Latin America

Wednesday, September 25th 2013 - 06:14 UTC
Mujica blasted consumerism and called for political heads to rule the globalized world

In a fiery speech before the UN General Assembly, Uruguayan president Jose Mujica criticized consumerism and waste, electronic surveillance which ‘poisons’ relations among nations, called for a true globalization and blasted individual greed which has “far outstripped the superior greed of the human specie”.
Tuesday, September 24th 2013 - 08:07 UTC
Brazil will continue with the 60bn dollar currency intervention program: ‘it’s working adequately’

Brazil’s central bank chief Alexandre Tombini said on Monday policy makers will continue with their 60 billion dollars currency intervention plan, even after the Real rallied more than any other currency in the world as a consequence of the surprise announcement from the US Fed that for the moment it will not taper the bonds’ buying program to stimulate the US economy
Tuesday, September 24th 2013 - 07:52 UTC
Santos accepts with ‘prudence’ Mujica’s offer to host peace talks with Colombia’s ELN guerrilla

President Juan Manuel Santos was grateful and ‘accepted with prudence’ his Uruguayan peer Jose Mujica offer to host a peace-talks process in Montevideo with the other big guerrilla movement in Colombia, the ELN, National Liberation Army
Friday, September 20th 2013 - 08:35 UTC
Lack of ‘tuning’ and a new historic reality, obstacles for EU/Mercosur trade talks

The lack of ‘tuning’ in trade affairs is not the only motive stalling the decade long Mercosur/European Union trade and cooperation discussions according to EU ambassador in Montevideo, Juan Fernandez Trigo who also included what he described as the ‘new historic reality’.
Friday, September 20th 2013 - 08:31 UTC
Argentina and Brazil address Mercosur and trade discussion with Europe

Argentina’s Hector Timerman and Brazil’s new Foreign minister Luiz Alberto Figueiredo Machado discussed a long agenda of common interest issues during a work meeting held in Buenos Aires, which included Mercosur, trade discussions with Europe, Unasur, Haiti and US cyber-spying in the region among other issues.
Friday, September 20th 2013 - 08:24 UTC
US corn exporters concerned with Mercosur competition in Venezuela

United States corn exporters are concerned with the fact that Venezuela, one of their prime markets, is now a full member of Mercosur, which includes Brazil and Argentina two major exporting countries.
Friday, September 20th 2013 - 07:42 UTC
Over half of Uruguayans (55%) have ‘little’ or ‘no’ interest in politics says poll

A majority of Uruguayans have little or no interest in politics according and most of them are young people, poorly educated and those who consider themselves as ‘centre or centre right’, according to the results of a public opinion poll released on Thursday.
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.