Politics

• Friday, September 3rd 2010 - 05:26 UTC

  Budget days: Uruguay GDP forecasted to expand 30% in five years

  

  It’s budget time in Uruguay and the government has presented to Congress its revenue and expenditure estimates (821 articles) based on a five-year forecast for the economy, which private analyst consider too rosy.

• Friday, September 3rd 2010 - 05:11 UTC

  Former PM Blair warns Labour not to drift to the left

  

  As voting began in the election to choose a new British Labour leader, former prime minister Tony Blair issued a warning to the party not to drift to the left. Although he made no endorsement in his memoirs, published this week, of any of the five candidates to succeed Gordon Brown, Mr Blair's comments will be seen as a mark of support for front-runner David Miliband over his brother Ed.

• Thursday, September 2nd 2010 - 22:22 UTC

  Bolivia returns “privatized” stake in cement factory to local government

  

  Bolivian President Evo Morales announced Wednesday the expropriation and transfer to a provincial government of the 33% stake in the regional cement factory Fancesa.

• Thursday, September 2nd 2010 - 21:53 UTC

  Santos invites Brazil to list the FARC guerrilla as a “terrorist group”

  

  Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos said the best way Brazil can help to find a solution to the internal conflict of Colombia is by declaring the FARC guerrilla a “terrorist group”.

• Thursday, September 2nd 2010 - 21:41 UTC

  Anti-corruption academy with UN and EU sponsoring opens in Austria

  

  An anti-corruption academy co-sponsored by the United Nations opened Thursday in Austria with the aim of filling the rising global need for training, research and contemporary measures and techniques in the fight against corruption.

• Thursday, September 2nd 2010 - 21:08 UTC

  Argentina calls on Mercosur to become world’s main agro-food business region

  

  Argentine president Cristina Kirchner called on Mercosur partners to convert the group into the world’s leading agro-food business region and to put an end to asymmetries.

• Thursday, September 2nd 2010 - 14:56 UTC

  Falklands’ government awards public relations 3 year contract to Edelman

  

  The Falkland Islands Government has appointed Edelman to provide public relations support for the next three years.

• Thursday, September 2nd 2010 - 07:37 UTC

  Rousseff promises, if elected, full support for Colombian president Santos

  

  Brazilian incumbent presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff held on Wednesday a private meeting with visiting Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos and promised if elected that Brazil would continue with its willingness to mediate with the Colombian FARC guerrillas, as long as Bogotá formally makes a request.

• Thursday, September 2nd 2010 - 07:30 UTC

  Venezuela buying out land and cattle belonging to the UK Vestey family

  

  Venezuela will buy a group of large farms and thousands of cattle from a British company announced President Hugo Chavez as part of his populist drive to redistribute land among the country’s peasants.

• Thursday, September 2nd 2010 - 07:25 UTC

  Jewish community in Venezuela shrinks by half

  

  If someone were to rank the most embattled Jewish communities in the world today, the Jewish community of Venezuela would certainly be high on that list. Over the past decade the community has shrunk by half its size, according to a report from Gil Shefler published in the Jerusalem Post.