Stories for 2013

Monday, November 18th 2013 - 22:25 UTC
Argentina's annual economic activity grew 4.7% in September, says Indec

Argentina's economic activity grew 4.7% in September compared with the same month last year, according to the government's much questioned stats office, INDEC. Market expectations were in the range of 3.9%.
Monday, November 18th 2013 - 22:15 UTC
Brazil has a new Miss Bum Bum: Dai Macedo and her 107 cm behind

The Miss Bum Bum 2013 winner is 25-year-old Dai Macedo of Brazil. Dai Macedo, who was the representative for the state of Goias in central Brazil, was one of fifteen finalists that participated in the competition in Sao Paolo last week.
Monday, November 18th 2013 - 22:06 UTC
Chilean leaders of the massive student protests elected to Congress

Vallejo's victory and those of independent candidates Giorgio Jackson and Gabriel Boric and fellow communist Karol Cariola, former comrade-in-arms in the student movement, who also gained seats in Chile's lower house on Sunday is significant for presidential front-runner Michelle Bachelet's bid to have her Nueva Mayoria coalition gain a stronger foothold in both houses of Congress.
Monday, November 18th 2013 - 18:33 UTC
Astori forecasts Uruguay's inflation in the range of 3 to 7% in the next two years

Vice-president Danilo Astori confirmed that Uruguay will continue with its current flexible foreign exchange policy, because “this has helped us reduce volatilities”, but also admitted concern about inflation, the third highest in South America and fourth in Latin-American and the Caribbean.
Monday, November 18th 2013 - 17:51 UTC
Two ladies in the runoff for Chile's presidency, but Pinochet's legacy is still around

Two ladies and daughters of Air Force generals (but from opposite sides) will be disputing the run off on 15 December when the next Chilean president will be elected. Given the fact that on last Sunday's first round Socialist Michelle Bachelet was only three points short of a majority, and over twenty points ahead of conservative Evelyn Matthei there should be no doubts about who will be inaugurated at La Moneda next March 2014.
Monday, November 18th 2013 - 06:00 UTC
Chile election: Bachelet and Matthei go to second round

Left-wing candidate Michelle Bachelet has won the first round of voting in Chile's presidential election.She took 47% of the votes, against 25% for her main rival, Evelyn Matthei, a former Labour minister in the centre-right government of Sebastian Pinera. A second round of voting will take place on 15 December.
Saturday, November 16th 2013 - 07:25 UTC
Next Tuesday Venezuelan president Maduro will begin governing by decree

Venezuela's legislature gave initial backing this week to a measure granting extraordinary powers over the economy to President Nicolas Maduro, which means next Tuesday, when the second vote, he will be able to govern by decree without having to seek parliamentary approval.
Saturday, November 16th 2013 - 07:02 UTC
Falklands new legislative pledges more transparency and communications with the public

The recently elected Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly, the first to be full-time is breaking ground and has announced several changes to its functioning basically more transparency, televised sessions, showing how decisions are reached on key issues and MLAs views, and for this has decided to name two small working groups.
Saturday, November 16th 2013 - 06:58 UTC
Brazil's ex-president Jango Goulart remains receive full military honors 27 years later

Brazil on Thursday paid homage to Joao Goulart, ousted as Brazilian president ahead of the 1964-85 military dictatorship, after his remains were exhumed to determine if he was poisoned. The exhumation took place at the Sao Borja cemetery near the Uruguayan and Argentine border, and flown to the capital Brasilia.
Saturday, November 16th 2013 - 06:54 UTC
Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon increased by a third over the past year

Deforestation in the Amazon increased by nearly a third over the past year, according to Brazilian government figures released this week, confirming a feared reversal in what had been steady progress over the past decade against destruction of the world's largest rainforest.