Politics

• Sunday, November 27th 2011 - 08:11 UTC

  IMF chief praises Latinamerica, which can provide ‘some lessons to the advanced world’

  

  IMF chief Christine Lagarde who this week will be visiting Latinamerica said that Brazil, Mexico and Peru, like to many other countries in the region have done remarkably well over the past few years and can provide some lessons to the advanced countries.

• Sunday, November 27th 2011 - 08:07 UTC

  Lagarde leaves Argentina out of tour for not complying with understanding

  

  IMF chief specifically excluded Argentina from its coming Latinamerican tour because the government of President Cristina Fernandez still has to comply with what was agreed last July, basically normalizing the controversial INDEC stats office and open its books to auditing as happens with all other members of the G20.

• Sunday, November 27th 2011 - 05:49 UTC

  Surrounded by the Colombian Army, FARC kills four hostages and one escapes

  

  Colombia's FARC rebels have executed four hostages but a fifth hostage was found alive after escaping his captors, the defense minister said Saturday. The hostages had been held at a FARC encampment in the remote Solano region of southern Colombia.

• Sunday, November 27th 2011 - 02:12 UTC

  Amnesty demands action from the Brazilian government following killing of indigenous chief

  

  A deadly attack on an indigenous community in southern Brazil highlights the authorities’ failure to protect indigenous peoples amid ongoing land conflicts, Amnesty International said in an official release last Friday.

• Sunday, November 27th 2011 - 02:06 UTC

  Brazil’s Labour minister closer to the brink on further corruption accusations

  

  Brazil’s Labour minister Carlos Luppi is again under a barrage of accusations from the Sao Paulo press which could definitively make him the sixth toppled cabinet member in less than a year from the government of President Dilma Rousseff on charges of corruption.

• Sunday, November 27th 2011 - 01:01 UTC

  Peruvian peasants clash with police to protest against gold mine in the Andes

  

  Peruvian police fired tear gas on Friday to break up a protest at Newmont Mining Corp's proposed 4.8 billion dollars Conga gold mine as the government tried to mediate a bitter environmental dispute over the project. Several protesters were injured.

• Saturday, November 26th 2011 - 03:20 UTC

  Mercosur to share intelligence and coordinate regionally organized crime combat

  

  Combating the drugs and arms trade and traffic of people as well as a greater coordination of regional intelligence services are among the pillars in security affairs that Argentina, as chair of Mercosur in the first half of 2012 will be applying.

• Saturday, November 26th 2011 - 03:16 UTC

  Bolivia admits 26.1% live in extreme poverty but not on the hunger fringe

  

  The Bolivian government strongly rejected a statement from a FAO (UN Food and Agriculture Organization) official saying that 26% of the population (2.5 million people) is on the hunger fringe since they can not satisfy their basic food needs.

• Saturday, November 26th 2011 - 03:14 UTC

  After spending time in US and French jails former dictator will be extradited to Panama

  

  French appeals court ruled this week that former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega could be extradited to his homeland to serve time for crimes committed during his iron-fisted rule in the 1980s.

• Saturday, November 26th 2011 - 03:10 UTC

  What are the real reasons behind Brazil’s interest in a nuclear powered submarine?

  

  By Lucius Lomax<br />
  The idea of a rogue nation using peaceful nuclear technology for armaments has been explored extensively by both Hollywood and the United Nations. But the idea of acquiring nuclear power—under the pretext of military use—with the real intention of commercial development appears to be an original idea of the Brazil government.