Politics

• Wednesday, May 30th 2012 - 03:50 UTC

  Mining conflict in Peru escalates and will force Humala to take sides

  

  Hundreds of Peruvians marched in support of the country's biggest-ever mining project, a day after the government implemented emergency powers to control an anti-mining protest in the South that turned deadly.

• Tuesday, May 29th 2012 - 22:17 UTC

  Opinion poll shows majority of Chileans want to change the electoral system

  

  A survey released this Thursday placed Chile’s long-controversial binominal electoral system under further scrutiny after revealing that 63.2% of respondents are in favour of electoral reform, while only 24.6% wish to keep the binominal system as is.

• Tuesday, May 29th 2012 - 20:13 UTC

  Fidel Castro an unchallenged master-spy, admits veteran CIA analyst in a book

  

  Almost three decades after Fidel Castro took power, Cuba's budding intelligence service fielded four dozen double agents in a world-class operation under the nose of the CIA, according to a new book by a veteran CIA analyst.

• Tuesday, May 29th 2012 - 20:07 UTC

  “Flame” the most sophisticated malware uncovered targeted Middle East and Israel

  

  A complex targeted cyber-attack that collected private data from countries such as Israel and Iran has been uncovered, researchers have said. Russian security firm Kaspersky Labs told the BBC they believed the malware, known as Flame, had been operating since August 2010.

• Tuesday, May 29th 2012 - 20:02 UTC

  Chile debates legal status of ‘forcibly disappeared’ persons during Pinochet dictatorship

  

  Amnesty International Chile made public its 2012 Annual Report on Human Rights last week putting a special emphasis on justice for victims of human rights atrocities committed during the military dictatorship that ruled the country from 1973-1990.

• Tuesday, May 29th 2012 - 17:49 UTC

  German opposition wants growth targets before supporting EU new fiscal pact

  

  A top ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives appealed to the opposition Social Democrats and Greens to refrain from “playing political games” and back the government to endorse Europe's new fiscal pact and permanent bailout fund.

• Tuesday, May 29th 2012 - 17:47 UTC

  Sweden’s Saab invests in Brazil’s aerospace defence industry

  

  Sweden's premier defense and security company, Saab, is strengthening its relationship with a Brazilian integrator of aero-structures. Saab, manufacturer of the Gripen jet fighter that has partnered in the past with the company Akaer, said it is now financially investing in the company.

• Tuesday, May 29th 2012 - 06:05 UTC

  “Malvinas for Argentina and sea for Bolivia” battle cry at next OAS assembly

  

  Bolivian president Evo Morales announced on Monday he will request at the coming Organization of American States, OAS General Assembly to be held in Cochabamba that the issues of Malvinas Argentine sovereignty and a sea outlet for Bolivia be discussed.

• Tuesday, May 29th 2012 - 05:59 UTC

  Peruvian government fights anti-Xstrata mine protestors: 2 dead and 50 injured

  

  Two people were killed and 50 were injured in protests against Xstrata's Peruvian copper mine Tintaya on Monday, prompting the government to suspend freedom of assembly in a bid to break roadblocks isolating the mine.

• Tuesday, May 29th 2012 - 04:33 UTC

  Regional UN decolonization seminar in Quito with Syrian rapporteur

  

  The UN Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, also known as the Special Committee of 24, will hold its regional Pacific seminar on decolonization in Quito, Ecuador, from 30 May to 1 June 2012.