Politics

• Wednesday, June 5th 2013 - 19:21 UTC

  Uruguay former president calls on Latam to advance in agreements with the US

  

  “The time for rhetoric exercises has run out”, said Uruguayan former president Tabare Vazquez during a presentation before the Latin American Studies Association, LASA, in Washington where he emphasized the need for Latinamerican countries to advance in agreements with the United States.

• Wednesday, June 5th 2013 - 17:49 UTC

  Uruguay ‘can’t ignore (Mercosur) reality’ and is applying for full Pacific Alliance membership

  

  Vice-president and acting president Danilo Astori strongly defended the Uruguayan government’s intention of joining the Pacific Alliance, next to Chile, Colombia, Peru and Mexico, claiming that Mercosur has fallen into a state of ‘inactivity’ but also rejected point blank statements from Brazilian diplomacy contrary to such a move.

• Wednesday, June 5th 2013 - 08:37 UTC

  Obama and Piñera in the White House renew push for a trans-Pacific trade agreement

  

  US President Barack Obama and Chilean President Sebastian Piñera renewed their push for a trans-Pacific trade agreement at a meeting in the White House Oval Office on Tuesday that also touched on education and renewable energy.

• Wednesday, June 5th 2013 - 08:29 UTC

  Prosecutor Nisman ready to quit if accused Iranian officials surrender to face trial

  

  Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman responsible for the investigation into the 1994 bombing of a Jewish institution in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people and which points as culprits to several Iranian officials said he will step down if those Iranians named in the report “surrender to face trial”.

• Wednesday, June 5th 2013 - 08:19 UTC

  Argentina first of 66 countries to sign UN Arms Trade Treaty; US on hold

  

  Representatives of sixty six countries lined up at U.N. headquarters in New York to sign the first international treaty to regulate the 85 billion dollars global conventional arms trade, a landmark event. However doubts exist about whether the treaty will work.

• Wednesday, June 5th 2013 - 08:16 UTC

  Fearing lesser global liquidity, Brazil eliminates tax on foreign capital inflows

  

  Brazil will scrap a tax on foreign investments in local debt, a surprise move that could help stop a sharp depreciation of the country's currency which lost 7.6% in the past three months and that threatens to stoke already high inflation in Latin America's largest economy.

• Wednesday, June 5th 2013 - 08:05 UTC

  Inflation in Uruguay falls for the fourth month running but still above target

  

  Consumer prices in Uruguay during May increased 0.32% and 8.06% in the last twelve months which is still above the annual top target range of 6%, but on the positive side for the fourth month running inflation has been decreasing, according to the latest release from the stats office INE.

• Wednesday, June 5th 2013 - 07:56 UTC

  Falklands: Uruguay lawmaker calls for direct links with ‘kelpers’ and a change in government’s policy

  

  Lawmaker Jaime Trobo invited his peers in the Lower House to review the Uruguayan government’s position regarding the Malvinas Islands and without questioning Argentine sovereignty, establish close trade and human links with the Islanders, as in the past, eliminating the ‘sanitary ring’ imposed by the current Argentine government.

• Wednesday, June 5th 2013 - 07:46 UTC

  Brazil indigenous peoples clash with farmers and dams builders: demand respect for ancestral lands

  

  Lawmakers from the Brazilian farm state of Mato Grosso do Sul asked President Dilma Rousseff's government to send troops to end land invasions by Indigenous people claiming their ancestral territory.

• Wednesday, June 5th 2013 - 07:40 UTC

  Delta CEO appointed new IATTA chairman; top of the agenda environment

  

  The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced that Richard H. Anderson, CEO of Delta Air Lines, has assumed his duties as Chairman of the IATA Board of Governors.