Politics

Tuesday, May 13th 2014 - 02:38 UTC
Uruguay agrees to take 8 to 12 Guantanamo prisoners; announcement in 'a couple of weeks'

The administration of president Jose Mujica is willing to take eight to twelve of Guantanamo prisoners as refugees in Uruguay and this could happen once the US Senate approves a bill to that purpose, according to sources from the ministerial delegation currently in Washington.
Monday, May 12th 2014 - 23:56 UTC
Mujica asks Obama support for scientific knowledge and to combat smoking

In an enjoyable press conference at the White House Uruguay's President Jose Mujica spoke about the increasing importance for people in the US to be bilingual, the dangers of smoking and his interest in having access to U.S. knowledge and professors. President Barrack Obama praised the Uruguayan leader's 'extraordinary' credibility and leadership in democracy and human rights issues.
Monday, May 12th 2014 - 23:51 UTC
Lima ranks as the Latin American with best reputation for making business

Lima, capital of Peru outstands as the leading Latin American city to make business, followed by Santiago de Chile, Buenos Aires, Argentina and Sao Paulo, Brazil, although these last two actually dropped from the previous ranking, according to an annual list made by the Bogotá Rosario University.
Monday, May 12th 2014 - 06:54 UTC
Churchill feared in 1942 the Falklands could be taken over by the Japanese

According to the Sunday Express wartime prime minister Winston Churchill feared the opening of a new front in the Falkland Islands and was so concerned about the matter that he sent about 1.000 soldiers to protect the Islands and ensure Britain would not have to retake them.
Monday, May 12th 2014 - 06:51 UTC
Venezuela activists vowed to continue protests despite demolition of camps

Venezuela said it had freed most of the 243 youth activists arrested in raids last week on street camps set up to protest against President Nicolas Maduro's government. Although the demolition of four camps in Caracas was hoped would discourage the three-month protest movement, activists vowed the measure had only strengthened their resolve to demonstrate.
Monday, May 12th 2014 - 06:45 UTC
“Ship of Gold” 156 years later renders its first five bars valued at 1.2 million dollars

At the waning years of the great California Gold Rush, a ship laden around 30,000 pounds of the precious metal on its way to New York was caught in the middle of a vicious hurricane and sunk off the coast of South Carolina with 425 souls aboard.
Monday, May 12th 2014 - 06:34 UTC
Panama elected-president pledges to normalize relations with Venezuela and Colombia

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and Panamanian president-elect Juan Carlos Varela have pledged to waste no time in normalizing relations and re-launching diplomatic, economic and trade ties cut off two months ago, Venezuela's foreign ministry announced. Varela takes office next July first.
Monday, May 12th 2014 - 06:25 UTC
Argentina media makes it a day with the Home Office reference to Malvinas

The Argentine media has given extensive coverage to the Foreign Office's glitch of calling the Falklands by its Spanish name Malvinas in several documents, and the furious reaction in Parliament, as was reported by the Sunday Express.
Sunday, May 11th 2014 - 08:34 UTC
Falklands discusses capital projects investments over the next five years

Falkland Islands members of the Legislative Assembly made an open, public presentation, with feedback, to explain how approximately £61.1 million in available government funds might be divided between capital projects over the next five years.
Saturday, May 10th 2014 - 08:37 UTC
Mujica meets Obama on Monday with a long agenda of issues to discuss

Uruguayan president Jose Mujica flies on Saturday evening to the United States and on Monday at 10:45 will be walking into the White House for a sixty minutes meeting with President Barack Obama. Mujica will be spending five days in Washington where he has scheduled a long list of meetings and conferences.