Politics

• Wednesday, September 18th 2013 - 21:27 UTC

  Former Public Security minister, new Argentine ambassador before OAS

  

  The new Permanent Representative of Argentina to the Organization of American States (OAS), Nilda Garré, presented credentials that accredit her to the hemispheric institution, during a ceremony held at the OAS headquarters in Washington, D.C.

• Wednesday, September 18th 2013 - 20:55 UTC

  FARC reiterate call for a Colombia truth commission at Havana peace talks

  

  Colombia’s Marxist rebel organization, FARC reiterated on Wednesday its call to the Colombian government to establish a truth commission to deal with the history of the internal conflict in the country that goes back to 1964.

• Wednesday, September 18th 2013 - 20:50 UTC

  EC fact-finding mission to Gibraltar/Spain arrives next September 25

  

  The European Commission will send a fact-finding mission to the Gibraltar-Spain border on September 25 to assess Spanish customs controls and their impact on freedom of movement. The date for the mission was confirmed on Wednesday following days of wrangling over the scope of its mandate, reports the Gibraltar Chronicle.

• Wednesday, September 18th 2013 - 20:45 UTC

  Gibraltar and Spain trade unions call for an end to border crossing dispute

  

  The Gibraltar branch of Unite the Union has joined forces with Spanish unions Comisiones Obreras [CC.OO] and Unión General de Trabajadores [UGT] to underscore their collective concern at the deterioration of cross-border relations because of the on-going dispute.

• Wednesday, September 18th 2013 - 20:33 UTC

  Fed decides to keep stimulus: fears of economy sluggishness and still slow labour market

  

  In a surprise move after a two-day meeting the US Federal Reserve said on Wednesday that it would continue buying bonds at a rate of 85 billion dollars monthly and expressed concern that a sharp rise in borrowing costs in recent months could weigh on the economy.

• Wednesday, September 18th 2013 - 20:30 UTC

  Paraguay businesses react to Cartes words: ‘first find the scoundrels and only then the claims’

  

  Paraguay’s Industrial Union, UIP, reacted strongly to President Horacio Cartes claims that the private sector was responsible for much that is wrong in government, and suggested an ‘intelligence work’ in the civil service to catch the ‘scoundrels and corrupt’.

• Wednesday, September 18th 2013 - 19:43 UTC

  Argentina’s YPF main partner, Chevron, blasted by Correa who is expected in Buenos Aires

  

  A couple of days before Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa is set to arrive in Argentina he sank his right hand into the bushes of the Ecuadorean Amazon and then showed it to the dozens of journalists summoned for the demonstration: it was covered in oil.

• Wednesday, September 18th 2013 - 07:05 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez on the trail campaign ahead of the October mid-term election

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández was again on the campaign trail on Tuesday participating in several inaugurations and political rallies at the province of Buenos Aires in support of her candidate running for Congress in October’s mid term ballot, Martin Insurralde.

• Wednesday, September 18th 2013 - 06:54 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas: Argentina recalls its major UN diplomatic success in 1964/65

  

  Tierra del Fuego media recalled that on 17 September 1964 a United Nations sub-committee unanimously recommended that the “Malvinas case” be included among issues referred to Decolonisation and thus admits ‘the existence of sovereignty dispute over the Falklands and other South Atlantic islands’.

• Wednesday, September 18th 2013 - 06:46 UTC

  Controversial figure named to advisory board of the Euro-zone leading bank

  

  Santander, the Euro zone's biggest bank, has hired Rodrigo Rato, under investigation in connection with allegations of fraud at state-rescued lender Bankia when he was chairman, to its international advisory board.