Politics

Monday, September 30th 2013 - 21:40 UTC
The Shale Boom, Just Getting Started: Interview with Tyler Cowen

Thanks to the shale boom, markets already perceive the trade balance optimizing, energy prices are cheaper than they would otherwise be and we've even cut carbon emissions. And we are only getting started, according Tyler Cowen, New York Times best-selling author and one of the most influential economists of the decade.
Monday, September 30th 2013 - 19:11 UTC
Chilean military officers will be transferred to less luxurious jail despite suicide of an inmate

Former president and opposition candidate Michelle Bachelet, as well as Evelyn Matthei, candidate of the conservative ruling coalition for the coming 17 November elections coincided in describing the death of retired general Odlanier Mena Salinas who killed himself as ‘tragic’.
Monday, September 30th 2013 - 19:06 UTC
Outgoing Piñera announces a 2014 tight budget for the next government

The Chilean government plans to raise spending 3.9% next year, the second-smallest increase since 2003 and below the central bank’s forecast for economic growth in 2014. The budget will focus on employment, education, crime, poverty, children, pensioners and infrastructure, President Sebastian Piñera said in a televised address without giving details.
Monday, September 30th 2013 - 17:03 UTC
Argentina/Iran meeting in Geneva in November to address the AMIA bombing

Iran and Argentina have confirmed they will be meeting in November in Geneva to continue discussions on the Memorandum of Understanding to jointly probe the bombing of the AMIA Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires 19 years ago. The information was announced following two meetings held on Saturday between Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif at the UN headquarters in New York.
Monday, September 30th 2013 - 17:00 UTC
Argentina hopes US Supreme Court hears its case with the hedge funds

The US Supreme Court was scheduled to meet behind closed doors on Monday to decide whether to hear a high-profile appeal by Argentina over its battle with hedge funds that refused to take part in two debt restructurings that sprang from the country's 2002 default.
Monday, September 30th 2013 - 16:32 UTC
Paraguay’s Cartes in Brazil to discuss trade, security, cooperation and Mercosur

Paraguay president Horacio Cartes arrived Monday morning to Brazil for a round of talks with President Dilma Rousseff which includes political, economic, energy, trade and security issues, plus the full return of Paraguay to Mercosur, an intricate matter dating back to events of June 2012.
Monday, September 30th 2013 - 16:29 UTC
UK minister in Brazil at scientific research and education program signing ceremonies

UK Minister of State for Latin America at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office Hugo Swire is in Porto Alegre, south Brazil where he will attend the signing for a Memorandum of Understanding between the King’s College and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul on biological research.
Saturday, September 28th 2013 - 05:08 UTC
Petrobras makes ‘beautiful’ discovery and generates a new promising oil province

Brazil's Petrobras and its Indian partners have made a “beautiful” oil discovery off Brazil's northeast coast, Sergipe-Alagoas basin, and it will produce a minimum 100,000 barrels of petroleum a day starting in 2018, the company's CEO said on Friday.
Saturday, September 28th 2013 - 04:57 UTC
Malvinas/Gibraltar: Garcia Margallo admits coincidences, but “no joint actions”

Spain will not be involved in ‘joint actions’ with Argentina regarding sovereignty claims over Gibraltar and Malvinas, said on Friday Spanish Foreign minister Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo, arguing there had been ‘misinterpretations’ in the Argentine version of the bilateral ministerial meeting and which was first denied by the Moncla Palace.
Saturday, September 28th 2013 - 04:48 UTC
Rousseff is running for re-election: turns on her twitter after three years of silence

Breaking almost three years of silence from her official Twitter account, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Friday sent a series of tweets joking with a famous parody account and defending Brazil’s economy.