Politics

• Tuesday, September 8th 2015 - 06:01 UTC

  Rousseff leads Independence Day celebrations with tight security and no speech fearing pot banging

  

  Brazilian Independence Day celebrations were marked Monday by the extra security surrounding President Dilma Rousseff during the ceremonies in Brasilia. Rousseff, in the official Rolls Royce with the top down and wearing the presidential ribbon, led the military parade for 2 kilometers before taking part in the program of events prepared by the armed forces.

• Tuesday, September 8th 2015 - 05:39 UTC

  Guatemala: Cowboy “Neto” leads on promises to clean the town of corruption

  

  A comedian who played a simpleton cowboy who almost became president emerged Monday as the man to beat in Guatemala's presidential race amid disgust over a corruption scandal that felled the outgoing incumbent.

• Monday, September 7th 2015 - 10:09 UTC

  Brazil's Lula da Silva supports Scioli as Argentina's next president

  

  Former Brazilian head of state Lula da Silva joined the Argentine presidential electoral campaign and made public his support for the incumbent Daniel Scioli in the October dispute, stating that the Victory Front candidate would maintain strong relations with Brazil

• Monday, September 7th 2015 - 09:59 UTC

  “For a more competitive Europe”

  

  Prime Minister and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy wrote an article for the Spanish newspaper Expansión on competiveness.

• Monday, September 7th 2015 - 09:51 UTC

  Chevening scholarships for 27 Argentines: farewell party at the embassy

  

  The British embassy in Buenos Aires offered a farewell reception for 27 Argentines who will be studying in UK universities under the Chevening Scholarships program. Ambassador Dr. John Freeman pointed out at the occasion that the scholarship was “not all about studying, but also about taking the opportunity to travel and meet new people”.

• Monday, September 7th 2015 - 09:38 UTC

  Argentina and Brazil scheduled to meet Maduro over the border situation with Colombia

  

  In the margins of the Petrocaribe Summit currently taking place in Jamaica, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro will be meeting the foreign ministers of Argentina and Brazil to discuss the border crisis with Colombia.

• Monday, September 7th 2015 - 09:25 UTC

  Guatemala first results indicate a presidential run-off next October 25

  

  A former television comic, a wealthy businessman and a former first lady were ahead in early returns in voting for Guatemala's next leader, days after the Central American nation's president resigned over a corruption scandal. With about 51% percent of polling stations reporting early Monday, TV comedian Jimmy Morales, who has never held elective office, was leading with 26.5% of the vote.

• Monday, September 7th 2015 - 09:12 UTC

  Malvinas: All Argentina Is Saying Is Give Dialogue a Chance

  

  By Cecilia Nahón (*) (**) - Over the last few months the United States has reached two historic agreements that have dominated media headlines and the local political debate: the re-establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba after more than 50 years and, more recently, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action agreed by the US, China, Russia, France, United Kingdom and Germany, along with the European Union, with the Islamic Republic of Iran about the latter's nuclear program

• Monday, September 7th 2015 - 08:52 UTC

  HMS Endurance up for sale; she never recovered from the 2008 accident

  

  The Royal Navy has put its Ice Patrol ship, HMS Endurance, up for sale. The icebreaker served as the Royal Navy ice patrol ship between 1991 and 2008 before an accident during routine maintenance destroyed a large part of her equipment.

• Saturday, September 5th 2015 - 07:44 UTC

  Falklands: recreational area next to Stanley could be cleared of Argentine mines after 33 years

  

  A popular recreation area that has been out of bounds for over thirty three years for the people of the Falkland Islands, Yorke Bay, only a few miles away from the capital Stanley, because of the mines laid by the invading Argentine forces in 1982, could in a near future be cleared and again open to the public.