Politics

• Tuesday, September 15th 2015 - 10:06 UTC

  Tierra del Fuego August inflation, 2.3% and 28.4% in the last twelve months

  

  The consumer price index in Tierra del Fuego, extreme south of Argentina climbed 2.3% in August, totaling 17.4% in the first eight months and 28.4% in the last twelve months, according to the province's stats and census office.

• Tuesday, September 15th 2015 - 09:58 UTC

  OAS supports holding first round of presidential election in Haiti on 25 October

  

  The Organization of American States (OAS) supports holding the first round of presidential elections in Haiti on the scheduled date of October 25, and for that reason, the Director of the Department for Electoral Cooperation and Observation (DECO), Gerardo de Icaza, on Monday travelled to the Caribbean country.

• Tuesday, September 15th 2015 - 09:51 UTC

  US and Switzerland anticipate further charges in FIFA's bribery investigation

  

  United States Attorney General Loretta Lynch won’t say if outgoing president Sepp Blatter is a target of an expanding probe into FIFA corruption, but anticipated she expects more charges against “individuals and entities”.

• Tuesday, September 15th 2015 - 09:40 UTC

  Lula 'intimately' wants Dilma removed from office, says O Estado de Sao Paulo

  

  Former Brazilian president Lula da Silva, “intimately celebrates” a possible political action that would remove president Dilma Rousseff from the Planalto Palace, according to one of the country's most respected and serious dailies, O Estado de Sao Paulo.

• Tuesday, September 15th 2015 - 09:07 UTC

  Pope warns militants could slip into Europe in the midst of the wave of refugees

  

  Pope Francis has warned against the risk that militants could slip into Europe under cover of a huge wave of refugees fleeing war in Syria but also said the migrant crisis could help reawaken the continent's conscience.

• Tuesday, September 15th 2015 - 04:51 UTC

  Jeremy Corbyn and the Falkland Islands

  

  'Following the controversial election of Jeremy Corbyn as the new leader of the British Labour Party, the Daily Mail published, on Monday 15th September, the following letter which was written by Patrick Watts who was Head of Falklands Radio 1977-1999 and who was broadcasting at the time of the Argentine Invasion in April 1982.'

• Monday, September 14th 2015 - 10:24 UTC

  Folha: “President Rousseff's last chance to save her government”

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has one last chance to stem a growing political and economic crisis before being forced to step down, one of the country's leading daily newspapers said on Sunday.

• Monday, September 14th 2015 - 10:15 UTC

  Catholic church exposes 'true reality' of infant malnutrition in Argentina

  

  The Catholic church warned of the “true reality” of infant malnutrition and structural poverty which does 'not yield' in Argentina, on launching the traditional funds' collection “More for Less” which took place over the weekend under the motto “Let's give more so that less suffer”.

• Monday, September 14th 2015 - 10:02 UTC

  Poverty and malnutrition back on the Argentine presidential campaign debate

  

  Poverty and malnutrition are back on the Argentine presidential campaign debate as a consequence of the death of a 14-year old boy from an indigenous community which shocked Argentine public opinion.

• Monday, September 14th 2015 - 09:49 UTC

  Argentine opposition lawmakers to demand 'transparency' from the Electoral Court

  

  Argentine lawmakers from several opposition Lower House caucuses will appear on Monday before the National Electoral Court to present their “Inter-party agreement for Electoral Transparency”, an accord to avoid irregularities in October 25 presidential and legislative polls.