Politics

• Tuesday, November 8th 2011 - 08:32 UTC

  Argentina names trade expert as next ambassador in Brazil

  

  Luis Maria Kreckler currently Argentina’s Foreign Ministry’s Trade and Economic Affairs secretary and who was also considered a strong candidate to be the Foreign Minister in the next presidential cabinet, was appointed as Argentina’s Ambassador to Brazil.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2011 - 08:25 UTC

  Re-election for Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, continent’s poorest nation

  

  Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega, a former Marxist guerrilla leader, was headed for a landslide victory in Sunday's presidential election. Preliminary results showed Ortega, who has cemented his hold on power with social spending for the poor, had 63.7% support based on a count of votes from 18% of polling stations.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2011 - 08:08 UTC

  Calls for Peruvian Vice-President to resign on allegations of corruption

  

  Peruvian lawmakers said on Monday that Vice-President Omar Chehade should resign as soon as possible over corruption allegations to put an end to the first political scandal of Ollanta Humala's young presidency.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2011 - 08:03 UTC

  Emerging nations ready to support the Euro but demand IMF reforms

  

  Major emerging economies are ready to provide financial help to the Euro zone via the International Monetary Fund but in return want commitments to reform the IMF to be implemented, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2011 - 07:58 UTC

  Rousseff warns about global unemployment; calls for plans to generate jobs

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff addressing the results of the G20 summit in Cannes, where Brazil was one of the countries represented said that job creation is a way to tackle economic crises.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2011 - 07:48 UTC

  French ambassador defends Sarkozy’s statements claiming Uruguay is a fiscal haven

  

  The French ambassador in Montevideo, Jean Christophe Potton said that when President Nicholas Sarkozy named Uruguay and ten other countries as ‘fiscal havens’, which could be isolated from the International community, he was speaking in representation of the G20 countries summit in Cannes.

• Monday, November 7th 2011 - 05:58 UTC

  Rousseff could see another minister out: Labour accused of corruption

  

  Advisers to Brazil’s Labor Minister Carlos Lupi demanded kickbacks from non-government organizations with government contracts, newsmagazine Veja reported Sunday, citing unnamed lawmakers and officials.

• Monday, November 7th 2011 - 05:54 UTC

  Major oil company sale collapses after Argentina impones forex controls

  

  China’s Cnooc Ltd.'s deal to buy BP Plc's 7.1 billion dollars stake in Argentine crude producer Pan American Energy LLC collapsed, ten days after Argentina's president ordered oil companies to repatriate export revenue.

• Monday, November 7th 2011 - 05:49 UTC

  Cuba opens in Washington a bar in honour of Ernest Hemingway

  

  The Cuban Interests Section in the US capital has opened an invite-only bar in honour of the US writer Ernest Hemingway, who spent considerable time in Cuba during the 1940s and 1950s.

• Monday, November 7th 2011 - 05:45 UTC

  The Peronist and Kirchner fad reaches a set of different beer blends

  

  Peronist militancy in Argentina has now reached beer brands with the presentation of different names dear to followers of the country’s main political force: “Evita”, “17 de Octubre”, “Montoneros” and “Doble K”.