Politics

• Thursday, June 21st 2012 - 09:48 UTC

  Inclusive Wealth Indicator, with human capital data, discussed at Rio+20

  

  A new index that measures a nation's wealth by taking into account factors such as natural resources, social stability and wellbeing, has painted Colombia and Venezuela in a very different light to that suggested by their GDP (gross domestic product) — the traditional measure of a country's success.

• Thursday, June 21st 2012 - 06:17 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez forced to return to address a three-day teamsters strike

  

  As Argentine president Cristina Fernandez was landing in Buenos Aires Wednesday night cutting short her international tour, Gendarmerie forces were clashing with striking teamsters at a major fuel refinery which is vital for the supply of gas to the province of Buenos Aires.

• Thursday, June 21st 2012 - 06:08 UTC

  Bachelet calls for transitional measures to boost number of female lawmakers

  

  Chile should bring in “transitional measures” to boost the number of female lawmakers, said former President Michelle Bachelet, who heads the United Nations body charged with empowering women.

• Thursday, June 21st 2012 - 06:05 UTC

  Protesting Chilean students again take to the streets; minor clashes with Carabineros

  

  Dozens of Chilean high school students were detained in Santiago on Wednesday as a protest organized by the National Confederation of Secondary Students (CONES) turned ugly.

• Thursday, June 21st 2012 - 06:00 UTC

  Welsh nationalist party rebuffs Argentine approach on Falklands’ dispute

  

  Diplomats from the Argentine embassy in London invited senior representatives from Plaid Cymru, for talks in the past six months, reports The Daily Telegraph.

• Thursday, June 21st 2012 - 05:51 UTC

  Argentine government authorizes the export of 6 million tons of 2012/13 wheat

  

  Argentina's government authorized this week the export of 6 million tons of 2012/13 wheat as farmers advance with early plantings, officials said.

• Thursday, June 21st 2012 - 05:34 UTC

  Brazil’s central bank forecasts strong rebound in last quarter and early 2013

  

  Brazil’s economy will be expanding in the beginning of next year at the fastest pace since the last quarter of 2010, said central bank President Alexandre Tombini.

• Thursday, June 21st 2012 - 05:24 UTC

  Father of former president Bachelet was tortured to death by Pinochet dictatorship

  

  The father of former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet probably died as a result of torture after the 1973 military coup, a judge said in Santiago on Wednesday.

• Wednesday, June 20th 2012 - 21:09 UTC

  Argentina’s Diplomatic Circus

  

  by Jimmy Burns (*) Cristina Fernandez Kirchner told her countrymen back in February that they should not feel collectively responsible for the national debacle that surrounded the military invasion of the Falklands in 1982. She blamed the military and the Argentine media. Those of us who lived through that war in Argentina know this to be a falsehood.

• Wednesday, June 20th 2012 - 20:38 UTC

  Member states agree on the UN Rio+20 conference outcome document

  

  Members States announced on Wednesday that they have reached an agreement on the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20).