Politics

• Friday, December 2nd 2011 - 20:36 UTC

  Washington approves Jorge Argüello as Argentina’s next ambassador

  

  The Argentine diplomat Jorge Argüello (grossly misinformed on the Falkland Islands) has received official approval from President Barack Obama’s administration for his bid to become the Argentine Ambassador in Washington DC, the Foreign Ministry announced this week in Buenos Aires.

• Friday, December 2nd 2011 - 19:41 UTC

  Brazil ready to support IMF but demands greater power for BRICS countries

  

  Brazil conditioned the disbursement of more funds for the IMF to help countries in crisis to a greater say in the multilateral organization and the advance of European initiatives to solve the current Euro and debt crisis.

• Friday, December 2nd 2011 - 18:58 UTC

  Chile and Uruguay less corrupt in Latam; other Mercosur members not so clean

  

  Chile and Uruguay are the least corrupt countries in Latinamerica, while Paraguay and Venezuela are at the other extreme, according to the latest ‘Corruption Perceptions’ Index’ from Transparency International released this week.

• Friday, December 2nd 2011 - 16:04 UTC

  “Four years more are more than enough”, says Argentine president

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez watered down any hopes of a limitless re-election during her visit to Venezuela stating that “four years more are more than enough”.

• Friday, December 2nd 2011 - 16:00 UTC

  CFK moved to tears on receiving picture of her husband painted by Chavez

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández signed on Thursday nineteen cooperation agreements in different fields with her Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chávez at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas.

• Friday, December 2nd 2011 - 15:38 UTC

  Spanish regions pledge to control spending; unemployment reaches 21.52%

  

  Leaders of Spain’s indebted autonomous regions pledged on Thursday to control spending after meeting incoming Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to discuss their troubled accounts, which are at the heart of the country’s economic crisis.

• Friday, December 2nd 2011 - 15:34 UTC

  Falklands 2012, “a moment of genuine celebration in all Overseas Territories”

  

  British Prime Minister David Cameron reiterated before Parliament his support for the Overseas Territories, including the Falkland Islands, and their right to remain British. Cameron made special mention to the fact that next year in the anniversary of the liberation of the Falklands “which will be a moment for genuine celebration in all Overseas Territories”

• Friday, December 2nd 2011 - 05:36 UTC

  Unasur plans ten-year infrastructure and integration projects

  

  Infrastructure and integration investments totalling 13.7 billion dollars in the next ten years to 2022 were announced by the Unasur (Union of South American Nations) infrastructure chapter this week in Brasilia.

• Friday, December 2nd 2011 - 05:24 UTC

  France denies Uruguay is a “fiscal haven”; underlines strong bilateral links

  

  “Uruguay does not figure in the list of countries with which France has financial difficulties”, said a special envoy from President Nicholas Sarkozy who visited Montevideo this week, thus ending the controversy triggered at the end of the early November G8 Cannes summit when Uruguay was described as a “fiscal haven”.

• Friday, December 2nd 2011 - 00:00 UTC

  UK reaffirms to next Spanish government full support for Gibraltar sovereignty

  

  Just a few days after the Conservative Popular Party swept into power in Spain, the British Government has underscored its long-standing assurance that it will not talk about Gibraltar’s sovereignty against the wishes of its people.