Politics

• Friday, May 22nd 2015 - 08:36 UTC

  A quarter of Argentine children is poor compared to 10.8% for the whole population

  

  A quarter of children below the age of four in Argentina is poor and almost five in ten babies less than six months have malnutrition problems according to the Center for Implementation of Equity and Growth Public Policies, CIPPEC. The data was provided in the CIPPEC website dedicated to make first infancy a priority through a childcare integral policy.

• Friday, May 22nd 2015 - 05:49 UTC

  Brazil and Uruguay on an “urgent and necessary” redesign of Mercosur

  

  Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez said it was “urgent and necessary” to redesign Mercosur so as to give its members greater 'trade flexibility'. Vazquez made the statements following Thursday meeting with his peer Dilma Rousseff in Brasilia and underlined “it would be naive to admit that Mercosur as it stands currently, is satisfactory”.

• Friday, May 22nd 2015 - 05:42 UTC

  Lagarde preaches fiscal discipline in one of Brazil's most dangerous slums

  

  The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) encouraged Brazil on Thursday to pursue fiscal discipline, saying it was needed to protect social programs benefitting the poorest members of society. IMF chief Christine Lagarde made the link during a visit to Complexo do Alemao, one of Rio's largest and most dangerous slums and an example of the challenges the country faces as it struggles with low growth and high inflation

• Thursday, May 21st 2015 - 07:27 UTC

  Uruguay and Brazil summit to consider a more flexible Mercosur

  

  Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez will be meeting his peer, Dilma Rousseff in Brasilia this Thursday to address a dense bilateral agenda, and more specifically the workings and future of Mercosur, in search for a more flexible group, open to agreements with third parties.

• Thursday, May 21st 2015 - 06:56 UTC

  Iranian officers' interviews, allegedly linked to AMIA bombing, attract world media attention

  

  The interviews with former Iranian officials accused of the 1994 AMIA bombing of a Jewish organization in downtown Buenos Aires aired this week by Argentine news channel C5N were covered by a number of international media outlets.

• Thursday, May 21st 2015 - 06:45 UTC

  Venezuelan government targets opposition leader Capriles for making “false allegations”

  

  Barely one week after Venezuela’s President of the National Assembly of Venezuela Diosdado Cabello filed a defamation suit against 22 media executives and editors for publishing reports linking him to an international drug-trafficking, another high-level minister announced they would be filing suit against opposition leader Henrique Capriles for making “false allegations.”

• Thursday, May 21st 2015 - 06:40 UTC

  Pope Francis prays for Argentina on the country's National Day

  

  Pope Francis has sent a letter to President Cristina Fernández to mark festivities for May week, during which Argentina commemorates the formation of the First Patriotic Government on 25 May 1810.

• Thursday, May 21st 2015 - 06:26 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez launches May Revolution week with strong messages

  

  President Cristina Fernández led on Wednesday a rally in the Buenos Aires City central railway station of Retiro where she praised the renovation of Argentina's railway system in an event that was part of the official celebrations marking a new anniversary of the May Revolution, which in 1810 was the beginning of the country's road to independence.

• Wednesday, May 20th 2015 - 22:09 UTC

  Falklands: “We are an Overseas Territory, very content with the status and endorsed in the 2013 referendum”

  

  The Falkland Islands are very pleased with their current political and democratic status based on the UN charter and confirmed in the 2013 referendum, enjoy a prosperous economy with emphasis on social policies and environment conservation and have good neighborly relations with nearby countries, except for Argentina that “continues to ignore our people's right to self-determination and covet our territory”.

• Wednesday, May 20th 2015 - 05:44 UTC

  Beijing to the rescue of sliding Brazil: 53bn dollars in trade, finance and investment

  

  Beijing has come to the rescue of Brazil's slumping economy with trade, finance and investment deals worth at least 53 billion dollars in energy, mining, aviation and upgrading of dilapidated infrastructure.