Politics

Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 23:13 UTC
Brazilian president popularity at its highest since taking office

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's popularity is at its highest level since taking office, buoyed by her handling of an economic slowdown and tough stance against corruption, a poll showed this week.
Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 22:57 UTC
Furious Chile demands an apology from Argentina’s former military governor of the Falklands

The Chilean political system reacted angrily and demanded official apologies from the Argentine government following statements from former General Mario Menendez who said “Chileans behaved as pigs during the Malvinas war” three decades ago.
Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 22:51 UTC
“We were prepared for war with Chile”, not in Malvinas admits former Argentine military governor

The former military governor of the Malvinas Islands during the Argentine occupation said that the negative outcome of the war for Argentina can only be attributed to “negligence and improvisation”.
Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 15:54 UTC
Colombia “rolls up to show a leg” to honour thousands of anti-personnel mines victims

Colombia, only second to Afghanistan as to the country most punished by antipersonnel mines held several ceremonies on Wednesday to remember and honour its 9.755 victims of which 2.044 have died.
Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 15:45 UTC
Argentina picks a fight with Brazil oil giant Petrobras and revokes oil concession

Brazilian oil giant Petrobras assured that it has complied with all terms of its Argentine Patagonia Neuquén province oil exploitation contract, following provincial governor Jorge Sapag's announcement of the termination of the concession contract in Veta Escondida area.
Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 15:41 UTC
Argentina denies plan to acquire stake in YPF but provinces continue to rescind concessions

Argentina’s Planning Minister Julio de Vido denied a report by Buenos Aires newspaper Clarin that the government is working on a plan to use state-controlled pensions Anses to buy a stake in oil corporation YPF, he said in a statement.
Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 15:36 UTC
IMF warns world recovery is very fragile; policy makers should not become complacent

IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said the world economy is still in recession and the recovery remains fragile as she warned that, although some progress has been made, the global economic situation is not ideal yet. “We should not delude ourselves into a false sense of security,” she alerted.
Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 14:45 UTC
Green light for huge controversial hydroelectric project in Chilean Patagonia

Chile's Supreme Court Wednesday removed the last legal obstacle to building a giant 2.9 billion dollars hydroelectric complex in the Patagonian wilderness, rejecting a bid by environmentalists to block it.
Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 14:29 UTC
Memorandum for Lady Thatcher on Chile’s support during Falklands’ conflict

It is a well known and admitted fact that the Chilean regime of General Augusto Pinochet provided very useful intelligence to the British effort to recover the occupied Falkland Islands in 1982.
Wednesday, April 4th 2012 - 23:55 UTC
Half of Argentines believe Malvinas conflict ‘will never be solved’, shows poll

Half of Argentines believe that the Falklands/Malvinas conflict over which Argentina and Britain went to war 30 years ago, will not be solved, but a clear majority have no doubts about the sovereignty issue, according to a public opinion poll released on Wednesday.