Tag: Labour Day

• Monday, May 2nd 2016 - 08:18 UTC

  Macri claims Argentina hid unemployment with 'worthless public jobs', at Labor Day event with dissident union

  

  Argentine president Mauricio Macri attended an event at a dissident union headquarters in the City of Buenos Aires where he marked the Labour Day with unionized workers of the food sector, and blasted the previous administration for hiding unemployment with public jobs.

• Monday, May 2nd 2016 - 05:42 UTC

  Rousseff pledges “to fight to the end” and some groups anticipate “civil disobedience”

  

  Brazil's populist president Dilma Rousseff vowed at a protest on Sunday, International Labour Day, that she would go down fighting ahead of what could be her final full week in power before impeachment.

• Thursday, May 2nd 2013 - 07:01 UTC

  Morales expels USAID to protest Kerry’ reference of Latam as the ‘US backyard’

  

  President Evo Morales expelled a US development agency from Bolivia, marking the latest confrontation between Washington and a bloc of populist governments in Latin America.