Latin America

Monday, April 15th 2013 - 06:39 UTC
Capriles won’t accept presidential result until “every vote is recounted, one by one”

Denouncing election irregularities, Venezuelan opposition candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski demanded a recount and said early Monday that he will not recognize the country's presidential results ”until every vote is counted”. His comments came less than an hour after officials said the man former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez handpicked to be his successor had won the country's presidential vote.
Monday, April 15th 2013 - 06:07 UTC
Bad start for Maduro: Capriles showing debilitates him inside the Bolivarian nomenclature

Following five hours of a long recount process Venezuela’s National Electoral Council announced early Monday morning that acting president Nicolas Maduro is the new head of state, having defeated Henrique Capriles by less than a two percentage point difference.
Monday, April 15th 2013 - 03:10 UTC
Mujica envoy to Buenos Aires to try and re-establish ‘normal contacts’ with Cristina Fernandez

Uruguay’s Deputy Foreign minister Roberto Conde is scheduled to travel to Buenos Aires this week as part of President Jose Mujica’s administration efforts to rebuild bilateral relations with Argentina following his ‘coarse, jail-slang’ descriptions of president Cristina Fernandez and her late husband Nestor Kirchner, which were refuted as ‘unacceptable and denigrating”.
Monday, April 15th 2013 - 03:05 UTC
Bachelet proclaimed pre-candidate promises tax and education reforms

Former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet was proclaimed as pre-candidate for the coming presidential elections next November 17 during a political rally in Santiago organized by the Socialists and the Party for Democracy (PPD).
Saturday, April 13th 2013 - 01:37 UTC
Falkland Islands’ history and referendum message impact in Honduras and Guatemala

The way the Falkland Islands have developed into a self governing and self financing country and the recent referendum with its strong message, attracted genuine attention of another two countries visited by a Falklands’ delegation.
Friday, April 12th 2013 - 06:54 UTC
Maduro pledges he will be elected president and later ‘president’ of Mercosur

In his closing massive campaign rally in Caracas, Thursday evening incumbent candidate Nicolas Maduro pledged that next Sunday he will win the Venezuelan presidential election and later will take over the presidency of Mercosur.
Friday, April 12th 2013 - 06:50 UTC
Mujica ‘deepest apologies’ to Cristina Fernandez for the ‘coarse, jail-language’

“My deepest apologies to those whom I might have hurt with my words in recent days” said Uruguayan president Jose Mujica in his daily broadcast on Thursday, the first public apology for the controversial expressions he used last week to refer to Argentine president Cristina Fernandez and her late husband Nestor Kirchner.
Friday, April 12th 2013 - 06:42 UTC
Maradona launches “Cristina 2015” re-re-election in Caracas next to Maduro

Argentina’s football legend Diego Maradona was present on Thursday afternoon in down-town Caracas at the closing campaign rally of Venezuelan incumbent presidential candidate Nicolas Maduro but with a special touch: a red t-shirt promoting the re-re-election of Cristina Fernandez in 2015.
Friday, April 12th 2013 - 06:19 UTC
Dairy produce push FAO food price index one percent higher in March

The FAO Food Price Index (FPI) crept higher by one percent in March compared with a month before, driven mainly by an 11% increase in dairy. Dairy products carry a 17% weight among the various commodity prices included in the calculation of the overall FPI.
Friday, April 12th 2013 - 06:15 UTC
Students take to the streets of Santiago to demand education reform

Chile’s student movement on Thursday offered another demonstration of its clout, bringing tens of thousands onto the streets of the capital Santiago to demand the overhaul of an educational model that dates from the Pinochet dictatorship.