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Montevideo, November 29th 2024 - 08:34 UTC

Latin America

  • Thursday, July 2nd 2009 - 12:39 UTC

    Uruguay’s primary election results stun the ruling coalition

    Lacalle and the National Party were the most voted candidate and party

    Uruguay’s main opposition party performed much better than anticipated according to official results of last Sunday’s primary elections for the nomination of presidential candidates for October’s elections.

  • Thursday, July 2nd 2009 - 12:31 UTC

    Honduran interim president rejects OAS ultimatum

    Micheletti said Zelaya is accused of 18 offences including treason and abuse of power.

    Honduran interim president Roberto Micheletti rejected Wednesday an ultimatum from American governments to reinstate ousted leader Manuel Zelaya to the presidency. The ongoing political crisis has sparked new protests in the capital Tegucigalpa which is under military curfew.

  • Thursday, July 2nd 2009 - 12:27 UTC

    Conservative, pro business president takes office in Panama

    Martinelli is a self made millionaire, son of Italian immigrants

    Ricardo Martinelli, the multimillionaire owner of a supermarket chain, was inaugurated as president of Panama on Wednesday. National Assembly President Jose Luis Varela performed the swearing-in and placed the presidential sash on Martinelli, a pro-business conservative who in May defeated a candidate from the ruling center-left party.

  • Thursday, July 2nd 2009 - 08:11 UTC

    Unemployment in Magallanes Region soars to over double a year ago

    Contraction in seasonal activities is hitting hard a Chilean region quite stable in employment terms

    Unemployment in Magallanes Region, extreme south of Chile surged to 6.3% in the March-May quarter which is more than double the same period a year ago, 2.6%, and higher than the previous immediate quarter, 5.8%, according to the latest release from the regional Statistics Office.

  • Thursday, July 2nd 2009 - 04:17 UTC

    Chile looks to desalinization plants to supply water-short north

    Although still costly desalinated water is an extended technology in the Middle East.

    Chile’s Inter-ministry Committee of Hydro Resources thinks it has the solution for the water shortage problems facing the northern city of Copiapo (Region III).

  • Wednesday, July 1st 2009 - 12:33 UTC

    Peruvian government saved from Congressional censure motion

    Prime Minister Simon announced he would be “resigning” in the coming weeks.

    The Peruvian Congress was unable to muster the necessary votes to censure Prime Minister Yehude Simon and Minister of Interior Mercedes Cabanillas over the recent violent clashes in the Amazonia region which left scores of dead both among policemen and the protesting indigenous communities.

  • Wednesday, July 1st 2009 - 12:24 UTC

    Honduras president offers deal to end constitutional crisis

    The OAS has given the interim Honduran government three days to restore ousted President Zelaya to power

    Honduras president Manuel Zelaya offered a deal Tuesday to the military leaders who ousted him - he'll quit in January if allowed to return and serve out his term in office.

  • Tuesday, June 30th 2009 - 15:22 UTC

    Honduran’s Zelaya president vows to return

    Zelaya says he will be back

    The Honduran president ousted by a military coup and forced into exile has said he will return home on Thursday. Speaking in the Nicaraguan capital, Managua, late on Monday, Manuel Zelaya said: “I go to Tegucigalpa on Thursday. I'm the elected president, I will fulfil my four-year term.”

  • Monday, June 29th 2009 - 11:44 UTC

    UN and OAS will address Monday the Honduras coup

    Jose Miguel Insulza meets Monday with Central American leaders.

    The United Nations and the Organization of American States will be addressing Monday the Honduras situation following the military coup which on early Sunday morning ousted constitutionally elected president Jose Manuel Zelaya.

  • Monday, June 29th 2009 - 10:46 UTC

    Punta Arenas expects 30% drop in cruise 2009/2010 activity

    Less cruise vessels, means the whole community looses.

    The Maritime Chamber from Punta Arenas in the extreme south of Chile estimates that the number of visitors for the coming 2009/2010 cruise season could drop up to 30% which is equivalent to 29.000 people less.