Politics

• 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.

• Sunday, June 13th 2010 - 01:27 UTC

  Major low-cost airline servicing the Caribbean grounded over pay contract

  

  Hundreds of pilots for Spirit Airlines, which services the Caribbean, walked off their jobs early Saturday morning after negotiations over pay broke down. In what industry analysts say is the first strike at a US passenger airline in nearly five years, pilots at the low-cost carrier took industrial action as negotiations reached a stalemate.

• Sunday, June 13th 2010 - 01:20 UTC

  In the even of Vatican top official visit, Cuba frees paraplegic political dissident

  

  The Cuban government has freed a jailed dissident and moved six others to jails closer to their homes. Senior Catholic clergymen had urged Cuban president Raul Castro to release Ariel Sigler, 47, on humanitarian grounds.

• Sunday, June 13th 2010 - 01:18 UTC

  Chavez’ Venezuela “recalls us the times of our won dictatorship`”

  

  The incorporation of Venezuela to Mercosur faces a tough battle in the Paraguayan congress following statements’ from the Upper House president who said that “it recalls us the time of the (Alfredo Stroessner) dictatorship” adding it was difficult to dissociate the country from the figure of Hugo Chavez.