Politics

Thursday, September 5th 2013 - 01:48 UTC
Chilean economy slowing but still vigorous with growth ranging of 4% to 4.5%

Chile's central bank cut its forecast range for 2013 GDP growth but maintained inflation and domestic demand predictions as the effects of a slowdown hitting copper demand are moderated by consumer spending.
Thursday, September 5th 2013 - 01:36 UTC
”The majority of ministers of Piñera’s government are all children of Pinochet”

A prominent backer of the 1973 military coup against elected President Salvador Allende said that General Augusto Pinochet betrayed those who supported the putsch out of patriotic sentiments. Roberto Thieme, a founder of the nationalist Homeland and Freedom movement, known as PyL, spoke out a week before the 40th anniversary of Allende's bloody ouster in an interview with Radio Cooperativa.
Thursday, September 5th 2013 - 01:21 UTC
Chile’s Judges apologize for their passive complicity with the Pinochet regime.

Chile's judges issued a long-awaited apology on Wednesday to relatives of those who sought missing loved ones under the military regime of Dictator Augusto Pinochet only to have courts shrug them off.
Wednesday, September 4th 2013 - 00:36 UTC
Food, education and healthcare rising prices keep Uruguay’s inflation out of target

Uruguay’s inflation in August kept climbing and reached 1.04%, totalling 6.74% in the first eight months of the year and 8.86% in the last twelve months, which is well above the Central bank target of 4% to 6%, according to the latest report from the local Statistics Office, INE.
Tuesday, September 3rd 2013 - 23:53 UTC
Colombia/FARC peace talks at a ‘critical’ stage says government negotiator

Colombia's peace talks with Marxist FARC rebels have reached a “critical” stage, with discussions over the next couple of months a key gauge of whether an end to five decades of war is likely or not, government negotiator Sergio Jaramillo said on Tuesday.
Tuesday, September 3rd 2013 - 23:45 UTC
Leading industrialist tells Cristina Fernandez to abide by the rules of democracy, otherwise it is ‘Chavism’

Deputy Chairman of the Argentine Industrial Union (UIA) Cristiano Ratazzi said that President Cristina Fernández “should leave office once her term ends” because those are the rules of democracy, otherwise it is ‘Chavism’.
Tuesday, September 3rd 2013 - 23:35 UTC
Cristina Fernandez flies to G-20 in Russia on Tango 01, but changes aircraft in Morocco

Argentine President Cristina Fernández left on Tuesday for Russia to attend the G20 summit to begin next Thursday at the Constantine Palace in Saint Petersburg. The president flew on her office’s Tango 01 to Morocco where she changed aircraft to avoid any possible injunction from hedge funds on the presidential transport.
Tuesday, September 3rd 2013 - 23:25 UTC
Blackout leaves half of Venezuela in the dark; Maduro claims an “electrical coup”

President Nicolas Maduro blamed Venezuela’s right-wing opposition for what he called “sabotage” and an ‘electrical coup’ that he said caused blackouts that plunged much of the country into chaos.
Tuesday, September 3rd 2013 - 23:17 UTC
Gibraltar diplomatic conflict “an important fire” says Spain, but friendship with UK must prevail

Spanish Foreign minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo addressing parliament on Tuesday described the current diplomatic conflict with the UK as an ‘important fire’ and blamed it on three apparently minor incidents: Gibraltar authorities having dropped the agreement with Spanish fishermen a year ago; the recent dumping of cement blocks in the bay of Algeciras (Gibraltar) and the construction of a new reef.
Tuesday, September 3rd 2013 - 01:49 UTC
President Santos prepares for the last leg of his four year mandate

The Colombian ministerial cabinet presented on Monday a protocol resignation to President Juan Manuel Santos so that the leader can make the necessary changes as his administration prepares for the last year of his mandate, according to Palacio Nariño sources.