Politics

• Monday, December 17th 2012 - 06:03 UTC

  Talvi says Uruguayan government reacts with ‘authoritarian ticks” to criticism

  

  The head of an economics think-tank said that the Uruguayan government reactions to his criticisms of the management of the country’s economy are a kind of “authoritarian tick” which pretends to censor all those who do not share the “official truths”.

• Monday, December 17th 2012 - 05:53 UTC

  Blatter warns Brazil about security in football fields and the coming World Cup

  

  The abandonment of last Wednesday's South American Cup final following shocking accusations police had pulled guns on players should serve as a warning for Brazil's World Cup organizers, FIFA president Sepp Blatter said this weekend.

• Saturday, December 15th 2012 - 21:06 UTC

  Argentina pays GDP-linked bonds; Central bank reserves fall to lowest since 2007

  

  Argentina made payments of over 3.5 billion dollars on Friday in GDP-linked bonds which refer to the 2005 and 2010 rescheduling agreed with creditors who originally held 2001/02 defaulted sovereign bonds. At the same bank the Central bank revealed that international reserves have fallen to its lowest since 2007.

• Saturday, December 15th 2012 - 20:56 UTC

  Peru and Chile sign next week ‘free of mines’ designated areas along their border

  

  Next week Chile and Peru will have concluded sweeping their border of anti personnel and anti tank mines, announced Claudio de la Puente, head of the Latin American Desk at the Peruvian Foreign ministry.

• Saturday, December 15th 2012 - 16:57 UTC

  Law of the Sea court orders ‘immediate’ release of ARA Libertad

  

  The UN International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea ordered on Saturday the release of ARA Libertad, the Argentine naval training ship which has been detained in Ghana since October at the request of holders of defaulted Argentine state bonds.

• Saturday, December 15th 2012 - 06:37 UTC

  Tearful Obama addresses the nation: calls for “meaningful action against these tragedies”

  

  A tearful President Barak Obama said US leaders must ”take meaningful action'' regardless of politics in response to the mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school.

• Saturday, December 15th 2012 - 06:33 UTC

  Argentina’s official November inflation 0.9%; half the 1.81% congressional index

  

  Argentina's official inflation was 0.9% in November, rising slightly from October's 0.8% rate, the government stats office Indec said on Friday.

• Saturday, December 15th 2012 - 06:31 UTC

  Mexico ready to drop WTO complaint after reaching auto accord with Argentina

  

  Mexico said it would drop a complaint over import curbs against Argentina before the World Trade Organization after the two countries signed a more limited automobile trade pact.

• Saturday, December 15th 2012 - 06:29 UTC

  “Doctors of the World” claims there are 16.000 living in the streets of Buenos Aires

  

  There are over 16.000 homeless living in the streets of Buenos Aires with great difficulties to access public health services according to the ‘Health in the streets’ report from ‘Doctors of the world’ and which was released Friday in the Argentine capital.

• Saturday, December 15th 2012 - 06:15 UTC

  “Support linked to competitiveness” Merkel tells the EU members

  

  European leaders agreed on Friday to press on with further steps to tackle their debt crisis but German Chancellor Angela Merkel threw out a proposal to boost risk-sharing with a fund to help Euro zone states in trouble.