Politics

• Wednesday, January 4th 2012 - 05:31 UTC

  HMS Protector ‘complies with all requirements’ to operate from Montevideo

  

  Uruguay authorized the Royal Navy Ice Patrol HMS Protector into Montevideo because it complies with normal procedure in spite of the fact that its next port of call is Stanley in Falklands/Malvinas.

• Wednesday, January 4th 2012 - 05:27 UTC

  Greece admits it is closer to be forced out of the Euro zone

  

  Greece faces an exit from Europe's common currency block unless it clinches a deal on a second 130 billion Euro bailout with its international lenders, a government spokesman said on Tuesday.

• Wednesday, January 4th 2012 - 05:23 UTC

  German miracle, unemployment falls to its lowest since December 1991

  

  German unemployment fell to its lowest rate in December since 1991, according to the German Federal Labour Agency.

• Tuesday, January 3rd 2012 - 04:56 UTC

  Argentina recalls 1833 Malvinas ‘dislodgement’ and demands bilateral dialogue

  

  Argentina ratified Tuesday its ‘imprescriptible” sovereignty rights over the Malvinas, South Georgia, South Sandwich Islands and adjoining maritime spaces and blasted the UK for not abiding by UN resolutions calling for bilateral talks.

• Tuesday, January 3rd 2012 - 03:49 UTC

  Non-Euro Denmark has assumed the 27 member EU presidency

  

  Denmark has assumed the presidency of the European Union as the 27-member bloc continues efforts to tackle the crisis ravaging the continent. Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt has said Denmark aspires to “strengthen the EU in a difficult time.”

• Tuesday, January 3rd 2012 - 03:18 UTC

  Rousseff promises “to protect” Brazil’s economy, domestic market and jobs

  

  Brazil is moving into an ‘era of prosperity’ characterized by ‘income distribution and a notorious drop in inequalities” said President Dilma Rousseff in her first 2012 radio edition of ‘Enjoying coffee with the President’, where she also dared to use the word ‘protection’ in reference to jobs and the domestic market.

• Tuesday, January 3rd 2012 - 02:56 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez returns to Buenos Aires ahead of Wednesday’s surgery

  

  After spending New Year’s Eve with her family, Argentine President Cristina Fernández returned to Buenos Aires Monday midday from El Calafate, Santa Cruz province, less than 48 hours before she undergoes surgery for a thyroid gland carcinoma.

• Tuesday, January 3rd 2012 - 02:37 UTC

  Britain will supply the Brazilian navy with three patrol vessels

  

  The UK BAE Systems has signed a deal with the Brazilian Navy to supply it with three patrol vessels. The contract is worth £133m.

• Monday, January 2nd 2012 - 22:18 UTC

  Mujica: good relations with everybody, but Argentina and Brazil are crucial

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica said he promotes good relations with the entire world but he is well aware of the significance of neighbouring Argentina for the Uruguayan economy and that “we must jump into the stirrup of Brazil”.

• Monday, January 2nd 2012 - 21:44 UTC

  Venezuelan economy expands 4% in 2010 and inflation reaches 27.6%

  

  Inflation in Venezuela during last year reached 27.6%, which is 0.7 percentage points more than in 2010, according to a preliminary report from Venezuela’s central bank. President Nelson Merentes said that the consumer prices index “was associated to the upwards pressure generated on wholesale prices by a greater dynamism from domestic aggregate demand”.