Politics

• Monday, October 1st 2012 - 06:08 UTC

  Massive rallies of Capriles and Chavez in last leg of what polls show as a very tight presidential race

  

  More than 100.000 people gathered in Caracas in support of Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles. He criticised President Hugo Chavez for what he called a long list of unfulfilled promises and demanded justice for three opposition activists killed during a rally in Barinas state on Saturday.

• Saturday, September 29th 2012 - 09:53 UTC

  Falklands’ lawmaker anticipates cracks in Argentina’s blockade of the Islands

  

  Lawmaker Jan Check is “cautiously optimistic” about the future of the Falkland Islands despite Argentina’s blockade and attempts to wreck the Islands economy, but if development continues to thrive, some neighbours will think twice before continuing to support the aggressive policy of President Cristina Fernandez towards the disputed South Atlantic Islands.

• Saturday, September 29th 2012 - 09:16 UTC

  Anticipating an inflation sprint Uruguay’s central bank raised benchmark rate to 9%

  

  Uruguay's central bank raised its benchmark interest rate 25 basis points to 9% on Friday in a bid to cool inflation expectations. The bank had held the rate steady at its last two monthly monetary policy meetings.

• Saturday, September 29th 2012 - 09:06 UTC

  Film to re-edit Shackleton’s odyssey and project to recover “Endurance”

  

  Bob Chartoff and Lynn Hendee of Chartoff Productions announce plans for “Ice”, an epic action-adventure feature film based on the true story of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 Endurance expedition. Shackleton’s remarkable rescue of his 27 men when their ship, the Endurance, went down in the pack ice off the Antarctic coast is internationally regarded as the greatest adventure in history.

• Saturday, September 29th 2012 - 08:56 UTC

  Falklands’ lawmakers at party conference meet Argentine ambassador Castro

  

  The Falkland Islands Government stand at the Liberal Democrat Party Conference in Brighton welcomed a number of senior party members including the leader Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and the Argentine ambassador in London, Alicia Castro who was also attending the event.

• Saturday, September 29th 2012 - 08:38 UTC

  PM Cameron admits disagreements with Brazil on some foreign policy issues

  

  British Prime Minister David Cameron admitted that UK and Brazil did not agree in all foreign policy issues, but welcomed the existence of an open debate between the two countries. PM Cameron ended on Friday a two-day visit to Latinamerica’s largest economy to promote trade and investment.

• Saturday, September 29th 2012 - 01:06 UTC

  Rousseff tells Cameron British interest in Brazil has come at the right time

  

  President Dilma Rousseff said British interest in Brazil had come at the right time after her government announced last month a 66 billion dollars investment in road and railway building as part of a massive plan to upgrade her country's dilapidated infrastructure, which includes modernizing ports and airports.

• Friday, September 28th 2012 - 17:02 UTC

  EU employment and social situation rapidly diverging and deteriorating

  

  The employment and social situation in the EU remained very serious in the second quarter of 2012 with unemployment rising overall but also displaying significant differences between Member States, households' financial situation deteriorating and child poverty increasing, a press release of the European Commission (EC) informs.

• Friday, September 28th 2012 - 16:43 UTC

  Message to Mercosur: “Paraguay will never accept intervention by foreign powers in its internal affairs”

  

  On what he described as the “first and last time” he will address the United Nations General Assembly, the President of Paraguay, Federico Franco, affirmed that his country will not abide by any infringement on its sovereignty.

• Friday, September 28th 2012 - 06:19 UTC

  CFK to Harvard students: there is no ‘dollar clamp’; don’t repeat monochord questions

  

  President Cristina Fernandez speaking at Harvard University denied there was a “dollar clamp”, chided some students for making the same “monochord questions” as the Argentine media, attacked the IMF and finally described a question on her wish for re-re-election as ‘abstract’ since it does not depend from her or a single party.