Politics

• Tuesday, September 17th 2013 - 06:45 UTC

  Falklands receives visit of lawmakers from Panama’s National Assembly

  

  A group of Panama National Assembly members has arrived in the Falkland Islands for a week long visit. The party is headed by Foreign Affairs Commission president Dalia Bernal and includes Yaniel Abrego, president of the Education Commission, lawmaker Renaul Dominguez and Jorge Gantes legal advisor of the Foreign Affaris Committee.

• Tuesday, September 17th 2013 - 06:40 UTC

  FAO praises Argentina’s law on rural land as an example for Latam countries

  

  The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) praised Argentina’s Law on Rural Lands (Ley de Tierras Rurales), stating that the measure could serve as an example for the region. FAO has invited Argentine representatives to expound their experience with the law at a workshop to be staged next week in the Colombian capital of Bogotá.

• Monday, September 16th 2013 - 01:29 UTC

  Leading Spanish bank ready to lend 10bn dollars for infrastructure in Brazil

  

  Following a meeting with President Dilma Rousseff, Banco Santander Chairman Emilio Botin said that the Spanish bank has 10 billion dollars available to finance infrastructure projects in Brazil. He also anticipated that loan book growth at Banco Santander Brasil SA would be up about 10% in 2013.

• Monday, September 16th 2013 - 01:26 UTC

  Colombia/Nicaragua maritime dispute reignites, despite International Court ruling

  

  President Juan Manuel Santos presented before Colombia’s constitutional court a demand against the Pact of Bogotá arguing that a recent ruling from the International Court of Justice on a maritime dispute with Nicaragua does not comply with the Colombian constitution.

• Monday, September 16th 2013 - 01:25 UTC

  Argentine official inflation 0.8% and 6.6% in eight months despite price agreements

  

  Argentina's Consumer Price Index (IPC) was of 0.8% in August, according to the INDEC statistics bureau, totalling 6.6% this year. Price hikes were mainly seen in food and beverage, household equipment and maintenance sectors. Meanwhile, entertainment costs went down in August.

• Monday, September 16th 2013 - 01:19 UTC

  Cartes on a two-day visit to Pacific Alliance member Chile to promote trade and investments

  

  Paraguayan president Horacio Cartes begins on Monday a two-day visit to Chile where he is scheduled to meet his peer Sebastián Piñera and hold a round of talks with business people inviting them to invest in Paraguay. At the end of the month Cartes will be flying to Brasilia to meet President Dilma Rousseff.

• Sunday, September 15th 2013 - 20:18 UTC

  Summers pulls out of the race to succeed Bernanke at the Federal Reserve

  

  Lawrence “Larry” Summers, the former Treasury Secretary who served Presidents Clinton and Obama, called President Barack Obama on Sunday to say he is pulling out of the race to succeed Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve.

• Sunday, September 15th 2013 - 20:16 UTC

  Pope’s meets with the father of liberation theology; Vatican media praises the Peruvian priest

  

  Pope Francis' September 11 meeting with Dominican Father Gustavo Gutierrez was an informal one, held in the in the pope's residence, the Domus Sanctae Marthae, and not listed on his official schedule., reports the Catholic News Service. However the news that Pope Francis had received the 85-year old Peruvian priest, who is widely considered the father of liberation theology, has excited interest far beyond the Vatican's walls.

• Sunday, September 15th 2013 - 19:22 UTC

  The hurdles faced by Bachelet to achieve her promise of reforming Chilean education

  Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet legacy lives heavily in a country which has had a spectacular economic performance since the return of democracy, but remains lame in several social and political issues.

• Sunday, September 15th 2013 - 19:18 UTC

  RFA Wave Knight in major seizure of drugs in the Caribbean

  

  Royal Fleet Auxiliary support ship Wave Knight has helped seize an estimated £6.5 million worth of drugs from traffickers in the Caribbean. In a multi-agency operation involving UK and US assets, the fishing vessel Miss Tiffany was detected and one of Wave Knight’s boats was launched to investigate.