Latin America

Saturday, October 6th 2012 - 15:09 UTC
Borders and Coast Guards in conflict won’t yield; government looks for scapegoats

Argentina’s Security Ministry decided the intervention of the Border Guards’ Department of Judicial Affairs due to “severe deficiencies” found in the application of the officers' “wage demands”, which led to the current situation that on Friday night was beginning its fifth consecutive day of conflict.
Saturday, October 6th 2012 - 15:06 UTC
Brazil wants Paraguay back in Mercosur following “democracy compliance” test

Brazilian Foreign minister Antonio Patriota said on Friday that Paraguay could resume membership of Mercosur and Unasur without the need to wait for presidential elections next April 2013 as long as “full compliance with democracy” can be verified.
Saturday, October 6th 2012 - 14:58 UTC
Cuban dissident freed; court asks seven years for Spanish youth activist

Cuban authorities released prominent dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez late on Friday after detaining her on the eve of a Spanish activist's high-profile manslaughter trial in the eastern city of Bayamo.
Friday, October 5th 2012 - 22:41 UTC
Pentagon chief flies to Uruguay for Defence Ministers of the Americas conference

United States Defence Secretary Leon Panetta starts on Friday a week-long trip to Peru and Uruguay where he will attend the Conference of Defence Ministers of the Americas, the Pentagon announced on Thursday.
Friday, October 5th 2012 - 20:38 UTC
Cuban prominent blogger detained in Cuba ahead of trial involving Spanish politician

Cuba was reported to have arrested prominent blogger Yoani Sanchez Friday in a crackdown on dissidents as the vehicular manslaughter trial of a Spanish politician got under way here. Angel Carromero, 27 who runs the youth wing of Spain’s ruling Popular Party went on trial for the death of a prominent dissident, Oswaldo Paya, in a car crash near this town in eastern Cuba.
Friday, October 5th 2012 - 20:15 UTC
Southern Europeans flocking to Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela and Mexico

A European Union (EU)-funded IOM study released on Friday on migratory flows in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), and between LAC and the EU, shows a marked increase in migration from the EU to LAC and a marked decrease in the number of LAC migrants entering the EU.
Friday, October 5th 2012 - 19:57 UTC
Capriles claims Chavez ‘handed out’ 9 billion dollars to Mercosur allies

Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles claims that the regime of President Hugo Chavez handed out nine billion dollars to Mercosur members (except for Brazil and Chile) as part of his plan to “export the Bolivarian revolution”.
Friday, October 5th 2012 - 19:48 UTC
Paraguay ‘deplores’ Uruguay’s speech before the UN General Assembly

Paraguay deplored statements from Uruguayan Foreign Minister Luis Almagro who claimed before the United Nations General Assembly in New York that the landlocked country had interrupted ‘democratic order’ when it removed Fernando Lugo from the Executive.
Thursday, October 4th 2012 - 19:40 UTC
Latam expected to expand 3% more in line with global trends, says World Bank

Latin America and the Caribbean region (LAC) will be growing at 3%, more in line with global trends but even with GDP beginning to slow, the region’s unemployment rate stood at 6.5%, approaching historic lows and well below its peak of 11% a decade ago, according to the latest semi-annual report “The Labour Market Story Behind Latin America’s Transformation,” by the World Bank’s Office of the Chief Economist for the region.
Thursday, October 4th 2012 - 19:23 UTC
Latam created 35 million jobs in last decade and helped combat income inequality

Labour markets played an important role the transformation and advance of the Latin American economy in the past decade as more than 35 million additional jobs were created in that period plus the fact that high informality declined in seven out of nine countries of the region.