Politics

Thursday, November 24th 2011 - 15:00 UTC
The inequality behind Chile’s prosperity

By COHA guest scholar Silvia Viñas
Foreigners on business trips usually travel from Chile’s Santiago International Airport to the city’s financial center in the El Golf neighborhood via the Costanera Norte or Vespucio Norte highways.
Thursday, November 24th 2011 - 14:07 UTC
HMS Montrose calls in Ascension en route to the Falkland Islands

HMS Montrose has visited Ascension Island as part of her mission to promote British interests in the South Atlantic over the coming months. Ascension supports the airbridge which provides the vital link between the UK and MPA in the Falkland Islands, seat of British forces in the South Atlantic.
Thursday, November 24th 2011 - 13:14 UTC
Ninety years later epic polar explorers set to rest side by side in South Georgia

“He is my other self. I love him like a brother”. Thus Ernest Shackleton spoke of Frank Wild, his friend and fellow explorer, whose ashes are soon to be laid to rest alongside Shackleton’s at the Whaler’s Graveyard in Grytviken, South Georgia, 90 years after their last great polar venture.
Wednesday, November 23rd 2011 - 20:40 UTC
EU top diplomat calls for strategic link with Latinamerica and announces trip to the region

The European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton described relations with Latinamerica as ‘strategic’ and called for an intensification of political dialogue with the region of which the EU is the main foreign investor.
Wednesday, November 23rd 2011 - 20:33 UTC
Berlin and Paris again clash over ECB; Euro confidence crisis on German shore

Germany and France again on Wednesday over whether the European Central Bank should take bolder steps to stem the Euro zone debt crisis, with Chancellor Angela Merkel issuing one of her starkest warnings yet against fiddling with the central bank's strict inflation-fighting mandate.
Wednesday, November 23rd 2011 - 20:29 UTC
Buenos Aires gains increasing popularity as gay destination by the pink press

Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires has gained increasing popularity as a gay destination, largely due to recent liberalization laws which have supported gay and lesbian lifestyles, reports Pink Choice.
Wednesday, November 23rd 2011 - 20:01 UTC
Argentina has great hopes with the Caribbean back in the Latinamerican fold

Argentina has great expectations about the coming summit for the official creation of the Community of Latinamerican and Caribbean states, Celac, scheduled to take place next December 2 and 3 in Venezuela, said Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman.
Wednesday, November 23rd 2011 - 19:56 UTC
Record level funding for mine-clearance but increased use of antipersonnel mines

The latest report on landmines has both good and bad news. It says governments have provided a record level of funding to remove the weapons. But at the same time the use of antipersonnel mines has increased.
Wednesday, November 23rd 2011 - 06:27 UTC
CFK promises pro-growth model, industrial “fine tuning” and dialogue

In a milestone speech on Tuesday anticipating the four years of her next mandate, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez disclosed she would continue with pro-growth policies but also added that a time of ‘fine tuning’ had arrived in which she was willing to address all issues including “investment and inflation” but not through the newspapers.
Wednesday, November 23rd 2011 - 06:25 UTC
Head of Spain’s main banking group meets with Brazilian president

The president of Spain’s banking group Santander Emilio Botin described Brazil as “a very interesting market for Spain” following a meeting with Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff.