Politics

• Tuesday, May 14th 2013 - 23:00 UTC

  New WTO chief says it’s time for ‘modulating’ ambition and pushing protectionism back

  

  Brazil’s Roberto Azevedo vowed to revive the deadlocked World Trade Organisation, as he was confirmed this week as the incoming leader of the body which sets the rules for global commerce.

• Tuesday, May 14th 2013 - 18:58 UTC

  Argentine inflation controversy: court vindicates private stats agencies

  

  An Argentine appeals court threw out the fines that Domestic Trade Secretary Guillermo Moreno had slapped on private firms that issued inflation estimates that were much higher than the government’s official rate.

• Tuesday, May 14th 2013 - 18:50 UTC

  UK MoD challenges statistics on suicides among Falklands’ veterans

  

  The claim that more Falklands veterans have killed themselves since the war ended than died in action is not borne out by statistics, a study says. Some 255 UK personnel died in action, but a veterans group has said the suicide toll since 1982 exceeds that.

• Tuesday, May 14th 2013 - 06:58 UTC

  Under Brazilian suggestion, Maduro says he is prepared for political dialogue with Capriles

  

  Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro said he is prepared for political dialogue with the leader of the opposition Henrique Capriles to ensure peace in the country, even if it means “talking to the devil”. He also warned that United States must “give a huge leap forward” if relations as equals are to be advanced between Caracas and Washington.

• Tuesday, May 14th 2013 - 06:49 UTC

  Whitewashing draft bill and Moreno have US ‘blue’ dollar market in Argentina flat

  

  Trading of the ‘blue’ or parallel dollar in Argentina remained flat on Monday for a second day following last week’s events when the 10 Pesos barrier was broken and the government reacted with a tax amnesty or whitewashing draft bill promising all dollar assets holders a new clean record and no questions asked if they turn their greenbacks into government bonds or promissory notes.

• Tuesday, May 14th 2013 - 06:40 UTC

  A British-American tax and trade agenda

  

  By PM David Cameron - The Wall Street Journal - Britain and America have a proud history of working together to meet the great challenges of the day. Ours is a partnership without parallel, rooted in our values of freedom and enterprise—advancing not just Britain’s and America’s interests but the good of people around the world.

• Tuesday, May 14th 2013 - 06:08 UTC

  Venezuela’s only opposition television network sold to a group close to the government

  

  Globovision, Venezuela's only opposition television network which had a long history of clashes with the populist government of deceased President Hugo Chavez and his Bolivarian revolution, was sold Monday and will change its critical coverage, network officials said.
  “This channel already has been sold off,” the network's website said in a statement.

• Monday, May 13th 2013 - 22:34 UTC

  China to the rescue of Argentina with a 10 billion dollars equivalent swap

  

  Argentina is negotiating with China a new 10 billon dollars equivalent swap of international reserves support based on the experience of 2009 when the global financial crisis. The new accord should theoretically help Argentina strengthen its international position vis-à-vis the run on the dollar (or the flight from the Peso) and which has cost the Central bank 4 billion dollars so far this year.

• Monday, May 13th 2013 - 04:45 UTC

  Falklands: MPs blast Spanish MEP for comments on the Islands sovereignty

  

  A senior British member of Parliament blasted as ‘outrageous’ claims that the European Parliament does not recognize British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands. The case first surfaced when MercoPress reported that a Spanish member of the European parliament on a recent visit to Argentina said that “British sovereignty over the Islands as such is not accepted”.

• Monday, May 13th 2013 - 04:39 UTC

  Malvinas' globe in UK stores triggers strong reactions from Falklands’ veterans

  

  It’s not the first time it has happened mainly in Argentina where maps, stationery, climate and navigational charts and even school books related to the Islas Malvinas have been found referred and printed as the Falkland Islands to the fury of the Kirchner ‘Penguin’ governments.