Politics

• Friday, November 12th 2010 - 00:44 UTC

  Two-minute silence marked Remembrance Day in United Kingdom

  

  Millions of people across the UK held a two-minute silence at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month to mark Remembrance Day, or Armistice Day.

• Thursday, November 11th 2010 - 22:04 UTC

  Latin American leaders at G-20 call for responsibility from rich countries

  

  Leaders from Brazil, Mexico and Argentina in the framework of the G-20 summit in Korea called on rich countries for a commitment to end the “currencies war” and ensure balanced growth out of the current crisis.

• Thursday, November 11th 2010 - 21:35 UTC

  Former FARC hostage claims Colombia treats her “as a criminal, not a victim”

  

  Ingrid Betancourt, a former Colombian presidential candidate who was held captive by the FARC guerrilla for six years, accuses Colombia of treating her “worse than a criminal” since she was rescued in 2008, according to reports in the Argentine press.

• Thursday, November 11th 2010 - 21:07 UTC

  “Scandinavian taxes, Central American services” complains Uruguayan president

  

  Uruguay’s president Jose Mujica admitted his frustration in ruling the South American democracy because between the power of the unions and the huge state bureaucracy it virtually “impedes you from getting anything done”.

• Thursday, November 11th 2010 - 20:29 UTC

  Chilean government supports Muslim school girl use of ‘hijab’

  

  Yasmin Elsayed, a 9-year old girl who was prohibited from wearing a hijab (an Islamic head scarf) at the W. A. Mozart School in the La Reina borough of Chile’s capital Santiago, was allowed to register again for the 2011 school year this week.

• Thursday, November 11th 2010 - 20:13 UTC

  Disappearance of Kirchner further splits Argentina’s main opposition group

  

  Argentina’s main opposition group the so called “Federal Peronism”, dissidents from the ruling movement admitted going through a serious “crisis” because of the diverging opinions amongst its leaders, several of them 2011 presidential hopefuls.

• Thursday, November 11th 2010 - 16:32 UTC

  Falklands’ Defence Row

  

  The controversy over Britain’s ability to defend the Falkland Islands against Argentine attack has continued in the United Kingdom with the former Defence Secretary at the time of the 1982 invasion, Sir John Nott, joining in.

• Thursday, November 11th 2010 - 14:42 UTC

  Cervantes Institute opening in Gibraltar next December “inevitably” political

  

  Spain’s Instituto Cervantes director Carmen Caffarel has declared that the opening of a branch of the prestigious academic institute in Britain’s Overseas Territory Gibraltar, is “inevitably” due to political reasons, as a consequence of the Cordoba Agreements achieved by the Tripartite Forum (UK, Spain and Gibraltar).

• Thursday, November 11th 2010 - 11:41 UTC

  Transition processes in Argentina and Brazil seen from Washington

  

  The Washington Post in one of this week’s editorials referred to the ‘transition process’ going on in South America’s two largest economies, Argentina and Brazil, after almost a decade of populist leadership.

• Thursday, November 11th 2010 - 06:15 UTC

  Obama arrives in Seoul but a G-20 summit consensus still out of reach

  

  President Barack Obama tried to swing the G20 spotlight back onto global imbalances and take his own country's policies out of the glare as world leaders gathered in Seoul.