Politics

• Monday, October 5th 2009 - 13:45 UTC

  Argentina mourns folk singer Mercedes Sola, the “voice of Latinamerica”

  

  Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa, the 'voice of Latinamerica' whose music inspired opponents of South America's brutal military regimes and led to her forced exile in Europe, died on Sunday at 5.15 am after have battled for more than 13 days a delicate health condition.

• Monday, October 5th 2009 - 13:41 UTC

  Unesco safeguard for Andean Aymara cultural heritage

  

  Unesco’s support for the project to safeguard the intangible cultural heritage of the Aymara communities of Bolivia, Chile and Peru should be seen as an example for Latinamerica, according to Peruvian anthropologist Soledad Mujica.

• Monday, October 5th 2009 - 13:33 UTC

  Pope warns Africa about “first world toxic materialism” colonialism

  

  Pope Benedict has warned that a form of colonialism continues to blight Africa. Opening a three-week synod of African bishops, he said political colonialism was over. But he said the developed world continued to export materialism - which he called “toxic spiritual rubbish” - to the continent.

• Monday, October 5th 2009 - 13:27 UTC

  Czech under pressure to sign Lisbon Treaty following Ireland’s YES

  

  Following the decisive Yes vote by the Irish electorate, EU leaders have called on Eurosceptic Czech president Vaclav Klaus to stop holding up the democratic will of all Europeans and sign the Lisbon Treaty.

• Monday, October 5th 2009 - 13:23 UTC

  Lisbon Treaty controversy looms over the Conservative party conference

  

  Britain’s Tory leader David Cameron is fighting to prevent a damaging new rift over Europe dominating his party's final conference before the general election.

• Monday, October 5th 2009 - 13:10 UTC

  Bolivia faces critics over purchase of aircrafts from China

  

  Bolivia said on Sunday that it’s the South American country which least invests in military hardware and ratified it is not involved in any arms race. Defence minister Walker San Miguel statement follow the Bolivian decision to purchase six aircrafts from China which come on top of an open credit line for military hardware extended by Russia.

• Monday, October 5th 2009 - 13:08 UTC

  Uribe asks for more time to consolidate his “democratic security” policy

  

  Colombian president Alvaro Uribe asked for more time to defeat the terrorism that scourges his country and underlined that his “democratic security” policy needs a ‘little while’ longer”.

• Monday, October 5th 2009 - 13:01 UTC

  Elections Brazilian style: 13% of voters confess to have “traded” their vote

  

  An estimated 17 million Brazilians, 13% of the electorate, confessed to have traded their vote for money, job or gifts, according to a public opinion poll released Sunday by Folha de Sao Paulo.

• Sunday, October 4th 2009 - 10:50 UTC

  Falkland Islands’ Government at UK Party Conferences

  

  The Falkland Islands Government (FIG) will be represented at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester from 5-8 October. Last week FIG was present at the Labor Party conference in Brighton.

• Sunday, October 4th 2009 - 10:48 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner: “One day this century an Argentine president will visit Malvinas”

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said that one day this century an Argentine president will be able to visit the Malvinas Islands to homage the Argentine soldiers who died in the war with Britain 27 years ago and are buried in the Falklands.