Politics

• Friday, April 13th 2012 - 03:03 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez and Obama will hold bilateral meeting in Colombia

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez leaves on Friday for Colombia to attend the two-day sixth Summit of the Americas where she is scheduled to hold a meeting with President Barack Obama on request from the White House, according to the Executive press office in Buenos Aires.

• Friday, April 13th 2012 - 02:24 UTC

  Argentina’s March inflation according to private estimates, 2.3%

  

  Argentine opposition lawmakers presented on Thursday March’s inflation index based in the analysis of nine private agencies, which showed a 2.3% increase over the previous month.

• Friday, April 13th 2012 - 02:22 UTC

  Catholic Church expresses concern over corruption and poverty in Argentina

  

  The Argentine Catholic church expressed concern over the “important level of corruption” in the country and warned about the disturbing inequality and extended poverty.

• Friday, April 13th 2012 - 00:53 UTC

  The remarkable robust 1945 line and the Falkland Islands dispute

  

  By Gwynne Dyer - International human rights campaigner and occasional actor Sean Penn, whose well-deserved Nobel Peace Prize continues to be delayed for mysterious reasons, was the first famous foreigner to lend his support to the cause. “The world today is not going to tolerate any ludicrous and archaic commitment to colonialist ideology,” he told Cristina Kirchner, the president of Argentina. He was speaking, of course, of the Falkland Islands.

• Friday, April 13th 2012 - 00:50 UTC

  In three years the ‘Obama magic’ has turned irrelevant for most Latam leaders

  

  Three years after being received by Latin American leaders as a super-star, US President Barack Obama faces scepticism and disappointment at this weekend’s Summit of the Americas for failing to meet promises of a new era in relations with the region.

• Thursday, April 12th 2012 - 17:48 UTC

  World trade growth will slow for second year in 2012, anticipates WTO

  

  World trade growth will slow for a second year to 3.7% in 2012 but “severe” downside risks could drive it further below the 20-year average of 5.4%, the World Trade Organization forecast on Thursday.

• Thursday, April 12th 2012 - 17:19 UTC

  Swiss video accuses Blatter of ignoring human rights in run-up to World Cup

  

  A video featuring world football boss Sepp Blatter dancing uninhibitedly has been launched in Switzerland to draw attention to human rights in the run-up to the 2014 World Cup.

• Thursday, April 12th 2012 - 17:11 UTC

  Soros tells Germany preparing for “end of the Euro” only worsens the situation

  

  Billionaire investor George Soros said financial markets are concerned other countries will follow Germany’s Bundesbank in girding against the end of the Euro.

• Thursday, April 12th 2012 - 17:08 UTC

  Spain warns Argentina that any hostile action “will bring consequences”

  

  Amidst the cross-fire between the Argentine government and Repsol-YPF oil giant, Spain’s Industry, Energy and Tourism Minister José Manuel Soria, warned on Thursday that “any sign of hostility” against Spanish companies “will be considered as a hostile sign against Spain and its government, and will bring consequences.”

• Thursday, April 12th 2012 - 06:17 UTC

  Hillary Clinton will be visiting Brazil after the Americas Summit in Colombia

  

  US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton confirmed she will be visiting Brazil next week following the Summit of the Americas scheduled for April 14/15 in Colombia. Her trip follows on the Brazilian president visit to the White House where both leaders, Dilma Rousseff and Barack Obama politely but unyielding kept to their positions.