Politics

• Friday, June 21st 2013 - 06:31 UTC

  Ironic Argentine president attacks Supreme Court: “Cristina will run for Judge in 2015”

  

  Still licking the wounds from her defeat at the Supreme Court that ruled unconstitutional several articles of her attempted and controversial judicial reform, Argentine president Cristina Fernandez ironically said she would be running for judge in 2015 and pledged to continue fighting.

• Friday, June 21st 2013 - 06:26 UTC

  Falklands: “last thing we want is religion inserted in the dispute”

  

  A top Falkland Islands’ politician and Britain's UN envoy shrugged off the idea of the Pope intervening in the long-running sovereignty dispute over the Falklands/Malvinas and South Atlantic islands, as was suggested at one point by Argentine President Cristina Fernandez.

• Friday, June 21st 2013 - 06:19 UTC

  Rousseff calls emergency cabinet meeting; a million people took to the streets in capital cites

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff has called for an urgent meeting of her main ministers Friday morning to address the effects of the current demonstrations through out Brazil which on Thursday evening convened over a million people in eighty cities.

• Friday, June 21st 2013 - 06:16 UTC

  Brazilian political system from surprise to shock as there seems no end to protests

  

  Brazil's biggest protests in two decades intensified on Thursday despite government concessions meant to quell the demonstrations, as over 300,000 people took to the streets of Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia and tens of thousands more flooded an estimated one hundred cities.

• Friday, June 21st 2013 - 06:10 UTC

  Rousseff envoy to Argentina to try and mend trade and investment difficulties

  

  Brazilian Industry and Foreign Trade minister Fernando Pimentel met this week in Buenos Aires with President Cristina Fernandez and members of her cabinet to address several bilateral trade issues that growingly concern President Dilma Rousseff because of Argentina’s increasingly market protection policies.

• Friday, June 21st 2013 - 06:03 UTC

  Main Mercosur obstacle is Argentina, say Brazilian farmers promoting an EU/Brazil trade accord

  

  One of Mercosur ‘main obstacles’ is political and has its origin in Argentina, a country that is ‘extremely protectionist’, said the president of Brazil’s National Agriculture Confederation, CAN, Senator Katia Abreu currently in Brussels promoting the idea of a bilateral Brazil/EU free trade agreement.

• Friday, June 21st 2013 - 06:01 UTC

  Super star Messi and father must appear in court accused of tax fraud in Spain

  

  Argentine soccer super star Lionel Messi and his father Jorge were ordered to appear before a Barcelona court in September after Spanish prosecutors accused the pair of tax fraud.

• Thursday, June 20th 2013 - 16:40 UTC

  C24 ‘no longer relevant’ and is ‘insulting’ to describe BOT/London relations as colonial

  

  The Decolonization Committee is no longer relevant and to describe the relation of British Overseas Territories with the UK as colonial is insulting both for the BOT and London, said a Foreign Office spokeswoman following Thursday session when the Falklands/Malvinas case was debated at the UN C24.

• Thursday, June 20th 2013 - 16:19 UTC

  Falklands’ people happy exercising self-determination and with ‘current relationship with UK’

  

  Falkland Islands representatives told the Special Decolonization Committee that under UN resolutions non self governing territories are entitled to exercise self determination and self government and C24 does not have the responsibility to judge on that right. Likewise the Falklands’ representatives again invited C24 to visit the Islands (seventh time) but with no reply.

• Thursday, June 20th 2013 - 05:56 UTC

  Falklands’ fresh with referendum results will challenge the C24 and Argentina

  

  Argentina and the Falkland Islands meet on Thursday at the UN Decolonization Committee, C24 to discuss the South Atlantic Islands sovereignty dispute, and contrary to last year when the big show was the attendance of President Cristina Fernandez, this time it will be the Falklands’ turn with the indisputable fresh results of the March referendum and their right to self-determination.