Stories for May 2014

Tuesday, May 13th 2014 - 02:38 UTC
Uruguay agrees to take 8 to 12 Guantanamo prisoners; announcement in 'a couple of weeks'

The administration of president Jose Mujica is willing to take eight to twelve of Guantanamo prisoners as refugees in Uruguay and this could happen once the US Senate approves a bill to that purpose, according to sources from the ministerial delegation currently in Washington.
Monday, May 12th 2014 - 23:56 UTC
Mujica asks Obama support for scientific knowledge and to combat smoking

In an enjoyable press conference at the White House Uruguay's President Jose Mujica spoke about the increasing importance for people in the US to be bilingual, the dangers of smoking and his interest in having access to U.S. knowledge and professors. President Barrack Obama praised the Uruguayan leader's 'extraordinary' credibility and leadership in democracy and human rights issues.
Monday, May 12th 2014 - 23:51 UTC
Lima ranks as the Latin American with best reputation for making business

Lima, capital of Peru outstands as the leading Latin American city to make business, followed by Santiago de Chile, Buenos Aires, Argentina and Sao Paulo, Brazil, although these last two actually dropped from the previous ranking, according to an annual list made by the Bogotá Rosario University.
Monday, May 12th 2014 - 20:03 UTC
Falklands' fisheries success story: 20 years of Consolidated and 10 of CFL Gambler

Falkland Islands Consolidated Fisheries Ltd (CFL) celebrated its 20th anniversary as a company at a reception and banquet at Malvina House Hotel. It also celebrated the 10th anniversary of its vessel CFL Gambler’s blessing and highlighted the MSC certification of the toothfish fishery.
Monday, May 12th 2014 - 06:54 UTC
Churchill feared in 1942 the Falklands could be taken over by the Japanese

According to the Sunday Express wartime prime minister Winston Churchill feared the opening of a new front in the Falkland Islands and was so concerned about the matter that he sent about 1.000 soldiers to protect the Islands and ensure Britain would not have to retake them.
Monday, May 12th 2014 - 06:51 UTC
Venezuela activists vowed to continue protests despite demolition of camps

Venezuela said it had freed most of the 243 youth activists arrested in raids last week on street camps set up to protest against President Nicolas Maduro's government. Although the demolition of four camps in Caracas was hoped would discourage the three-month protest movement, activists vowed the measure had only strengthened their resolve to demonstrate.
Monday, May 12th 2014 - 06:48 UTC
Brazil downplays, mathematically, the threat of dengue for Cup tourists

A study by Brazilian experts calculates that, in the worst case scenario, just 100 of the 600,000 foreign tourists who will visit Brazil during the World Cup soccer tourney scheduled to begin in June, or less than 0.02% of the total visitors, will contract dengue during their stay in the country.
Monday, May 12th 2014 - 06:45 UTC
“Ship of Gold” 156 years later renders its first five bars valued at 1.2 million dollars

At the waning years of the great California Gold Rush, a ship laden around 30,000 pounds of the precious metal on its way to New York was caught in the middle of a vicious hurricane and sunk off the coast of South Carolina with 425 souls aboard.
Monday, May 12th 2014 - 06:38 UTC
Pelé desperate to exorcise Brazil's defeat and loss of the World Cup to Uruguay in 1950

Brazil's Pelé, the legendary attacker believes that his country's national team has the ideal opportunity to exorcise the demons of their 2-1 infamous loss to Uruguay at the Maracana 64 years ago, more precisely 16 July 1950.
Monday, May 12th 2014 - 06:34 UTC
Panama elected-president pledges to normalize relations with Venezuela and Colombia

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and Panamanian president-elect Juan Carlos Varela have pledged to waste no time in normalizing relations and re-launching diplomatic, economic and trade ties cut off two months ago, Venezuela's foreign ministry announced. Varela takes office next July first.