Politics

• Sunday, August 2nd 2009 - 12:01 UTC

  Venezuela turns off 34 broadcasting stations

  

  Radio stations in Venezuela have begun to fall silent in the wake of government orders to some broadcasters to cease operations. The Circuito Nacional Belfort Network, CNB, station in Caracas was among the first to stop broadcasting Saturday morning. At least four other CNB stations also went off the air.

• Sunday, August 2nd 2009 - 11:46 UTC

  Number of failed banks in the US reached 69 so far this year

  

  United States banks in New Jersey, Ohio, Florida, Oklahoma and Illinois were shut, pushing the toll of failed US lenders to 69 this year. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was named the receiver of the five banks, the regulator said in e-mailed statements.

• Sunday, August 2nd 2009 - 11:42 UTC

  Cuba faces harder times; Castro willing to talk with US about everything

  

  Cuban President Raul Castro said he remains ready to talk about everything and anything with the United States but that Cuba’s political system was not on the negotiating table.

• Sunday, August 2nd 2009 - 11:21 UTC

  “The camp is no longer a tame cow to be milked” warn Argentine farmers

  

  Argentine farmers said on Saturday that the camp is “no longer a tame cow to be milked” by a “predatory government” and blasted “inefficiency and wrong policies”.

• Saturday, August 1st 2009 - 17:17 UTC

  Venezuela Mulls Jail Time for “Media Offenses”

  

  The leftist Venezuelan government expressed on Friday its support for the draft legislation that contemplates jail sentences for “media offenses,” an idea denounced by journalists’ associations and media executives.

• Saturday, August 1st 2009 - 17:07 UTC

  Britons to stay in Brazil prison

  

  The British law graduates accused of holiday insurance fraud are being held in a Brazilian prison with murderers and drug-traffickers after a judge refused to grant them bail.

• Saturday, August 1st 2009 - 02:47 UTC

  Magallanes region unemployment the lowest in Chile, 4.9%

  

  The unemployment rate in Magallanes region, extreme south of Chile during the second quarter reached 4.9% which is more than double a year ago (2.2%). However it was down 1.4 percentage points from the previous quarter, making it Chile’s region with the lowest rate of jobless, according to the latest report from the country’s Statistics Office.

• Friday, July 31st 2009 - 12:23 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Penguin News Update

  

  Headlines: Westerners’ message to councillors: our livelihood is under threat; We’re progressing BFBS TV options Rendell assures.

• Friday, July 31st 2009 - 12:12 UTC

  Chile, Panama with the highest rate of imprisoned population

  

  Chile, Panama and Salvador are the three Latinamerican countries with the highest number of imprisoned criminals per 100.000 of population, according to a report from the United Nations Latinamerican institute for crime prevention and treatment of delinquents, INALUD.

• Friday, July 31st 2009 - 04:10 UTC

  Countdown for the Argentine Executive super powers

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner announced this week a bill that will limit the amount of funds discretionally disbursed by the Executive under the so-called “superpowers”.