Politics

• Monday, May 23rd 2011 - 15:47 UTC

  Final trip for HMS Gloucester after Falklands’ duties and Saxon Warrior exercise

  

  Veteran warship HMS Gloucester, the Fighting G, which spent most of her last twelve months in South Atlantic duties in the Falklands and South Georgia, returned to Portsmouth for the last time Monday 23.

• Monday, May 23rd 2011 - 06:01 UTC

  Mexico Casterns throws his hat into the IMF MD election ring

  

  Mexico central bank Governor Agustin Carstens will be presented as a candidate for managing director of the IMF, the Finance Ministry said in an e-mailed statement Sunday.

• Monday, May 23rd 2011 - 04:13 UTC

  Colombia/Venezuela broker agreement for Honduras return to OAS

  

  Colombia and Venezuela brokered an agreement between Honduras's incumbent president and its deposed former leader to try to help the Central American nation be readmitted to the Organization of American States.

• Monday, May 23rd 2011 - 04:06 UTC

  Peruvian president says he’s rather fond of Chavez with whom fights are over

  

  Peruvian outgoing president Alan García said on Sunday that the days of rivalry and fights with his peer Hugo Chavez are over and admitted he’s quite fond of the Venezuelan president whom he considers a man “respectful of institutions and power”.

• Monday, May 23rd 2011 - 04:02 UTC

  Spain’s ruling Socialists suffer major defeat but early elections ruled out

  

  Spain's ruling Socialist Party sustained heavy losses in municipal elections on Sunday, amid widespread protests against high unemployment. The conservative People's Party (PP) took 37.5% of the vote compared with almost 28% for Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's PSOE, with more than 90% of votes counted.

• Monday, May 23rd 2011 - 01:04 UTC

  Violent riots in Argentine port on rumours two vessels were involved in Falklands oil exploration

  

  Two Norwegian flagged vessels contracted in support of Argentina’s YPF oil rigs in the South Atlantic but which rumours had them working for the Falkland Islands, triggered major rioting and protests Friday and early Saturday in the city of La Plata.

• Monday, May 23rd 2011 - 00:58 UTC

  Uruguay ratifies “continental solidarity” in the Falklands/Malvinas dispute

  

  Uruguay ratified to visiting UK Foreign Minister for Latin America Jeremy Browne, Montevideo’s “continental solidarity” policy with Argentina regarding the Falklands/Malvinas dispute but also described relations with the UK as “extremely cordial”.

• Monday, May 23rd 2011 - 00:36 UTC

  Unasur defence strategic studies centre opens this week in Buenos Aires

  

  UNASUR (Union of South American Nations) Secretary General Maria Emma Mejia and several defence ministers from the region will be meeting in Buenos Aires this week for the official inauguration of the Defence Strategic Studies Centre, CEED, which is to become the first permanent body of Unasur Defence Council.

• Monday, May 23rd 2011 - 00:31 UTC

  Over 300.000 Cubans have opted to work in the private sector as ‘self-employed’

  

  The number of Cubans working in the private sector continues to rise and now includes over 300,000 as a result of President Raul Castro government’s economic reforms that have been implemented since last October.

• Monday, May 23rd 2011 - 00:25 UTC

  Chilean naval officers to court for kidnapping and torture of Anglo-Chilean priest

  

  Chilean Judge Julio Miranda of the Valparaíso Court of Appeals formally presented last week an accusation against 10 retired navy officers for the kidnapping and torture of Anglo-Chilean priest Michael Woodward.