Politics

• Wednesday, November 24th 2010 - 00:50 UTC

  World leaders promise funds and plan to double tigers in the wild by 2022

  

  World leaders and countries that have wild tigers endorsed a major plan to double the number of tigers in the wild by 2022 underscoring their commitments at the historic International Tiger Conservation Forum.

• Tuesday, November 23rd 2010 - 22:59 UTC

  The challenge of “breaking mental barriers” to promote Mercosur and Unasur

  

  Brazil’s influential Foreign Affairs minister Celso Amorim revealed that his major obstacle in his eight years in the post was “breaking mental barriers” particularly in advancing relations among countries in the South and promoting such organizations as Mercosur and Unasur.

• Tuesday, November 23rd 2010 - 19:16 UTC

  Argentina requests IMF technical aid to help with a new prices index

  

  Argentina’s Economy minister Amado Boudou announced Tuesday that the President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's administration is to request aid from the International Monetary Fund to help with a new price index.

• Tuesday, November 23rd 2010 - 04:28 UTC

  Irish PM will call early election after austerity budget is passed

  

  Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen defied mounting pressure to quit and announced Monday he would stay in office until parliament passed an austerity budget needed to secure an IMF/EU bailout and then call an early election.

• Tuesday, November 23rd 2010 - 03:22 UTC

  Chavez announces 2012 re-election bid and warns on the return of the ‘bourgeois’

  

  Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez announced he would again run for office in 2012 underlining that “there’s no turning back” from the current “Bolivarian revolution” process which he has been leading for the last twelve years.

• Tuesday, November 23rd 2010 - 03:02 UTC

  Brazil’s air transport infrastructure is a “growing disaster”, says IATA

  

  The chief of the International Air Transport Association or IATA sharply criticized the poor condition of Brazil airports, saying that the situation could put the country in a very bad light during the World Cup and the Olympic Games if the government does not improve capacity and renovate aging infrastructure.

• Tuesday, November 23rd 2010 - 02:54 UTC

  Brazilian president-elect plans to maintain central bank’s “operational autonomy”

  

  Brazil’s President-elect Dilma Rousseff plans to maintain the central bank’s operational autonomy and also will keep the position of central bank president as a Cabinet-level post, according to reliable sources close to the leader.

• Monday, November 22nd 2010 - 20:45 UTC

  Bolivia rejects US warning and will have dealings with whomever it wishes

  

  Bolivian President Evo Morales delivered a blunt reply on Monday to visiting US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates's warning about dealings with Iran, saying Bolivia will ally with whomever it wants.

• Monday, November 22nd 2010 - 19:14 UTC

  Trade among Latinamerican countries expected to increase 22% in 2010

  

  Trade among Latinamerican countries is expected to increase 22% during 2010, which is higher than forecasted, according to the UN Economic Commission for Latinamerica and the Caribbean, Cepal. This follows a drop of 0.9% in 2009 when the full impact of the global crisis.

• Monday, November 22nd 2010 - 04:11 UTC

  EU/Mercosur trade agreement still far away, say Spanish analysts

  

  The European Union Mercosur trade agreement is still far from becoming a reality and the coming Ibero-American summit in Mar del Plata early December is not expected to signal any significant achievement in this field, according to Spanish political analysts who anticipate some advances towards the end of next year.