Politics

• Monday, September 15th 2014 - 04:00 UTC

  PM Cameron promises to hunt down IS murderers of British hostage

  

  Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron chaired a meeting of the government's emergency response committee on Sunday under growing pressure to sanction air strikes after an Islamic State video showed the beheading of a British hostage.

• Saturday, September 13th 2014 - 07:02 UTC

  Bachelet government seek to repeal dictator Pinochet's Amnesty Law

  

  As Chileans commemorated the 41 st anniversary of the 1973 military coup, Justice Minister José Antonio Gomez announced that the government of Michelle Bachelet will seek to repeal the Amnesty Law, a legacy of the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.

• Saturday, September 13th 2014 - 06:57 UTC

  Argentina with two August inflation measures: the official Indec, 1,3% and the congressional rate, 2.65%

  

  Argentina has two consumer prices indexes, and they differ considerably. In effect during August the so called congressional index doubled the official rate: the National Urban Consumer Price (IPCNU) released by the stats office Indec, in the eighth month of the year was 1,3%, which means inflation in the first eight months stands at 18,2%.

• Saturday, September 13th 2014 - 06:44 UTC

  Argentina guarantees car makers sufficient dollars to meet production target

  

  Car makers in Argentina have sufficient dollars to meet production and sales targets, the government said Friday, a day after General Motors Co announced it had suspended exports from Brazil to its Argentine unit due to a hard currency shortage.

• Saturday, September 13th 2014 - 05:37 UTC

  Falklands and the ”unwelcome visits from (Argentine) aircraft”

  

  Gerald Cheek, now retired from his position as Falkland Islands Director of Civil Aviation, has addressed a letter to the Penguin News clarifying some details about the 'Unwelcome visits from aircraft', clearly in reference to episodes of Argentine aircraft incursion and landing in the Islands.

• Saturday, September 13th 2014 - 05:13 UTC

  Venezuela quietly working to ensure a seat at the UN Security Council

  

  Venezuela’s populist government has quietly secured the backing of Latin America and the Caribbean to obtain a diplomatic trophy that long eluded the late Hugo Chavez: a seat on the United Nations Security Council.

• Friday, September 12th 2014 - 06:55 UTC

  With the new bill “Argentina wants to pay, can pay and will pay all contracted debts”

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández signed into law the Sovereign Debt bill, which changes the payment location of Argentine bondholders and which was approved by Congress early Thursday morning after 18 hours of debate.

• Friday, September 12th 2014 - 06:46 UTC

  Falklands Islands' minefield priority areas are named as bidders visit

  

  Four minefield clusters have been pinpointed as priority areas for the next clearance phase in the Falkland Islands. Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Advisor for minefield issues Alistair Craib confirmed this week that Priority 1 is Minefield 59 on either sides of the MPA Road near Wall Mountain and Mount Harriet.

• Friday, September 12th 2014 - 06:40 UTC

  Chile's military coup anniversary exposes a divided country

  

  “In Chile there's no room, and there can be no room, for violence or fear,” President Michelle Bachelet said Thursday at a ceremony commemorating the 41st anniversary of the 1973 military coup and several days after a bomb blast injured 14 people in this capital. The 17-year military dictatorship remains controversial and a rift in Chilean society.

• Friday, September 12th 2014 - 06:28 UTC

  Argentina's situation “will not develop into a regional financial crisis”, says UNCTAD

  

  United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said that while Argentina was facing potential financial instability, its solvency and the sound macroeconomic fundamentals in other countries of the region “should prevent the shock from developing into a regional financial crisis.”