Latin America

• Tuesday, December 8th 2009 - 04:18 UTC

  Honduras winning party with strong majority in Congress

  

  Honduras November 29th election winner (Conservative) National party will have a clear majority in Congress according to the latest reports from the country’s electoral authorities.

• Tuesday, December 8th 2009 - 04:14 UTC

  Venezuela tackles crime, 20% of which committed by the police force

  

  Almost a fifth of all registered crimes in Venezuela are committed by law enforcement officers, particularly those most violent such as kidnapping and homicides, revealed Home Secretary Tareck El Aisammi.

• Monday, December 7th 2009 - 23:41 UTC

  Chile, gateway for illegal phony name brands products mainly from China

  

  Phony name brand products produced in China are increasingly a headache for Chile’s customs and police authorities.

• Monday, December 7th 2009 - 12:29 UTC

  A two-day busy Mercosur summit begins Monday in Montevideo

  

  Uruguay is hosting as of Monday the Mercosur bi-annual presidential summit which will have as top issue of the agenda trade differences among its members, particularly Argentina and Brazil, and on the sidelines contacts of Uruguay’s president-elect Jose Mujica with leaders from Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay

• Monday, December 7th 2009 - 11:22 UTC

  Landslide victory and Senate majority for Evo Morales in Bolivia

  

  Bolivian president Evo Morales won by a landslide majority in Sunday’s general elections and according to exit polls has ensured the Senate two thirds majority needed to continue with his reforms program some of them considered controversial.

• Monday, December 7th 2009 - 10:45 UTC

  Brazil prepared to extend political asylum to Zelaya

  

  The Brazilian government is considering extending political asylum to Honduran ousted president Manuel Zelaya who remains holed in at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa since last September according to reports in the Sunday press.

• Saturday, December 5th 2009 - 09:21 UTC

  OAS commemorates 25th anniversary of Argentine/Chile peace treaty

  

  During its regular session Friday at OAS headquarters in Washington, the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) commemorated the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Peace and Friendship Treaty between the Republics of Argentina and Chile.

• Saturday, December 5th 2009 - 09:20 UTC

  President-elect Lobo “best positioned” to return democratic rule to Honduras

  

  Washington based Organization of American States Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza said on Friday that Honduras president –elect Porfirio Lobo is the person “best positioned” to boost the restoration of democratic rule in the Central American country.

• Saturday, December 5th 2009 - 09:14 UTC

  Brazil and Peru create integrated border area in Amazon states

  

  Brazilian president Lula da Silva will be signing with his Peruvian peer Alan García next week in Lima the creation of an integrated zone in the Amazon.

• Saturday, December 5th 2009 - 02:56 UTC

  Mosquito transmitted dengue is back in Paraguay with 59 reported cases

  

  Paraguay has admitted 59 cases of the mosquito transmitted disease dengue mostly concentrated in the north of the land-locked tropical country.