Stories for March 2011

Friday, March 25th 2011 - 16:50 UTC
Uruguay celebrates 40 years of the ruling coalition with Lula da Silva

Uruguay’s ruling coalition is celebrating its fortieth anniversary with a massive political rally in downtown Montevideo where the main speaker will be the former Brazilian president Lula da Silva.
Friday, March 25th 2011 - 09:23 UTC
Nato agrees to take command from the US in enforcing no-fly zone over Libya

Nato has agreed to take command of enforcing the no-fly zone over Libya from the US. But Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen made clear that other aspects of the operation would remain in the hands of the current coalition for now.
Friday, March 25th 2011 - 09:19 UTC
Syria pledges to introduce reforms to meet protestor’s demands

Syrian leaders have pledged to introduce reforms to meet the demands of protesters, after days of violence in the southern city of Deraa. Officials promised to study the need for lifting the state of emergency, in place since 1963.
Friday, March 25th 2011 - 04:15 UTC
Argentina recalls 35 years of one of its darkest periods in recent history

Thousands of Argentines took to the streets of Buenos Aires and other cities Thursday evening under the slogan “Memory, truth and justice” to evoke 35 years of the last military coup that left a toll of an estimated 30.000 killed and disappeared detainees.
Friday, March 25th 2011 - 02:17 UTC
Academic seminar in Paraguay to celebrate 20 years of Mercosur

An academic seminar “20 years of Mercosur” will be the main celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the South American trade block, unable to convene political figures from the four full member countries to commemorate the 26 March 1991 founding charter or Asuncion Treaty.
Friday, March 25th 2011 - 01:51 UTC
Human Rights Court calls on Uruguay to remove ‘dirty war’ amnesty law

Uruguay must remove obstacles to prosecuting human rights offences committed during its “dirty war” in the 1970s, including an amnesty that had protected military and police officers accused of killings, kidnappings or torture, the Inter-American Human Rights Court ruled.
Friday, March 25th 2011 - 01:14 UTC
Brazilian government wants to sack CEO of the country’s largest corporation

Brazilian government is facing a political backlash over its apparent efforts to force out the head of mining giant Vale, the world’s largest iron ore miner. Opposition leaders on Thursday demanded Finance Minister Guido Mantega explain reports he asked a shareholder of Vale to help seek a replacement for CEO Roger Agnelli.
Friday, March 25th 2011 - 01:06 UTC
IMF mission travels to Argentina in April to help design a new national CPI

The International Monetary Fund said Thursday it will send a team to Argentina again next month to continue work on revamping the government's discredited inflation measure, and will provide specific recommendations.
Friday, March 25th 2011 - 01:00 UTC
Obama to CFK: “can we have our (US Air Force seized) equipment back”

US President Barack Obama expressed concern about the recent incident in which Argentina seized part of the cargo of a US military plane that was carrying supplies for a joint military exercise, according to US newspaper The Miami Herald’s Argentine columnist Andrés Oppenheimer.
Thursday, March 24th 2011 - 20:37 UTC
Montevideo received almost a million tourists in 2010

Uruguay received 2.4 million tourists during 2010, 34% of which the capital Montevideo and if the cruise visitors are added the final number jumps to 930.000, according to Luis Polakof, head of the city’s Economic Development Department.