Politics

• Monday, October 21st 2013 - 06:49 UTC

  EU and Canada sign agreement expected to increase bilateral trade by over 20%

  

  A landmark trade deal reached between the European Union (EU) and Canada, that will benefit the UK economy and businesses by over £1.3 billion a year, has been welcomed by Prime Minister David Cameron.

• Monday, October 21st 2013 - 06:21 UTC

  Venezuela clamps down on 'currency tourism' with random checks at airports

  

  The 'dollar-scarce' Venezuelan government is trying to clamp down on what it calls “currency tourism” with random checks of passengers leaving the country. The officials at the country's main airports are not guards or police but bureaucrats at state currency board Cadivi investigating whether travelers' documents match their requests for hard-to-get dollars.

• Monday, October 21st 2013 - 06:03 UTC

  Inspirator of Venezuelan Socialism anticipates Maduro won't make it to April 2014

  

  The man credited with pioneering the idea of 21st Century socialism, which was championed and put into application in Venezuela under Hugo Chávez, recently made a damning condemnation of current Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

• Monday, October 21st 2013 - 05:48 UTC

  Argentina established a TAC of 312.000 tons of hake for the current year

  

  Argentina's National Fisheries Coordination Agency reported that the Federal Fisheries Council (CFP) established fishing quotas for hake (Merluccius hubbsi) for the current year: 277,000 tons for the south area (south of parallel 41°SL) and 35,000 tons for the north area (north of parallel 41°SL).

• Monday, October 21st 2013 - 05:30 UTC

  Brazil confident Paraguay will be returning to Mercosur before the end of the year

  

  Brazil trusts Paraguay will fully return to Mercosur before the end of the year, said Brazil's Executive foreign policy advisor Marco Aurelio Garcia in a Sunday edition interview with the influential Folha de Sao Paulo.

• Monday, October 21st 2013 - 05:25 UTC

  Brazil will not return Bolivian Senator who is wanted by the government of President Morales

  

  Brazil will not return opposition Senator Roger Pinto to Bolivia, who last August fled the country with the help from Brazilian diplomats, said President Dilma Rousseff advisor on foreign affairs Marco Aurelio Garcia.

• Saturday, October 19th 2013 - 18:26 UTC

  Opposition to Cristina Fernandez consolidates for mid-term election in two weeks

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez candidate for the 27 October mid term election in the crucial Buenos Aires province is trailing by eight points his main rival, Sergio Massa who is leading with 41.2% of vote intention according to the latest public opinion poll released by Poliarquía, one of the country’s most respected pollsters.

• Saturday, October 19th 2013 - 18:04 UTC

  Rousseff stimuli policies and government intervention in the economy questioned

  

  Brazil's economic debate is heating up after three former central bankers this week criticized the economic policies of President Dilma Rousseff, saying she is making Latin America's biggest economy less efficient and more sluggish.

• Saturday, October 19th 2013 - 17:53 UTC

  In show of Latam unity Chile is elected to the UN Security Council

  

  The United Nations General Assembly elected this week Chad, Chile, Lithuania, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia to serve as non-permanent members on the Security Council for two-year terms beginning on 1 January 2014. The five countries obtained the required two-thirds majority of those Member States present and voting in the 193-member Assembly.

• Saturday, October 19th 2013 - 17:28 UTC

  Chilean students warn presidential candidates education reform is pending

  

  In an anticipation of what is waiting for whoever wins next month’s presidential election in Chile, thousands of students again took to the streets to demand education reform as they have been doing for several years now.