Politics

• Wednesday, November 7th 2012 - 04:39 UTC

  Opening the Falklands to Latin America; the testimony of a Guatemala journalist

  

  Luis Alberto Velasquez is a journalist with the Guatemalan newspaper La Prensa Libre and recently visited the Falkland Islands with a group of journalists from Panama, Costa Rica and Nicaragua. In the guest post below Luis Alberto shares some thoughts about his recent trip.

• Wednesday, November 7th 2012 - 04:34 UTC

  Ex Mexican finance minister named IMF Western Hemisphere director

  

  Mexican economist Alejandro Werner was named on Tuesday to the position of IMF Director, Western Hemisphere Department. His appointment will become effective early in January 2013. Mr. Werner succeeds Mr. Nicolas Eyzáguirre, who resigned effective July 26, 2012.

• Tuesday, November 6th 2012 - 22:38 UTC

  Sao Paulo with federal support promises to crack organized crime and drug lords

  

  Brazil announced on Tuesday it will create a new police agency, boost surveillance operations and mull transferring inmates to more secure prisons as it battles killings of police in surging violence blamed on a jail-based drug gang.

• Tuesday, November 6th 2012 - 21:39 UTC

  BG Group/Argentina appeal case reaches US Supreme Court

  

  The US Supreme Court on Monday asked for the US government's views on a British Gas Group PLC appeal that seeks to restore a 185 million dollars arbitration award the company won against Argentina in 2007.

• Tuesday, November 6th 2012 - 20:41 UTC

  Real estate activity drops dramatically in Argentina because of ‘dollar-clamp’

  

  Argentina’s real estate sector is already feeling the negative consequences of the ‘dollar-clamp’ implemented by the government of President Cristina Fernandez a year ago, and in 2013 the effect could have an even greater impact for the construction industry.

• Tuesday, November 6th 2012 - 20:04 UTC

  Argentina reiterates it will use all legal means to defend position against US court ruling

  

  Argentina will use all legal means to defend its position against a US court ruling that would force the country to repay creditors who sued to collect on defaulted Argentine bonds, Economy Minister Hernan Lorenzino reiterated in Mexico.

• Tuesday, November 6th 2012 - 18:22 UTC

  Uruguay confirms in Argentina incentives for arriving tourists this summer season

  

  The Uruguayan government confirmed on Monday a raft of measures to attract Argentine tourists and compensate the restrictions in Argentina to purchase foreign currency (dollar-clamp) and the 15% retention fund for credit or debit cards operations outside the country.

• Tuesday, November 6th 2012 - 07:04 UTC

  Mercosur ‘denying Paraguay its legitimate right to the pro-tempore chair”

  

  Mercosur is denying Paraguay its legitimate right to the pro-tempore chair of Mercosur next 7 December at the presidential summit in Brasilia when Uruguay will receive the relay from Brazil. On that same occasion Venezuela will be attending the meeting as full member for the first time, reports the Asuncion media.

• Tuesday, November 6th 2012 - 06:59 UTC

  Mujica after in-depth discussion on ‘a real integration of Mercosur” with Chavez

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica has plans to meet two, probably three times before the end of the year with his peer from Venezuela, Hugo Chavez to address “a real integration” of Mercosur, not limited to trade, but at the same time admitting that Venezuela is rapidly becoming one of the main markets for Uruguayan exports.

• Tuesday, November 6th 2012 - 06:43 UTC

  Chilean presidential campaign virtually takes off with reshuffle of cabinet

  

  Chilean President Sebastian Piñera shuffled his cabinet to allow ministers with presidential aspirations to leave, as his embattled conservative coalition seeks support before presidential elections in November 2013.