Latin America

Wednesday, October 10th 2012 - 09:07 UTC
IMF estimates Argentina 2012 growth below government target but above private forecasts

Argentina will grow 2.6% in 2012 according to the IMF latest World Economic Outlook, which is below the 3.4% estimated by President Cristina Fernandez administration for this year’s budget.
Wednesday, October 10th 2012 - 08:57 UTC
Brazil ratifies full support to President Santos and the Colombian peace process

Brazil extended full support ‘in whatever is necessary’ to Colombia’s peace process which is scheduled to begin next 17 October in Norway and will continue in Cuba, announced the Executive Planalto Palace.
Wednesday, October 10th 2012 - 08:30 UTC
Ecuador’s Correa preparing the ground for his re-election bid in 2013

Ecuador's President Rafael Correa said his family would support him if he were to run for re-election in 2013 and that his candidacy now rested on the “high chances” that he would be nominated as the ruling party's candidate.
Wednesday, October 10th 2012 - 01:14 UTC
US universities top world ranking; Asia surging strongly but Latam disastrous

Untied States universities dominate the Times Higher Education global rankings for 2012-13, occupying seven of the top 10 spots, but Asian institutions are on the rise while only four Latin American figure among the best 400.
Tuesday, October 9th 2012 - 06:36 UTC
Chavez invites Capriles for a pleasant discussion and a call for national unity

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he had a pleasant meeting and discussion with the opposition candidate Enrique Capriles, whom he invited Monday evening to the presidential Palace following his re-election victory on Sunday.
Tuesday, October 9th 2012 - 04:02 UTC
Wikileaks Assange bail guarantors ordered to pay £ 93.000

Nine people who put up bail for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, including two members of the British aristocracy and a Nobel Prize winner, were ordered to pay 93,000 pounds on Monday after Assange took refuge in Ecuador's embassy.
Tuesday, October 9th 2012 - 02:48 UTC
IMF cuts Latam growth forecast to 3.2% and 2.9% in 2013; Brazil 1.5% and 4%

The IMF cut its growth forecasts on Monday for Latin America and its largest economy Brazil, against a backdrop of deteriorating global growth and contagion risks if the Euro zone crisis deepens and China's growth slows more than expected.
Tuesday, October 9th 2012 - 01:38 UTC
Paraguay Senate plans to reject instruments used by Mercosur to sanction the country

The Paraguayan Senate will be addressing on Thursday the Ushuaia II Protocol and the Unasur Additional Protocol on democratic commitment, both instruments used by Mercosur and Unasur last June to have Paraguay suspended from the two organizations.
Monday, October 8th 2012 - 23:36 UTC
Americas’ defense ministers’ summit rejects addressing Falklands’ issue

Argentina’s intention of having the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty issue included in the agenda of the Americas Defense ministers’ conference currently taking place in Uruguay was rejected, mainly because of the positions from the US, Canada and several Caribbean states.
Monday, October 8th 2012 - 20:17 UTC
Unasur praise for the reliability and transparency of Venezuelan electoral system

The head of the Unasur delegation sent to Venezuela to follow Sunday’s electoral process, Carlos Alvarez said that the country had given the world a lesson of democracy because of its extraordinary electoral system and the attitude of the opposition, among other positive elements.