Politics

Saturday, June 1st 2013 - 17:34 UTC
Argentina dollar markets waiting for implementation of the ‘whitewashing bill’

The US dollar in Argentina’s parallel or ‘blue market’ finished on Friday the month of May down 6.4% from the 9.40 Pesos at the end of April, including a slight drop in the last day of trading, that took it to 8.75 Pesos and 8.80 Pesos, buying and selling price.
Saturday, June 1st 2013 - 17:32 UTC
Buenos Aires city mayor challenges CFK by launching ‘a price index audited’ by the civil society.

Buenos Aires City Mayor Mauricio Macri launched on Friday a price index to be “permanently audited by the civil society” in Argentina’s capital, in a move that steps up the pressure on the inflation controversy surrounding President Cristina Fernandez administration.
Saturday, June 1st 2013 - 17:22 UTC
Chile’s measures to appease Mapuches are failing; more violence expected

Chile’s Araucania Prosecutor this week filed charged against Celestino Córdova Tránsito, an indigenous Mapuche who stands accused of arson leading to the death of an elderly couple of landowners last year. Francisco Ljubetic is also charging Córdova Tránsito with terrorist acts. Córdova Tránsito (26) is currently jailed pending trial.
Saturday, June 1st 2013 - 03:38 UTC
Cristina Fernandez with her mind set on October elections launches the 500 frozen-prices list

The Argentine government has made public the list of the 500 products with ‘frozen prices’, until next October when mid term elections are scheduled. Consumers can check the information online at the website of the state news agency Télam and with the sites of several of the main supermarkets of the country.
Saturday, June 1st 2013 - 03:23 UTC
Europe accepts austerity must be less austere amid concerns over stagnant growth

The European Commission has said it will allow some EU member states to slow their pace of austerity cuts, amid concerns over growth. France, Spain, Poland, Portugal, the Netherlands and Slovenia are all being given more time to complete their austerity plans.
Saturday, June 1st 2013 - 03:10 UTC
Germany fearing a ‘lost generation’, more conciliatory with youth unemployment

Chancellor Angela Merkel, stung by criticism she is cracking the whip of fiscal discipline in Europe, has shown a more caring approach by pledging to fight record youth unemployment on the crisis-hit continent.
Saturday, June 1st 2013 - 03:04 UTC
Europe unable to counter increasing youth unemployment

Unemployment among the under 25s rose in April to 23.5% within the EU and 24.4% across the Euro area. The rates released by EU statistics office Eurostat show an increase on the same month last year, when youth unemployment reached 22.6% across both zones.
Saturday, June 1st 2013 - 02:39 UTC
OAS warns about ‘distinct categories of citizens’ in terms of access and quality to basic services

The Organization of American States (OAS), Secretary General José Miguel Insulza, highlighted the “important progress” made in the region’s democratization in recent decades, but also warned about worrying “risks of deconstruction” which are creating ‘distinct categories of citizens’ particularly in terms of access and quality to basic services such as education, health and security.
Saturday, June 1st 2013 - 02:33 UTC
“All we want is for things to go well for Venezuela”, Santos replies to Maduro

Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos on Friday dismissed as “preposterous” Venezuelan charges that his government is backing a conspiracy to destabilize the leftist-ruled neighbor.
Saturday, June 1st 2013 - 02:29 UTC
Gibraltar claims C24 is ‘failing miserably’ in its task of decolonising territories

Gibraltar veteran Minister Joe Bossano launched a scathing attack on to the record of the UN Committee of Decolonization or C24 claiming it is consistently falling to do the work it is tasked with: decolonising the territories on its list.