Latin America

Friday, September 20th 2013 - 07:27 UTC
Falklands’ referendum, ‘credibility plus’ for Islanders say impressed Panamanian political delegation

The Falkland Islands referendum of last March gave credibility to the Islanders’ position in their political cause according to a multi party delegation of visiting Panamanian parliamentarians, reports the latest edition of the Penguin News.
Thursday, September 19th 2013 - 21:23 UTC
Brazilian presidential hopeful steps down from Rousseff’s coalition

Eduardo Campos, one of Brazil's most popular state governors, came one step closer to a presidential bid this week when his party withdrew from President Dilma Rousseff's seventeen parties’ coalition government. The Brazilian Socialist Party decided to pull its two ministers from Rousseff's cabinet to give Campos freedom to run in elections in October 2014.
Thursday, September 19th 2013 - 19:06 UTC
Venezuelan youth crime: blame it on Spiderman and other ‘idolized super.-heroes’

President Nicolas Maduro blamed Spiderman and other ‘idolized super heroes’ of US television cartoons for the growing youth crime in Venezuela, which has become one of the most violent countries in Latinamerica.
Thursday, September 19th 2013 - 07:36 UTC
HMS Lancaster visits Colombia to participate in the multinational exercise Unitas

The Royal Navy warship HMS Lancaster has visited Colombia to strengthen relationships with the country. The vessel called at the port of Cartagena ahead of Exercise Unitas, a multinational exercise being played out in the region headed by the US Navy.
Thursday, September 19th 2013 - 07:18 UTC
“One child-one laptop” program in Uruguay has failed to improve results in maths and reading

The Uruguayan pioneering program “one child-one laptop” did not improve their performance in basic subjects such as maths and reading, according to a report from the country’s Institute of Economy and financed by the same education authorities. The report also points out to the lack of content in the laptops and the poor training of teachers.
Wednesday, September 18th 2013 - 21:33 UTC
Malvinas: Uruguay also considers it has historic sovereignty rights over the Islands

Uruguay has founded claims over Malvinas Islands sovereignty based on international treaties and proclamations dating back to the nineteenth and eighteenth centuries, according to a paper put to consideration of the ruling coalition program draft committee, it was revealed by the Montevideo press.
Wednesday, September 18th 2013 - 20:55 UTC
FARC reiterate call for a Colombia truth commission at Havana peace talks

Colombia’s Marxist rebel organization, FARC reiterated on Wednesday its call to the Colombian government to establish a truth commission to deal with the history of the internal conflict in the country that goes back to 1964.
Wednesday, September 18th 2013 - 20:30 UTC
Paraguay businesses react to Cartes words: ‘first find the scoundrels and only then the claims’

Paraguay’s Industrial Union, UIP, reacted strongly to President Horacio Cartes claims that the private sector was responsible for much that is wrong in government, and suggested an ‘intelligence work’ in the civil service to catch the ‘scoundrels and corrupt’.
Wednesday, September 18th 2013 - 19:43 UTC
Argentina’s YPF main partner, Chevron, blasted by Correa who is expected in Buenos Aires

A couple of days before Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa is set to arrive in Argentina he sank his right hand into the bushes of the Ecuadorean Amazon and then showed it to the dozens of journalists summoned for the demonstration: it was covered in oil.
Wednesday, September 18th 2013 - 07:05 UTC
Cristina Fernandez on the trail campaign ahead of the October mid-term election

Argentine President Cristina Fernández was again on the campaign trail on Tuesday participating in several inaugurations and political rallies at the province of Buenos Aires in support of her candidate running for Congress in October’s mid term ballot, Martin Insurralde.