Politics

• Monday, June 15th 2009 - 13:12 UTC

  With four million unemployed, no room for immigrants

  

  “The Spanish economy can’t take any more migrant labour” said Spanish Labour Minister Celestino Corbacho in an interview with one of Madrid’s main Sunday newspapers.

• Monday, June 15th 2009 - 12:59 UTC

  Peruvian president supports cabinet and admits mistakes

  

  Peruvian president Alan García gave his full support to cabinet chief Yehude Simon and Interior minister Mercedes Cabanillas, whom the opposition are demanding they resign because of the violent clashes with indigenous communities which left over 50 dead (half of them policemen) in the Amazonia province.

• Monday, June 15th 2009 - 12:54 UTC

  World economy must remain in Intensive Care, says G8

  

  The world's largest economies are beginning to stabilise but still face major risks amid an ongoing global recession, according to G8 finance ministers. At a meeting in Italy of G8 nations, the ministers said stock markets were rising, interest rates more stable, and consumer confidence was returning.

• Monday, June 15th 2009 - 12:50 UTC

  Former Uruguayan president favours eliminating Mercosur parliament

  

  Former Uruguayan president and the leading presidential hopeful of the main opposition party Luis Alberto Lacalle said that the Mercosur Parliament, Parlasur, lacks all meaning and purpose and proposed its dissolution, in an interview published Sunday in the Montevideo press.

• Monday, June 15th 2009 - 12:47 UTC

  Airbus calls for prudence on the cause of Flight 447 accident

  

  European manufacturer of Airbus aircrafts cautioned against speculations about the causes of the Flight 447 accident this month in the Atlantic Ocean and strongly defended the safety record of the A330.

• Saturday, June 13th 2009 - 06:11 UTC

  US Congress offers support for Peruvian Amazonia land disputes

  

  The United States Government and Congress will support Peru in finding a solution through dialogue, with indigenous communities regarding the improvement of the Forestry and Wildlife Law, which is essential for the for the implementation of the bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA), the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism (Mincetur) reported Friday.

• Saturday, June 13th 2009 - 05:47 UTC

  Brazil considers G8 is no longer a valid political decision group

  

  “G 8 is over as a political decision group” since “it represents nothing at all” and it’s not a valid instrument to address the reform of the global financial system, said Brazil’s Foreign Affairs minister Celso Amorim during a seminar in Paris on Mercosur.

• Friday, June 12th 2009 - 21:43 UTC

  Payments to Chilean businesses in Venezuela delayed

  

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has rescheduled his visit to Chile yet again, amidst growing tensions related to his country’s failure to make timely payments to 52 Chilean businesses – a sum amounting to more than 80 million US dollars.

• Friday, June 12th 2009 - 18:29 UTC

  Public opinion rapidly loosing enchantment with Mercosur

  

  Mercosur supports significant institutional deficits, lacks clear bearings, negotiations with the European Union are stalled and there is a devalued public opinion perception of the block, which is attempting to become a customs union.

• Friday, June 12th 2009 - 18:22 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Weekly Penguin News Update

  

  Headlines: “No place for claim” UK representative’s message to Argentina; Community Safety director: recruitment to begin overseas; Swine flu increase in Chile, Falklands still clear.