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Montevideo, April 11th 2026 - 03:40 UTC

Politics

  • Saturday, April 11th 2015 - 06:25 UTC

    Obama and Raul Castro shook hands at opening of the Americas summit in Panama

    A US official described the Obama-Castro greeting as an “informal interaction,” adding that “there was not a substantive conversation between the two leaders.”

    US President Barack Obama and Cuba's Raul Castro on Friday shook hands and sat near each other at the historic Panama Summit of the Americas, a new milestone in efforts to shed decades of animosity. Obama and Castro greeted each other as UN chief Ban Ki-moon looked on, before taking their seats with other regional leaders at a Panama City convention center.

  • Saturday, April 11th 2015 - 05:45 UTC

    'Malvinas', center piece of Cristina Fernandez speech at Panama summit

    'Militarization' of the Falklands and UK alleged spying on Argentina, will have priority in the Argentine leader's speech, anticipate Buenos Aires sources

    Argentine President Cristina Fernandez is attending the VII Summit of the Americas in Panama City where she is expected on Saturday to strongly criticize the United Kingdom over the 'militarization' of the Falklands/Malvinas and revelations of massive espionage of Argentina by London.

  • Saturday, April 11th 2015 - 05:38 UTC

    Uruguayan president meets Obama; UNHCR will provide Guantanamo detainees with homes

    Vazquez, Obama and Costa Rica's president Solis during the meeting with social activists and civil leaders

    The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, will provide homes to six former detainees of the US military prison in Guantanamo who have struggled to resettle in Uruguay, the country`s President said on Friday.

  • Friday, April 10th 2015 - 07:14 UTC

    Cuba and US hold historic meeting at highest level in Panama

    Few details have emerged from the meeting between Kerry and Rodriguez. The last comparable event was in 1959, between Fidel Castro and Richard Nixon.

    US Secretary of State John Kerry and Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez have held talks, in the highest level meeting between the two countries in more than half a century. The two were involved in closed-door discussions after arriving in Panama for a summit.

  • Friday, April 10th 2015 - 05:26 UTC

    Fitch Ratings lowered Brazil's investment grade outlook to negative

    “Brazil's three-year growth average of only 1.5%, compared to the 'BBB' median of 3.2%, highlights the structural nature of the under-performance,”

    Fitch Ratings lowered Thursday the outlook on Brazil's investment grade BBB rating to negative, warning that government efforts to turn around the economy risked getting derailed. The Brazilian economy, the world's seventh-largest, stagnated with just 0.1% growth last year as the drag of rising inflation erased the effect of hosting the football World Cup in June and July and gearing up for the Rio Olympics next year.

  • Friday, April 10th 2015 - 05:24 UTC

    Rousseff declares Petrobras 'clean' after purging corrupt managers and practices

    ”Petrobras is still standing. It has cleaned up what it had to clean up and got rid of those who took advantage of their positions to enrich themselves,'' Rousseff said

    Brazil's State-run oil company Petrobras has purged corrupt managers and put a graft scandal behind it, while hitting record output levels from offshore deposits, President Dilma Rousseff said Thursday. The indictment of former senior executives of Petrobras the investigation of dozens of political allies of Rousseff in the multibillion-dollar kickback scandal has thrown her government into crisis and undermined investor confidence in Brazil.

  • Friday, April 10th 2015 - 03:09 UTC

    “UK has no doubt about sovereignty over the Falklands and Islanders right to decide their future”

    “We object strongly to recent statements by the Argentine president and the Argentine ambassador to London, and so summoned the ambassador to account for these”

    The UK Foreign Office summoned Argentine Ambassador Alicia Castro to object recent remarks regarding the Falkland Islands by President Cristina Fernandez and the diplomat based in London. An FCO spokesperson said that Britain has no doubt about its sovereignty over the Falkland Islands and surrounding maritime areas, nor about the Falkland Islanders' right to decide their own future.

  • Friday, April 10th 2015 - 03:03 UTC

    Argentina ordered to pay 405m dollars to nationalized Suez water works

    The French group released a short statement indicating it accepted the judgment and expressing its hope that Argentina complies with the compensation order.

    The World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) has ordered Argentina to pay 405 million dollars to French company Suez, who saw their contract for water and drainage provision cancelled in 2006. The service had been privatized in the nineties during the presidency of Carlos Menem.

  • Friday, April 10th 2015 - 00:44 UTC

    Cristina Fernandez will visit his close new friend Putin on April 22/23

    Putin made an official visit to the Buenos Aires in July 2014, during which time the two countries signed energy and cooperation deals

    Argentine President Cristina Fernández will be heading to Moscow in just under two weeks upon invitation from Russian President Vladimir Putin to mark 130 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries. The announcement of the president’s 22/23 April visit to Russia came amid news that she would also visit Pope Francis in the Vatican on June 7.

  • Friday, April 10th 2015 - 00:25 UTC

    Five Falklands' oil companies accused of violating Argentine law and UN resolutions

    CFK accused the companies of “carrying out hydrocarbon exploration activities on Argentina's continental shelf without obtaining the corresponding authorization”

    Argentina's government on Thursday formally accused five oil companies of conducting illegal exploration work off the British-ruled Falkland Islands, which Buenos Aires claims as its own. The companies are Britain's Rockhopper Exploration plc, Premier Oil plc and Falkland Oil and Gas Ltd; Houston-based Noble Energy Inc.; and Italy's Edison International SpA, Argentina's Foreign Ministry said in a statement.