernandez has desisted from appealing her prosecution on charges of fraudulent administration in detriment of the Argentine state in the so called “dollar futures” case involving the Central bank sale of US currency and demands an immediate oral trial.