Politics

Wednesday, August 24th 2011 - 23:22 UTC
Savage infighting in Brazilian coalition exposes President Rousseff political weakness

A Brazilian minister accused his own party of trying to destroy him and said he might not have enough support to continue in his job, raising the odds of yet another high-level departure from President Dilma Rousseff's beleaguered government.
Wednesday, August 24th 2011 - 22:15 UTC
Two-day strike takes off in Chile with Piñera increasingly debilitated

The Chilean capital Santiago was witnessing another tumultuous day on Wednesday as protests started to sweep the nation’s capital and unions called for a two day nationwide shutdown to protest the educational system.
Wednesday, August 24th 2011 - 07:28 UTC
President Rousseff battles for cohesion in a disappointed ruling coalition

Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff said on Tuesday that the two main parties of the ruling coalition, “PT (Workers party) and the PMDB (Brazilian Democratic Movement) are the basis of the stability and trust of the government”.
Wednesday, August 24th 2011 - 07:26 UTC
Impatient Raul Castro calls on Cubans “to clear our heads of ideological rigidity”

Cuban President Raul Castro is increasingly impatient with the slow implementation of his economic reforms, which he publicly blames mostly on bureaucratic sloth and resistance to change.
Wednesday, August 24th 2011 - 07:21 UTC
Chavez only recognizes the Gaddafi government; accuses US of inciting civil war

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez said he will only recognize a Libyan government led by his friend and ally Muammar Gaddafi and accused the United States of inciting the country's civil war.
Wednesday, August 24th 2011 - 07:10 UTC
Strauss-Khan free but faces civil lawsuit and rape investigation case in France

Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Khan, no longer facing sexual-assault charges in New York for what one of his lawyers called “inappropriate behaviour,” remains a defendant in a civil lawsuit by his accuser and the subject of a French rape investigation.
Wednesday, August 24th 2011 - 06:55 UTC
Government spending and jobs boost President Cristina Fernandez re-election

With Argentina’s presidential election less than two months away official data is showing why President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is poised to make effective her re-election bid in October.
Wednesday, August 24th 2011 - 06:38 UTC
French tourists: two men charged with cover-up for hiding gun used in crime

Two men were charged on Tuesday of cover-up in the case that investigates the abuse and killing of the two French tourists in the north-west Argentine province of Salta, the judicial spokesman Marcelo Báez reported.
Tuesday, August 23rd 2011 - 06:42 UTC
OAS calls for ‘shared responsibility’ from drug-consuming countries

Consumer countries must assume their responsibility in the fight against the drug trade because as long as there is a demand, the illegal business won’t be stopped said the Organization of American States Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza who also praised his host Peruvian president Ollanta Humala for convening a presidential summit on the issue.
Tuesday, August 23rd 2011 - 06:33 UTC
After effects of downgrading US credit rating: KO for S&P president

Standard & Poor's (S&P) president Deven Sharma has stepped down just weeks after the agency downgraded the US credit rating. He will be replaced by Douglas Peterson, chief operating officer of Citibank with effect from 12 September, the agency said.