Politics

• Tuesday, August 10th 2010 - 05:02 UTC

  Raul Castro wants “an opening” with Washington to help with the economy

  

  Cardinal Jaime Ortega, Roman Catholic archbishop of Havana, told The Washington Post that Cuban President Raul Castro wants “an opening” with the United States.

• Tuesday, August 10th 2010 - 01:25 UTC

  Kirchner meets Santos confirms dialogue process with Venezuela

  

  Unasur (Union of South American Nations) secretary general Nestor Kirchner held a meeting Monday with Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos to keep advancing in the dialogue process with neighbouring Venezuela sponsored by the group. Santos and his Venezuelan counterpart are scheduled to meet Tuesday.

• Tuesday, August 10th 2010 - 01:21 UTC

  Lula da Silva underlines as his main legacy relation with the Brazilian people

  

  With less than five months in office and a public opinion support of 80%, President Lula da Silva considers his most important legacy the relation established between the presidency and the Brazilian people.

• Tuesday, August 10th 2010 - 01:15 UTC

  Spanish mayor firm on charging fee to tourists visiting Gibraltar

  

  Alejandro Sánchez, the mayor of La Lineá, the Spanish town which adjoins Gibraltar, held a press conference Monday evening. He was accompanied by his council members and briefed the media on his controversial plans to charge an entrance fee to tourists visiting The Rock.

• Tuesday, August 10th 2010 - 01:12 UTC

  Venezuela will be incorporating several “non-atomic” submarines

  

  Very soon “we will have our submarines cruising” which will be “normal submarines”, with no nuclear capacity at all, pointed out Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, in anticipation of any criticisms “that could suggest such an option”.

• Tuesday, August 10th 2010 - 01:05 UTC

  Chavez rejects newly nominated US ambassador: “he broke rules of diplomacy”

  

  Newly nominated United States Ambassador Larry Palmer will not be allowed to take up his post in Caracas after criticizing Venezuela's government and policies, President Hugo Chávez said.

• Tuesday, August 10th 2010 - 01:02 UTC

  Lugo not to abandon term of office in spite of treatment for cancer

  

  Paraguay’s President Fernando Lugo has a second lymphoma nodule in his chest, doctors assured some days after revealing he had cancer. Sources stated that he is not to abandon his term of office.

• Tuesday, August 10th 2010 - 00:54 UTC

  World Bank pouring 11 billion to build 211 dams with impact on tribal people

  

  To mark the UN Day of Indigenous People, Survival International has released a new report highlighting the devastating impact on tribal people of a massive boom in dam-building for hydropower.

• Tuesday, August 10th 2010 - 00:51 UTC

  UN urges greater protection of the world’s indigenous communities

  

  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the world to step up efforts to improve living conditions of the planet’s indigenous communities and to protect them, saying they continued to suffer discrimination and poverty despite a United Nations declaration that aims to promote their rights.

• Monday, August 9th 2010 - 07:26 UTC

  Gibraltar: Between a Rock and a hard place

  

  La Linea de la Conception is a small Spanish town on the North side of the border with Gibraltar. The fascist dictator Francisco Franco sealed the frontier in 1969 to punish Gibraltar for rejecting his offer of becoming part of Spain.