Politics

• Monday, June 14th 2010 - 04:27 UTC

  Serra blasts Lula da Silva’s foreign policy in ‘support of dictators’

  

  Brazil can’t continue to support dictators and regimes that ignore human rights, said opposition presidential hopeful during the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, PSDB, national convention that confirmed him as his grouping’s candidate for October 3.

• Monday, June 14th 2010 - 04:24 UTC

  Rousseff promises a Lula da Silva tailored Brazil with a woman’s heart and soul

  

  President Lula da Silva’s former cabinet chief Dilma Rousseff was officially proclaimed Sunday as the ruling Workers’ Party presidential candidate for the coming October elections.

• Monday, June 14th 2010 - 04:21 UTC

  India’s giant iron ore project in Bolivia stalled; China also interested

  

  Bolivia and India’s Jindal Steel & Power one of the world’s leading steel manufacturers are scheduled to sign an addendum to the contract for the exploitation of the Mutún iron ore reserves with the purpose of unlocking the “lack of investments” according to Mines minister Jose Pimentel.

• Monday, June 14th 2010 - 04:17 UTC

  Cuba for the first time names agronomist as Minister of Agriculture

  

  Cuba has removed General Ulises Rosales Toro as agricultural minister and made him a technical adviser for the island's sugar, agricultural and food production industries. A government statement Saturday characterized the move as a promotion for Rosales. He remains a member of the powerful Politburo.

• Monday, June 14th 2010 - 04:15 UTC

  Santos is forecasted to win next Sunday by a wide margin

  

  Colombian incumbent presidential candidate Juan Manuel Santos is poised for an overwhelming victory in next Sunday’s runoff according to the latest public opinion polls published Sunday in Bogotá’s main newspapers.

• Monday, June 14th 2010 - 04:08 UTC

  Colombian forces liberate two top police forces help as hostages for 12 years

  

  The Colombian military on Sunday rescued Gen. Luis Mendieta and Col. Enrique Murillo, two top national police officers held by the FARC guerrillas for nearly 12 years, President Alvaro Uribe announced.

• Monday, June 14th 2010 - 03:58 UTC

  Protestors receive Falklands’ bound Lan Chile flight in Rio Gallegos

  

  As had been anticipated a dissident group of Malvinas veterans protested at the Argentine airport of Rio Gallegos during the Saturday stop over of the weekly Lan Chile flight to the Falkland Islands.

• Monday, June 14th 2010 - 03:52 UTC

  “I’m running again but my name now is Dilma Roussef” said Lula da Silva

  

  President Lula da Silva said that this coming October election will be the first since 1985 that his name won’ figure, “but to fill that void I will change my name and I will call myself Dilma Rousseff”.

• Sunday, June 13th 2010 - 03:23 UTC

  Mrs. Clinton promises to sponsor US/Colombia trade agreement

  

  US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promised this week after meeting with Colombian president Alvaro Uribe that when she returns to Washington she will begin “a very intensive effort to try to obtain the votes to get the free trade agreement with Colombia finally ratified”.

• Sunday, June 13th 2010 - 01:31 UTC

  UK Deputy PM Clegg reaffirms Falklands’ British sovereignty

  

  Britain’s Deputy Primer Minister Liberal-Democrat Nick Clegg said in Spain there will be no change in the stance of the Falkland Islands sovereignty and the Islanders wish to remain British.