Politics

Monday, January 4th 2016 - 07:09 UTC
Brazil's Rousseff faces Olympic political and financial challenges this year

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff began the new year on the offensive declaring the impeachment proceedings she faces as “unfair” and overruling by veto more than 50 amendments made by lawmakers to the nation’s budget, including reductions to her flagship Bolsa Familia social program.
Monday, January 4th 2016 - 06:56 UTC
Head of Malvinas Museum, one of Argentina's foremost experts on the issue

Federico Lorenz, considered one of Argentina's foremost experts on the Falklands/Malvinas Islands issue and author of multiple works on their history, will take the reins as the interim director of the Malvinas Islands Museum in the latest in a far-reaching shuffle of key cultural positions in President Mauricio Macri’s new administration.
Monday, January 4th 2016 - 06:35 UTC
Argentine ex foreign minister Taiana speaker of Mercosur parliament during 2016

Argentina's former foreign affairs minister under ex president Cristina Fernandez, Jorge Taiana has been nominated speaker of the Mercosur Parliament in Montevideo, as of this month and year.
Thursday, December 31st 2015 - 08:35 UTC
Spain's Socialists rules out any partner that supports Catalonia independence referendum

Spain's Socialist party ruled out forming a new government with any party that supported a referendum on independence in Catalonia, a stand that prolongs political uncertainty after this month's inconclusive national election.
Thursday, December 31st 2015 - 08:22 UTC
Switzerland hands bank documents from FIFA corruption to US prosecutors

Swiss authorities have handed over the first round of bank documents seized in their FIFA corruption investigation to U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday. The Federal Office of Justice in Switzerland says the documents relate to “bank accounts allegedly used for bribes connected with the grant of marketing rights to soccer tournaments in Latin America and the USA.”
Thursday, December 31st 2015 - 07:50 UTC
Holdouts subpoena HSBC on Argentina's efforts to raise money abroad

Creditors suing Argentina over billions of dollars in defaulted bonds have subpoenaed HSBC Holdings Plc for information about the country's effort to raise money abroad, a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday, as reported by Reuters.
Thursday, December 31st 2015 - 07:43 UTC
Global economic growth in 2016, “disappointing and patchy” forecasts Lagarde

Global economic growth will be “disappointing and patchy” in 2016, the head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, wrote in an article published in the German business daily Handelsblatt on Wednesday.
Thursday, December 31st 2015 - 07:31 UTC
Chile's Bachelet waiting for the year to end: 2015 has been the worst in her political history

It has been a bad year, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet told a Santiago newspaper this week, admitting that corruption scandals have sapped confidence in the country's institutions while sparking a reform drive that should bear fruit going forward.
Wednesday, December 30th 2015 - 14:10 UTC
Two ex ministers with prison sentences for Buenos Aires train accident that killed 51 and injured 789

An Argentine court handed down prison sentences of up to nine years for those charged in the February 2012 train accident in Buenos Aires that killed 51 people and injured more than 700.
Wednesday, December 30th 2015 - 02:24 UTC
Russian polar vessel and helicopters will supply Argentine Antarctica bases

For the eighth season, Argentina's Antarctic bases and stations are to be supplied by the Russian polar vessel Vasily Golovnin from Arkadia Ltd. This has been going on since 2007 when the Argentine flagship ice-breaker Almirante Irizar caught fire in the high seas and is still in repairs waiting for the necessary funds.