Politics

Wednesday, April 25th 2012 - 06:21 UTC
Uruguay and Argentina reach agreement on tax information exchange

Uruguay and Argentina agreed to exchange tax data in a deal that gives Argentine inspectors the power to dig up information on savers with bank accounts in the neighbouring country, officials said on Tuesday.
Wednesday, April 25th 2012 - 04:47 UTC
Repsol says it has invested over 20 billion dollars since taking over YPF in 1999

Spain’s energy corporation Repsol describes as ‘false’ Argentine government allegations that its affiliate YPF “had not invested sufficiently” in its hydrocarbons interests in Argentina.
Wednesday, April 25th 2012 - 03:01 UTC
Second incident involving US Defence personnel and prostitutes surfaces in Brazil

Another embarrassing ‘Colombian style’ incident surfaced involving US personnel and prostitutes in Latin America on Tuesday, as US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said that Marines had been punished for allegedly injuring a prostitute in Brazil in December.
Wednesday, April 25th 2012 - 02:56 UTC
Video on Chavez playing bocce to dispel rumours about his health condition

The Venezuelan government on Tuesday broadcast a video of President Hugo Chavez playing the European bowling game of bocce in Cuba in a new effort to quash rumours that he was dying of cancer while out of the country.
Tuesday, April 24th 2012 - 21:20 UTC
Timerman caught by EU Commissioner De Gucht in a major diplomatic blunder

Argentine Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman is in the middle of a major diplomatic blunder through a baffling series of statements regarding a letter sent by the EU to his office last week, according to a report published in the Buenos Aires Herald.
Tuesday, April 24th 2012 - 20:58 UTC
EU preparing to lodge a complaint at WTO against Argentina import restrictions

The European Union is planning to lodge a complaint at the World Trade Organization over Argentina's import restrictions and is seeking other trading partners to back its presentation, a source familiar with the situation said on Tuesday according to news agencies.
Tuesday, April 24th 2012 - 20:51 UTC
Cuba plans private sector to take over 50% of the economy in five years

Cuba will move nearly 50% of the state's economic activity to the “non-state” sector a senior Communist party official said, the latest signal the island is headed toward a mixed economy.
Tuesday, April 24th 2012 - 19:19 UTC
Argentina formalizes proposal for air link with Falklands and resumption of fisheries’ cooperation

Argentina made a formal proposal to the UK for the establishment of direct flights from Argentina to the Falklands and to resume cooperation in the conservation of fishery resources in the South Atlantic, indicates a release posted on Tuesday in the Argentine Foreign Ministry site.
Tuesday, April 24th 2012 - 06:38 UTC
S&P downgrades Argentina’s outlook to ‘negative’ spurred by policies enacted since October 2011

Rating Agency Standard and Poor’s (S&P) downgraded Argentina’s economic and financial outlook to “negative,” after the expropriation of YPF, which endangers the “B” rating the country has for its sovereign debt.
Tuesday, April 24th 2012 - 06:31 UTC
Three Chilean universities among top 100 in Latam; two Brazilian and a Mexican rank first

Three Chilean research universities have placed in the top 100 Latin American universities, according to a new study released last week by Iberoamericano SIR 2012.