Politics

• Thursday, September 29th 2011 - 00:48 UTC

  Raul Castro drops 50-year ban: Cubans allowed buying and selling cars

  

  Cuba authorized auto sales among individuals Wednesday, easing a 50-year-old ban that has helped make the Castro brothers-ruled island a living museum of vintage cars.

• Wednesday, September 28th 2011 - 23:42 UTC

  Argentine minister and UK generals exchange blows on Faklands defence

  

  “Force” and “defence budgets” are the only reason Great Britain can wield in support of the Malvinas Islands where “it holds 2.000 people hostage on Islands of Argentine sovereignty”, said Argentine Defence minister Arturo Puricelli.

• Wednesday, September 28th 2011 - 15:39 UTC

  Stronghold of the opposition falls to Cristina Fernandez in provincial election

  

  Argentina’s latest provincial election, before the October 23 presidential ballot, was a landslide victory for Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner supported candidates and an end to 28 years of dominance by Argentina’s main opposition party in the Patagonia province of Rio Negro.

• Wednesday, September 28th 2011 - 14:51 UTC

  Obama proposes Roberta Jacobson for Western Hemisphere Affairs

  

  US President Barack Obama suggested that acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Roberta Jacobson, be ratified in office, the White House announced.

• Wednesday, September 28th 2011 - 10:22 UTC

  Brazilian policemen arrested on suspicion of murdering anti-corruption judge

  

  A senior Brazilian police officer has been arrested on suspicion of ordering the murder of a judge who investigated police corruption.

• Wednesday, September 28th 2011 - 06:29 UTC

  Chilean president support plummets; 67% “believe little or anything” Piñera says

  

  A poll from the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Reality (CERC) released Tuesday confirmed that Chile’s beleaguered President Sebastián Piñera continues to lose popular support.

• Wednesday, September 28th 2011 - 06:24 UTC

  Brazil adapts to weaker Real: cuts fuel tax to prop Petrobrás and contain inflation

  

  Brazil cut a tax on fuel sold by Petrobras by 16% helping prevent surging import costs from squeezing profit margins at the state-run company and reducing the need for price increases as inflation quickens.

• Wednesday, September 28th 2011 - 02:39 UTC

  Gallup governance poll shows 81% dissatisfied with the US political system

  

  A record-high 81% of US citizens are dissatisfied with the way the country is being governed, adding to negativity that has been building over the past 10 years.

• Wednesday, September 28th 2011 - 02:34 UTC

  Bolivia’s Interior minister steps down and controversial jungle road is suspended

  

  Bolivia's Interior minister and his Deputy resigned Tuesday after mounting recriminations over a violent police crackdown on marchers opposed to a jungle highway that they say would despoil an indigenous preserve.

• Wednesday, September 28th 2011 - 01:42 UTC

  UK opens consultation period on new strategy for Overseas Territories

  

  The Foreign Office has launched a consultation on a new strategy for the Overseas Territories and is inviting views from people of those Territories and the UK on how to implement the goals.