Politics

• Wednesday, November 17th 2010 - 06:42 UTC

  Mercosur/EU ready market access proposals for next round of trade talks

  

  Mercosur and European Union delegates are scheduled to meet at the end of the month or early December in Brasilia for a new round of talks leading to a wide ranging trade agreement which both sides have agreed should be ready to conclude negotiations in the first half of 2011.

• Wednesday, November 17th 2010 - 02:02 UTC

  Latinamerica/Europe forum on business promotion in the region

  

  Leading Latinamerican corporations and European investors will be participating in Madrid at the XII Latibex three-day forum organized by Spain’s securities markets.

• Tuesday, November 16th 2010 - 22:44 UTC

  A “regulatory framework”, Lula da Silva’s farewell present for Brazilian media

  

  Brazil is drafting a media bill that is geared to stimulate the participation of common citizens in the communications industry and preventing market rules from governing such a sensitive area, announced Social Communications minister Franklin Martins.

• Tuesday, November 16th 2010 - 22:35 UTC

  HMS Manchester first RN vessel to dock in Havana since 1959

  

  Type 42 Destroyer HMS Manchester has become the first Royal Navy ship to make an official visit to Cuba since the country's 1959 revolution. The ship landed at the Sierra Maestra pier in Havana on Monday for the beginning of a five-day visit.

• Tuesday, November 16th 2010 - 22:29 UTC

  US cancel exchange of sensitive information with Argentina because of “leaks”

  

  The Argentine government admitted that a confidential communication channel with the US on financial operations was interrupted mid 2009 following Washington’s suspicions that data sent to Buenos Aires was used for political purposes.

• Tuesday, November 16th 2010 - 22:21 UTC

  “Global crisis is not over, getting worse” says the richest man on earth

  

  “The global crisis is not over, nothing has been solved, only patches to avoid the worst effects of a great depression”, according to Carlos Slim, the Mexican tycoon considered by Forbes the wealthiest man on earth, currently in Buenos Aires for a round of conferences.

• Tuesday, November 16th 2010 - 05:02 UTC

  Top French sociologist fears a “populist” temptation in Brazil’s new government

  

  Brazilian president-elect Dilma Rousseff was a creation of President Lula da Silva and could fall prey to the temptation of a populist system, said French Sociologist and political scientist Alain Touraine currently visiting Sao Paulo.

• Tuesday, November 16th 2010 - 05:00 UTC

  Argentina and Club of Paris creditors agree to discussions with no IMF auditing

  

  The Paris Club of creditor nations accepted Argentina’s request to hold talks on restructuring its estimated 6.7 billion US dollar of debt without the oversight of the International Monetary Fund, announced on Monday President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

• Tuesday, November 16th 2010 - 04:59 UTC

  Chavez provokes the opposition by naming controversial general

  

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez promoted a general criticized for vowing not to cooperate with opposition leaders should they take power after 2012 elections, raising tensions in the run-up toward the vote.

• Tuesday, November 16th 2010 - 04:57 UTC

  Teheran Times says Argentina is like an occupied country (‘b-y Israel and Jews’)

  

  London-based Tehran Times newspaper published a controversial editorial on the international conflict Argentina and Iran are currently immersed into over the AMIA bombing probe. The newspaper assured “the influence of Israel and the Jews on the internal affairs of Argentina increased greatly and the South American nation now seems like an occupied country.”