Politics

• Wednesday, August 15th 2012 - 09:02 UTC

  Puricelli praises defence links with Chile and support for Argentine Malvinas claim

  

  Relations with Chile are an example of the fabulous transformation of regional politics in the last three decades, said Argentine Defence minister Arturo Puricelli during a conference at the Chilean military school.

• Wednesday, August 15th 2012 - 08:54 UTC

  Brazilian court listens to natives claims and suspends work on Belo Monte dam

  

  A Brazilian federal court has ordered the immediate suspension of work on the controversial Belo Monte hydroelectric plant, ruling that indigenous communities were not consulted. It was set to be the world's third-largest dam.

• Wednesday, August 15th 2012 - 08:50 UTC

  Students and police clash in Santiago; mayor threatens to cancel protestors scholarships

  

  For a third day running Chilean riot police broke up protests by students who had taken control of several high schools in the capital Santiago to demand education reform.

• Tuesday, August 14th 2012 - 22:10 UTC

  US, France and Mexico considering G20 emergency meeting to address soaring grain prices

  

  US, France and Mexico are planning talks to consider whether an emergency meeting is needed to tackle the soaring price of grain. The three will hold a conference call at the end of this month after the worst US drought in 50 years threatens to cause a sharp rise in the cost of staple crops.

• Tuesday, August 14th 2012 - 22:01 UTC

  Standard Chartered CEO in US to discuss money laundering allegations

  

  Standard Chartered chief executive is in New York to negotiate directly with the US regulator that accused it of “scheming” to hide 250bn dollars of transactions with Iran. The regulator will hold a hearing on Wednesday to decide whether to revoke the bank's New York banking licence. It is unclear yet whether Peter Sands will attend the hearing.

• Tuesday, August 14th 2012 - 08:22 UTC

  Brazil investing to be in the top ten medals table for the Rio Games of 2016

  

  The host nation of the next Olympics had a mixed outing in London and is hoping that a surge in spending (700 million dollars) on athletes and facilities will ensure it makes the top 10 medals table in 2016 on home soil in Rio de Janeiro.

• Tuesday, August 14th 2012 - 08:12 UTC

  Buenos Aires city underground service back running after ten day strike

  

  Buenos Aires commuters will return to the underground trains on Tuesday following a temporary labour agreement which puts an end to a nerve racking ten-day strike that made the Argentine capital collapse at times

• Tuesday, August 14th 2012 - 08:08 UTC

  YPF plans to issue 760m dollars in bonds; Argentina fuel imports soar in June

  

  Argentina’s nationalized YPF oil and gas corporation will issue bonds for 3.5 billion Pesos (760 million dollars) as part of its push to reduce fuel imports by investing in domestic output, the energy company said in a letter to regulators on Monday.

• Tuesday, August 14th 2012 - 07:54 UTC

  Falklands included in Argentina’s UN continental shelf committee presentation

  

  Argentina made a technical presentation last week before the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, CLCS, on the exterior limits of the Argentine shelf in which the claimed territories of the Malvinas, South Georgia, South Sandwich Islands and ‘Argentine Antarctica’ were included.

• Tuesday, August 14th 2012 - 07:47 UTC

  Defendant says Lula da Silva was the ring leader of the Brazilian congress bribes scandal

  

  The defence of one of the main accused at Brazil’s “trial of the century” claimed at a hearing before the Supreme Tribunal (Supreme court) that former president Lula da Silva (2003/2010) was who ordered the bribes scheme to buy votes in Congress.