Politics

• Monday, July 18th 2011 - 08:35 UTC

  Uruguay’s former president turned dictator Bordaberry (83) dies under home arrest

  

  Juan Maria Bordaberry, the elected president who turned dictator in 1973 by supporting a military coup and opening the way for twelve years of military rule, died Sunday while under house arrest.

• Sunday, July 17th 2011 - 01:12 UTC

  Uruguay: “The spoiler beat the favourite”

  

  Uruguay broke Argentina's hearts, beating the hosts 5-4 on penalties to book a Copa America semi-final with Peru after Carlos Tevez missed the crucial spotkick.

• Saturday, July 16th 2011 - 17:19 UTC

  Clarin group heirs DNA-test negative to 1975/76 families, victims of dictatorship

  

  DNA tests on the adopted children of Argentina’s most powerful media family have failed to show any matches in a national gene bank where families of victims of the dictatorship (1976/1983) have donated their DNA.

• Saturday, July 16th 2011 - 17:16 UTC

  World’s oldest and fiercest derby in South American football history

  

  The Argentine province of Santa Fe will be the coliseum for South America’s oldest and fiercest derby when the locals meet Uruguay in the quarter finals of the Americas Cup. Both teams arrive with an unsatisfactory record in the current competition and are expected to make the most to ensure they reach the finals.

• Saturday, July 16th 2011 - 07:25 UTC

  Move closer to Brazil politically and economically, says US Foreign Relations Council

  

  Influential foreign policy experts at the New York based Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) think the United States should move closer to Brazil politically and economically and recommend the creation of a Brazilian affairs office at the National Security Council.

• Saturday, July 16th 2011 - 06:52 UTC

  RAF largest ever dual purpose aircraft, Voyager can carry 300 troops or 100.000 litres of fuel

  

  The RAF’s largest ever aircraft, Voyager, has been flown by an RAF pilot at the Royal International Air Tattoo, Fairford for its first public appearance. Fourteen Voyager aircraft and a complete support package are being provided to the RAF under a 27 year £10.5bn Private Finance Initiative contract signed with the AirTanker consortium.

• Friday, July 15th 2011 - 16:31 UTC

  Plan to support Brazilian industry from foreign protectionism to be announced August 2

  

  Brazil’s president Dilma Rousseff announced Thursday night the launching of a new plan aimed to boost and protect Brazilian industry against international competition and at the same called for a technological development leap forward.

• Friday, July 15th 2011 - 13:36 UTC

  Charges against 18 executives and British auditor in major Chilean retail scandal

  

  The Chilean Securities and Insurance Supervisor (SVS) announced on Wednesday that it would be pressing charges against more than a dozen executives at Chilean retail giant La Polar.

• Friday, July 15th 2011 - 06:35 UTC

  Paraguayan congress blocks re-election attempt of an ambitious bishop-president

  

  Paraguay's opposition-controlled Congress rejected a constitutional reform that would have let President Fernando Lugo run for re-election. The reform drive, led by Lugo's supporters, proved controversial in a country where many people have painful memories of General Alfredo Stroessner's 35-year dictatorship.

• Friday, July 15th 2011 - 06:31 UTC

  Chavez to receive cancer treatment in Sao Paulo, say Brazilian government sources

  

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will travel to Brazil for cancer treatment, a Brazilian government source told reporters, following his return home after an operation in Cuba.