Politics

• Friday, May 24th 2013 - 06:46 UTC

  Two suspects of the Buenos Aires AMIA bombing, presidential candidate in Iran

  

  Two suspects in the bombing of the AMIA Jewish centre in Buenos Aires are candidates in Iran’s presidential election. Mohsen Rezai and Ali Akbar Velayati, who are believed to have planned the 1994 attack, were among the eight candidates approved for the June 14 election by Iran’s Guardian Council to succeed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

• Friday, May 24th 2013 - 06:25 UTC

  Argentina and Brazil jointly developing satellites for South Atlantic research

  

  Argentina and Brazil will be launching their first two jointly developed scientific satellites for research along the Atlantic coast in a couple of years, according to Brazil’s Science and Technology minister Antonio Raupp.

• Friday, May 24th 2013 - 06:17 UTC

  Drug trafficker in Rio challenge authorities and the pacifying campaign in favelas

  

  Drug traffickers in Rio de Janeiro ordered shops closed in one of its biggest slums, defying efforts to restore order to the city's vast shantytowns and renewing safety concerns in Brazil as it prepares to host the World Cup and Olympics.

• Thursday, May 23rd 2013 - 19:26 UTC

  Indigenous community asks Argentine president to protect their ancestral land

  

  Northern Argentina Qom indigenous community leaders this week held a formal meeting with Supreme Court justices and Formosa government officials. After the hearing, the community leader Félix Díaz requested President Cristina Fernández support in a controversy over land property they have with the provincial authorities in Formosa.

• Thursday, May 23rd 2013 - 07:20 UTC

  Beware inflation: CFK announces “political groups” will keep track of prices in shops

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández (CFK) indirectly acknowledged that inflation has become a major challenge for her government despite the fact that the official reading in twelve months is 10.6%, even when private estimates indicate 24% and expectations have soared to 34%.

• Thursday, May 23rd 2013 - 07:16 UTC

  Europe’s three largest economies call for stricter rules on corporate tax avoidance

  

  Britain, France and Germany called for stricter rules to stop companies such as Google, Apple and Amazon aggressively avoiding taxes in austerity bitten Europe, while acknowledging they had done nothing unlawful.

• Thursday, May 23rd 2013 - 07:06 UTC

  Kirchnerite Senate majority approves whitewashing bill; next week in the Lower House

  

  The Argentine government sponsored whitewashing or ‘tax amnesty’ bill received half approval on Wednesday when the Senate passed the initiative by 39 to 28 votes, a bill which the opposition has labelled ‘immoral’. After seven hours of debate and over twenty speakers the line was clearly drawn between the Kirchnerite group and its allies and the rest of the House.

• Thursday, May 23rd 2013 - 07:01 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez administration limits overseas dollar extractions to a minimum

  

  Continuing with the so called ‘dollar clamp’ Argentine institutions issuing credit cards will further limit the extraction of dollars from automatic cashiers: travellers to neighbouring countries will only be allowed 100 dollars every three months and those visiting non neighbouring countries, 800 dollars per month.

• Thursday, May 23rd 2013 - 02:19 UTC

  Falkland Islands wish for normal neighborly relations with all South American neighbors

  

  By MLA Jan Cheek - I was in The Hague in April on the last stop of my four capital trip planned to spread information about our decisive referendum. After London, a colleague and I visited Brussels before heading off to separate destinations. I visited Dublin and then returned to London to attend the funeral of Baroness Thatcher.

• Thursday, May 23rd 2013 - 02:15 UTC

  Venezuela talk-show host, who revealed infighting among Chavistas takes ‘leave of absence’ in Cuba

  

  A popular pro-Venezuelan government television talk show host took leave of absence alleging ‘medical reasons’ for a few days following the release on Monday of a recording where he can be heard talking with a Cuban intelligence officer about the ‘sea of shit’ which is drowning Chavismo because of internal infighting and corruption.