Stories for 2009

Thursday, October 1st 2009 - 09:35 UTC
Uruguay’s Afro-cultural tradition becomes world heritage

Candombe, a dance and choreography of strong cultural tradition among the Afro-River Plate population which was originally brought by slaves mainly to Uruguay, was declared Wednesday as belonging to the world's Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, Unesco.
Thursday, October 1st 2009 - 09:25 UTC
Tango and candombe declared intangible cultural expressions by Unesco

Two of Uruguay’s most typical cultural expressions, tango and candombe (*) were declared on Wednesday part of the world's Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO.
Thursday, October 1st 2009 - 08:07 UTC
Argentina recovering from the global crisis, says World Bank

Argentina's economy is recovering from the global financial crisis in step with the international community, Augusto de la Torre, chief economist of the World Bank, said during a conference in Miami.
Thursday, October 1st 2009 - 07:47 UTC
Venezuela’s Mercosur incorporation criticized in Brazilian Senate

Venezuela’s Mercosur incorporation chances received a full blow this week when the Brazilian senate Foreign Relations committee rapporteur said the hopeful member-country is ruled by an “almost dictatorial” president Hugo Chavez
Thursday, October 1st 2009 - 05:35 UTC
Argentine Catholic Church says human rights are violated by extreme poverty

Primate Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio blasted the Argentine government saying “the social debt violates all the rights of the citizens to develop a full and active life.” Argentina's leading bishop added that “human rights are not only violated by acts of terrorism, but also by extreme poverty”.
Thursday, October 1st 2009 - 05:33 UTC
The crisis is still here: IMF warns loan losses could rise forced by unemployment

The International Monetary Fund lowered its estimate for global write-downs for banks and other financial institutions to roughly 3.4 trillion US dollars but warned that loan losses could rise in the face of stubbornly high unemployment and associated delinquencies.
Thursday, October 1st 2009 - 05:22 UTC
Argentina creates new Ministry of Agriculture, Fishery and Food

Argentina has officially created the Ministry of Agriculture, Fishery and Food, which previously worked as a secretariat of the Production Ministry. The decision of the Kirchner couple administration to raise the status of the Agriculture Secretariat to a ministry comes amid tensions with farming leaders who are protesting the government's farming policies.
Thursday, October 1st 2009 - 05:10 UTC
Peru’s Fujimori gets another 6 years prison now for bribes

Peru’s Supreme Court convicted and sentenced former President Alberto Fujimori to six years in prison for wiretapping opponents and paying bribes to lawmakers and publishers during his rule from 1990 to 2000.
Thursday, October 1st 2009 - 05:07 UTC
Four million HIV positive people receiving life-saving treatment

More than 4 million people in low-and middle-income countries were receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) at the close of 2008, representing a 36% increase in one year and a ten-fold increase over five years, according to a new report released by the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
Thursday, October 1st 2009 - 04:30 UTC
Zelaya denies Brazil was aware of his plans to return to Honduras

Ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya said that Brazilian president Lula da Silva did not know about his decision to return to Honduras and claimed that followers calling for his reinstatement have been viciously beaten up by police in Tegucigalpa, according to reports in the Brazilian press.