Politics

• Sunday, April 12th 2015 - 10:48 UTC

  Pope Francis appeals to Americas Summit for better distribution of riches

  

  In a message addressed to the President of Panama Juan Carlos Varela, Pope Francis urged leaders attending the OAS Americas' Summit to strengthen efforts against inequality which he considered a “source for conflicts.”

• Sunday, April 12th 2015 - 10:29 UTC

  Controversy over Argentine ambassador accounts, dismissed by US bank

  

  Argentine ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS) Nilda Garre denied having accounts neither in the CNB Bank nor in the Felton Bank, saying the US-based entity had written proof that there were no accounts under her name there.

• Sunday, April 12th 2015 - 08:55 UTC

  Obama praised the 'new beginning' in the bilateral relation with Cuba

  

  United States President Barack Obama addressed American leaders in the meeting currently taking place in the City of Panama praising the diplomatic rapprochement between Washington and Cuba which he called “a new beginning” in the bilateral relation.

• Sunday, April 12th 2015 - 08:46 UTC

  Castro calls for a 'civilized relationship'; apologizes to Obama and condemns ten previous US presidents

  

  Cuban President Raul Castro was received with a standing ovation as he readied to address the VII Summit of the Americas, held in Panama City, in a historic presentation. The Caribbean leader stressed the importance of the rapprochement with the United States but questioned the US policy towards Venezuela.

• Sunday, April 12th 2015 - 08:22 UTC

  Falklands 'raided' by British Special Forces to test the garrison's security, says UK media

  

  British Special forces have carried a raid on the Falkland Islands to test the garrison's security amid fears that Argentina may try to land commandos on the Islands, according to a piece published in the Sunday Express. Apparently such routine exercises are carried out in UK highly sensitive bases and defense compounds.

• Sunday, April 12th 2015 - 08:06 UTC

  Obama announces Brazilian president Rousseff visit to Washington on June 30

  

  US President Barack Obama announced that Brazilian counterpart Dilma Rousseff will visit Washington on June 30, almost two years after she cancelled a trip over a US spying scandal. Obama made the announcement during a bilateral meeting with Rousseff, on the sidelines of the Summit of the Americas in Panama City.

• Sunday, April 12th 2015 - 07:36 UTC

  Argentina's message to UK and US: “utterly ridiculous considering any regional country a threat.”

  

  Addressing the Americas summit in Panama, Argentine president Cristina Fernandez strongly criticized United States policies towards the hemisphere, particularly Venezuela, and expressed 'surprise' at the parallelism between the Caracas/Washington current dispute and the latest round of Falklands' exchanges between London and her government. President Barack Obama was not present during the Argentine leader's speech on Saturday.

• Saturday, April 11th 2015 - 13:12 UTC

  Colombia's FARC reject submission to judicial processes as “common criminals”

  

  Colombia's FARC rebels cannot be submitted to the same judicial processes as “common criminals” under a possible peace deal, the Marxist group said on Friday. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) made the comments after President Juan Manuel Santos said in an interview that the biggest hurdle to signing peace would be getting the group to agree to face justice after 50 years of war.

• Saturday, April 11th 2015 - 13:05 UTC

  Brazil's anti-corruption drive nets three former lawmakers

  

  Brazilian police arrested on Friday three former congressmen broadening their corruption investigation beyond state-run oil giant Petrobras to state lender Caixa Economica Federal and the federal health ministry.

• Saturday, April 11th 2015 - 06:45 UTC

  Falklands: Ambassador Castro refers ironically to Foreign Office summons

  

  Argentine ambassador in London, Alicia Castro complained about being summoned to the Foreign Office over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands dispute revealing she asked the British official if it was “an expression of British humor or a political paradox”, since the UK has failed to comply with international law for the last five decades.