Politics

• Saturday, May 7th 2016 - 00:08 UTC

  A Temer government would allow full foreign control of Brazilian airlines

  

  A Brazilian government led by Vice-President Michel Temer would consider allowing foreign owners to acquire a controlling stake in local airlines, one of his closest aides revealed. Wellington Moreira Franco, a chief economic adviser for Temer and a former aviation minister, said relaxing the current limits on foreign ownership would help bolster competition in an industry suffering its worst crisis in decades.

• Friday, May 6th 2016 - 08:32 UTC

  Four million Argentine children live in poverty conditions, according to Unicef

  

  Almost four million children in Argentina are poor and 8.5% live in extreme poverty, according to a report from UNICEF which measures multidimensional poverty which considers 28 indicators such as nutrition, access to healthcare, exposure to violence, among other more traditional references.

• Friday, May 6th 2016 - 08:22 UTC

  Brazil's Lower House speaker removed by the Supreme Court on justice obstruction

  

  Brazil's Supreme Court removed the speaker of the lower house of Congress on Thursday on charges of obstructing a corruption investigation, days before an impeachment process that he engineered was expected to oust President Dilma Rousseff.

• Friday, May 6th 2016 - 08:07 UTC

  Folha exposes Rousseff's 'exit with dignity' next week and plans for a comeback strategy

  

  President Dilma Rousseff laid out the details last Monday for what she calls her “bunker of resistance”: a team of advisors to be installed in the Alvorada Palace next week. It will have a maximum of 15 members, according to a report to one of the main dailies, Folha de Sao Paulo.

• Friday, May 6th 2016 - 07:54 UTC

  British ambassador celebrates 'the renewed and revitalized' UK/Argentina bilateral relationship

  

  On 28 April, the British Ambassador’s Residence in Buenos Aires welcomed more than 400 people to celebrate the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II. The last time that Buenos Aires held a celebration like this was in 2009 and it was an opportunity to praise the resumption of bilateral ties.

• Friday, May 6th 2016 - 07:27 UTC

  First UK trade mission in ten years begins contacts in Argentina

  

  British Trade and Investment Minister, Lord Price, leads the UK’s first trade mission to Argentina in ten years, which arrived in Buenos Aires on Thursday. The mission looks to strengthen trade and investment relations with the third largest economy of Latin America.

• Friday, May 6th 2016 - 07:13 UTC

  Councils-election: Labour doing better than expected in England; Scotland's Sturgeon wins a third term for the SNP

  

  Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has avoided the drubbing some had predicted as the party retained control of key councils in England, but the party had a bad night in the Scottish Parliament elections, where Nicola Sturgeon won an historic third term for the SNP reported BBC late Thursday.

• Friday, May 6th 2016 - 07:00 UTC

  Republican party orthodoxy waiting for a unifying message from the Trump challenge

  

  United States Speaker of the Lower House and one of the most powerful members of the Republican party, Paul D. Ryan thrust open Thursday the discomfort that many party members are feeling about Donald Trump as their presumed presidential nominee, withholding his support and deepening the fracture between the outsider candidate and the party he hopes to lead.

• Friday, May 6th 2016 - 06:38 UTC

  Bad news for Macri: Moody's forecasts Argentine economy will shrink 1.5%

  

  Despite the Argentine government’s forecast of a much better economic scenario in the second half of the year, credit rating agency Moody’s disagrees, saying the economy is set to shrink by 1.5%, followed by a growing unemployment and an inflation rate well above 30%.

• Thursday, May 5th 2016 - 21:12 UTC

  Strong support for the Falkland’s right to self-determination on North American Tour

  

  Falkland Island’s Legislative Assembly member, Mike Summers, recently travelled to North America on a three week trip to gauge support for the Falklands’ right to self-determination from the new Canadian Government. In addition to visiting Canada, MLA Summers also made stops in Miami and the Bahamas.