Politics

• Tuesday, November 30th 2010 - 05:49 UTC

  OAS and Caricom validate Sunday’s election in Haiti in spite of fraud allegations

  

  The Organization of American States, OAS, and the countries of the Caribbean Common Market, Caricom, have validated Sunday’s presidential election despite irregularities that generated protests and allegations of fraud.

• Tuesday, November 30th 2010 - 05:45 UTC

  Irish bail out package fails markets’ test; growing fears about Portugal and Spain

  

  The Euro has fallen against the dollar and major European markets have dropped sharply, a day after ministers agreed a bail-out for the Irish Republic. On Sunday, European ministers reached agreement over a bail-out worth about 85bn Euros.

• Tuesday, November 30th 2010 - 05:43 UTC

  Belgium joins list of European countries with mounting financial problems

  

  Belgium has joined Portugal, Spain and Italy on the hit list of countries that may be heading for financial crisis. Like Ireland, struggling to fend off criticism of its austerity package, there are signs that international bond investors are starting to view Belgium as living on borrowed money and borrowed time.

• Tuesday, November 30th 2010 - 05:35 UTC

  Paraguay summons US ambassador: who wasn’t spied or followed?

  

  Paraguay's Foreign Minister, Héctor Lacognata, summoned US Ambassador in Asunción Liliana Ayalde to express the concerns raised among the Paraguayan government after Wikileaks reported that US diplomats have been conducting numerous espionage activities within the country.

• Tuesday, November 30th 2010 - 05:31 UTC

  Hillary praises US diplomats: “they are doing the work we want them to do”

  

  US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, gave a press conference Monday in which she responded and charged against online whistle-blower Wikileaks after the worldwide diplomatic repercussions over the contents of 250,000 classified documents.

• Tuesday, November 30th 2010 - 03:30 UTC

  WikiLeaks reveal Brazil’s intelligent policy towards alleged terrorist activities

  

  United States secret diplomatic messages released Sunday through WikiLeaks reveal that Brazilian authorities arrested “several suspects allegedly involved in terrorism financing activities”, but basically accused them of different charges “so as not attract attention from the press or high government levels”.

• Tuesday, November 30th 2010 - 01:25 UTC

  New Brazilian government ratifies Lula da Silva’s regional foreign policy

  

  Brazilian president-elect Dilma Rousseff has confirmed President Lula da Silva’s international affairs special advisor Marco Aurelio García in his post, another clear signal that the incoming administration wants to continue with the “good neighbour” policy towards Latinamerica and such organizations as Mercosur and Unasur.

• Monday, November 29th 2010 - 20:01 UTC

  Unasur ban‘huge negative impact’ on Falkland Islands?

  

  “A HUGE negative impact on us,” is how one Falklands fishing company views the Union of South American Nations’ declared intention to close their ports to Falklands flagged vessels, or in their words, ‘the illegal flag of the Malvinas’.

• Monday, November 29th 2010 - 07:08 UTC

  Cristina Kirchner clearly imposes her leadership and is frontrunner for 2011

  

  In spite of the US State Department alleged concerns regarding the mental health of Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (one of the latest 250.000 documents released by WikiLeaks), a month after the death of her husband and political partner Nestor Kirchner the lady is riding on a wave of popularity and has clearly imposed leadership, according to political analysts.

• Monday, November 29th 2010 - 06:49 UTC

  Haiti presidential candidates claim elections were rigged; UN urges for calm

  

  Unite Nations officials Sunday expressed “deep concern at numerous incidents” that disrupted Haiti's pivotal national elections that saw violence and protests over alleged fraud.