Politics

• Saturday, April 2nd 2011 - 20:27 UTC

  Malvinas voluntary soldier letter to be read in all Argentine schools as of 2012

  

  President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner announced that the letter written by a teacher and voluntary soldier in the 1982 Malvinas War conflict and which he sent to his pupils is to be read in all Argentine schools beginning 2012.

• Saturday, April 2nd 2011 - 20:09 UTC

  Unasur leaders letter to Ban Ki-moon in support of Argentina’s Malvinas claim

  

  Unasur (Union of South American Nations) leaders sent UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon a letter dated April 2 in support of Argentina’s sovereignty claim over the Falklands Islands.

• Saturday, April 2nd 2011 - 19:42 UTC

  Visiting officials to Argentina will have pay homage at the Malvinas cenotaph

  

  Argentina will change its official protocol for visiting officials: besides the traditional flower wreath at the monument of General Jose de San Martin, visitors will also have to pay homage to the fallen in the Malvinas Islands at the cenotaph with their names at the Wall pages.

• Saturday, April 2nd 2011 - 19:36 UTC

  Malvinas are Argentine for ever and “we will never yield in our claim”

  

  “The Malvinas are Argentine for ever” and this government “will never yield in our claim” promised President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner during the main commemoration of the Malvinas war Fallen and Veterans Day in Rio Gallegos, Santa Cruz province.

• Saturday, April 2nd 2011 - 17:39 UTC

  Spanish Socialist PM steps down from 2012 re-election bid

  

  The Socialist Spanish Prime Minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, says he will not seek a third term in the country’s general election next year. Spain is in the midst of a deep recession. At 20% it has the highest unemployment rate in the Euro zone.

• Saturday, April 2nd 2011 - 15:56 UTC

  Chile Medical Schools’ accreditation system for students sparks controversy

  

  Out of the 19 universities in Chile whose students took the Examen Médico Nacional (EMN), (National Medicine Exam) three accounted for over half of the students who failed the test.

• Saturday, April 2nd 2011 - 15:46 UTC

  Timerman recalls April 2 Falklands’ invasion saying Argentina is not alone in its Malvinas sovereignty claim

  

  Argentina has the support of numerous international organizations and regional forums in its sovereignty claim over the Malvinas Islands, writes Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman in an article under the heading of “Argentina is not alone in its Malvinas claim”

• Saturday, April 2nd 2011 - 08:21 UTC

  Moyano hails as personal victory the increase by 20% of minimum income tax floor

  

  Argentina’s powerful organized Labour Confederation leader Hugo Moyano celebrated Friday as a victory for the “workers movement” that the government of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner decided to raise by 20% the minimum income tax floor.

• Saturday, April 2nd 2011 - 06:53 UTC

  The delicate balance of ‘cooperation’ and ‘competition’ between China and Brazil

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff and her Chinese peer Hu Jintao will address the Libyan crisis and other issues related to the Chinese currency, Yuan, which has Brazilian manufacturers most concerned, anticipated the Brazilian Foreign Affairs ministry.

• Saturday, April 2nd 2011 - 06:51 UTC

  Brazilian congress set to approve this week compensation for Paraguayan power

  

  The Brazilian government is intent in increasing to 360 million US dollars annual payment for the surplus power from the world’s largest operational hydroelectric dam Itaipu, shared with Paraguay promised Marco Aurerlio Garcia President Dilma Rousseff international affairs advisor and special envoy.