Stories for March 2011

Monday, March 21st 2011 - 07:50 UTC
Organized labour insists in sharing presidential ticket with Cristina Kirchner

Argentine organized labour continues to put pressure on the government insisting that a representative from the unions should be in the presidential ticket with Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner who is expected in the coming weeks to announce her re-election bid for next October elections.
Monday, March 21st 2011 - 07:45 UTC
Peru April 10 presidential election: any of five candidates can make it to the run off

With less than three weeks to April 10 Peruvian presidential election the electorate remains volatile with no candidates assured a first round victory (50% plus one votes cast) or making it to the run off.
Monday, March 21st 2011 - 07:39 UTC
Chilean Central Bank unveils new 1,000 Peso banknote

The president of Chile’s Central Bank showed pictures and described the virtues of the country’s new 1,000-peso (currently worth about US$2.04) banknote this week. This was the fifth and final addition Chile’s new family of banknotes, which have gradually replaced bills in circulation for 30 years.
Monday, March 21st 2011 - 07:34 UTC
Cuban Ladies in White harassed by pro-Castro hecklers

Cuban government supporters harassed a group of dissidents who met at a home in Havana to commemorate the eighth anniversary of a sweeping crackdown on dissent.
Monday, March 21st 2011 - 07:28 UTC
The night before the Argentine military coup 24 March 1976, according to Videla

From jail where he is serving two life sentences for crimes against humanity Argentina’s former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla gave some insights to the day before the 24 March 1976 military coup when then president Isabel Martinez de Peron called him asking support from the Armed Forces for her eroding administration.
Monday, March 21st 2011 - 07:11 UTC
Obama says Brazil’s transition to democracy an example for the Arab world

President Barack Obama, declaring support for Brazil’s rising global economic clout, said the country’s transition from dictatorship to democracy can serve as a model for pro-democracy movements around the world, including in North Africa and the Middle East.
Monday, March 21st 2011 - 07:06 UTC
Massive support in Egypt for constitutional amendments

Egyptians have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a package of constitutional amendments, according to official results released on Sunday evening. Slightly more than 77% of voters endorsed the amendments, the country's supreme judicial committee has announced.
Monday, March 21st 2011 - 06:58 UTC
Syrian protestors torch courthouse and other government buildings

Crowds have set fire to the courthouse and other buildings on a third straight day of demonstrations in the southern Syrian city of Daraa. Residents said one person was killed and scores injured when security forces used live rounds against protesters. Witnesses said dozens were also taken to be treated for tear gas inhalation at the main Omari mosque.
Monday, March 21st 2011 - 06:51 UTC
IAEA says Japan’s nuclear emergency remains very serious; death and missing toll reaches 21.000

The United Nations nuclear agency, IAEA, says there have been positive developments in Japan's efforts to tackle a nuclear emergency after the 11 February quake.
Monday, March 21st 2011 - 06:46 UTC
Gaddafi’s compound destroyed in air strike; Libyan military announce cease-fire

A three-storey building in a military command centre used by Muammar Gaddafi has been destroyed in an air strike by coalition forces. The Sunday-night strike was the first reported attack on the Bab al-Azizia, a sprawling compound in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, that Gaddafi has used several times as a setting for televised addresses, and which was bombed by the United States in 1986.