Politics

• Tuesday, October 15th 2013 - 17:58 UTC

  Venezuelan retired officers justify ‘military action’ against Maduro and claim it’s not a coup d’état

  

  A group of 45 Venezuelan retired top officers among which a dozen generals and admirals and a former defence minister have published an open statement in which they accuse the government of President Nicolas Maduro of having broken the country’s “constitutional thread” and thus support a military action which, they say “would not be a coup d’état’.

• Tuesday, October 15th 2013 - 14:28 UTC

  St Vincent and Grenadines reiterates relations and political support for Taiwan

  

  St. Vincent and the Grenadines has reiterated its support for Taiwan to be recognized by various international agencies saying the Asian country has done much to improve the socio-economic well being of people in developing countries.

• Tuesday, October 15th 2013 - 08:11 UTC

  Release of Margaret Thatcher personal papers of 1983

  

  Former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's 1983 papers were opened at the Churchill College Archives Centre (Cambridge) and online on the website of the Margaret Thatcher Foundation in October 2013.

• Tuesday, October 15th 2013 - 00:08 UTC

  IMF shocks orthodoxy: tax the rich and target multinationals to fight budget deficits

  

  Tax the rich and better target the multinationals: The IMF has set off shock waves in Washington by suggesting countries fight budget deficits by raising taxes. Tucked inside a report on public debt, the new tack was mostly eclipsed by worries about the US budget crisis, but did not escape the notice of experts and nongovernmental organizations.

• Tuesday, October 15th 2013 - 00:05 UTC

  Nobel in Economics to three Americans trying to unravel 2008 financial crisis

  

  Eugene F. Fama, Robert J. Shiller and Lars Peter Hansen shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for at times conflicting research on how financial markets work and assets such as stocks are priced. The three economists, all Americans, “laid the foundation for the current understanding of asset prices,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, said in Stockholm.

• Monday, October 14th 2013 - 23:47 UTC

  Trade agreement with EU “depends on Mercosur” warns top EC official

  

  The conclusion of a trade and cooperation agreement between the European Union and Mercosur ‘only depends on the bloc’ said the European Commission Vice-President for Industry and Entrepreneurship Antonio Tajani.

• Monday, October 14th 2013 - 23:43 UTC

  Uruguay accuses Argentina of violating Mercosur cultural accords by demanding work visas for artists

  

  Uruguay’s Director of Culture, Hugo Achugar accused Argentina of violating Mercosur cultural accords from the moment it is demanding work visas for Uruguayan artists performing in Argentina.

• Monday, October 14th 2013 - 23:40 UTC

  Bolivian president claims US and Pacific Alliance conspiring to divide UNASUR

  

  Bolivian president Evo Morales claimed that the Pacific Alliance (Colombia, Chile, Peru and Mexico) is part of a major conspiration plotted “from the north” and directed to divide the Union of South American Nations, Unasur.

• Monday, October 14th 2013 - 05:38 UTC

  Brazil considers ‘absurd’ some of Mercosur limitations and points to Argentina

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff said it was ‘absurd’ that in the context of Mercosur the free circulation of goods was non existent and expressed disappointment with Argentina’s obstacles, but nevertheless insisted dialogue was the only valid instrument to overcome trade differences.

• Monday, October 14th 2013 - 05:35 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez resting in Olivos; 30 days of strict recovery

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández, 60, was discharged Sunday midday from the Buenos Aires Favaloro Foundation hospital where she underwent successful surgery on a ‘subdural chronic haematoma’ after being given the all-clear from doctors.