Politics

• Tuesday, June 8th 2010 - 04:05 UTC

  Uruguayan announces more “active role” in exchange market to boost exports

  

  The Uruguayan government plans a more active role in the foreign exchange market with the purpose of boosting exports competitiveness that have been suffering from the sliding depreciation of the US dollar.

• Tuesday, June 8th 2010 - 03:56 UTC

  OAS agreed Monday to create high level group to decide on Honduras

  

  The Organization of American States, OAS, agreed Monday to create a high level group to assess conditions for the re-entry of suspended Honduras, announced Peruvian Foreign Affairs minister Jose Antonio García Belaúnde

• Tuesday, June 8th 2010 - 01:17 UTC

  Growing number of Argentines optimistic about the economy in 2011

  

  An increasing number of Argentines have growing expectations about their country’s economy well into 2011 when presidential elections are scheduled to take place, according to a public opinion poll published this weekend in the Buenos Aires press.

• Tuesday, June 8th 2010 - 01:16 UTC

  More divorces than marriages in Chile

  

  For the first time since divorce was legalized in Chile five years ago, couples are getting divorced faster than they are getting married. In 2008, 39,000 couples were granted divorces and 20,000 were married. 2009 saw a similar trend, with 63,021 couples granted divorce, or 9% more than the number of couples married, according to a report in La Tercera.

• Tuesday, June 8th 2010 - 00:56 UTC

  Most of Pinochet’s 21m USD fortune cannot be legitimately accounted for

  

  A Universidad de Chile investigation has found that of the 21 million US dollars fortune that former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet amassed during his lifetime, 19 million cannot be legitimately accounted for.

• Tuesday, June 8th 2010 - 00:43 UTC

  Forum on how to recover funds stolen by dictators and corrupt regimes

  

  United Nations, the World Bank and Switzerland are organizing a two-day international conference in Paris to try and associate global financial centres in helping recover assets taken and hidden by dictators and other leaders of corrupt regimes.

• Tuesday, June 8th 2010 - 00:35 UTC

  “There’s not such thing as a Mercosur parliament”, says Uruguayan lawmaker

  

  There’s no such thing as a Mercosur parliament or Parlasur, simple because it does not comply with the role of a legislative, said Uruguayan Lower House member Jorge Orrico from the ruling coalition.

• Tuesday, June 8th 2010 - 00:29 UTC

  Chavez announces purchase of second batch of Chinese K-8 military planes

  

  Venezuela will spend 82 million US dollars on a second batch of Chinese K-8 military training aircraft, President Hugo Chavez announced on Sunday. The Chavez regime has ordered 18 of the light attack and training planes from China and last March received the first six.

• Tuesday, June 8th 2010 - 00:27 UTC

  Argentine top magistrate cautions pickets blocking bridge leading to Uruguay

  

  Argentina’s Supreme Court president Ricardo Lorenzetti said that the blockade by Argentine pickets impeding, since 2006 crossing to neighbouring Uruguay, to protest the construction of a pulp mill, is “unsustainable”.

• Monday, June 7th 2010 - 10:57 UTC

  OAS delegates and business sector agree to promote democracy and social equality

  

  The Organization of American States, OAS, member countries and the business sector agreed in Lima, Peru on the need to strengthen and instigate the alliance between the public and private sectors in order to promote democracy, social equality and responsibility, and the fight against crime.