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Stories for May 2008

  • Thursday, May 1st 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    Lula da Silva praises Brazil's two sided “investment grade”

    Most of the brazileans approve the performance of Lula da Silva

    Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva celebrated the country's newly acquired investment grade condition and magnet for foreign investment. “Brazil is a serious country, with serious policies, which looks after its finances seriously, and that is why we now have achieved the international trust, which Brazil was after for a long time”

  • Thursday, May 1st 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    Call to defend human rights activists in Colombia

    A group of independent United Nations experts have called for urgent measures to protect those defending human rights in Colombia, following a recent surge in violence that includes killings, harassment and intimidation of civil society activists, trade union leaders and lawyers representing victims.

  • Thursday, May 1st 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    Inflation, the main concern for majority of Argentines

    Inflation has become the main concern of a majority of Argentines, leaving aside other issues such as insecurity and poverty according to the latest public opinion polls from Ibarometro and Hugo Haime & Associates, released this week in Buenos Aires and which refers to the second half of April.

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