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.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
President Hugo Chavez announced plans Sunday to take over more private companies in Venezuela and also said his government should review the use of water by trans-national companies like Coca-Cola and Pepsi.
The Group of 20 nations failed over the weekend to agree on a proposal to impose a global tax on banks that was aimed at making the financial industry shoulder the cost of bailouts, settling instead for a common set of guidelines.
A member from the campaign team of Brazilian presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff was forced to resign over the weekend because of an alleged espionage plan to tap information from the main opposition hopeful Jose Serra.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived Sunday night in Lima, Peru, for her second trip to the region this year. Ms Clinton will be participating on Monday in the two-day Organization of American States General Assembly hosted by Peru.