Politics

Wednesday, May 11th 2011 - 01:37 UTC
“Shape up or ship out”, Cuban communist party tells unprofitable companies

Cuban government companies and cooperatives repeatedly “inefficient” (non profitable) will be handed to the private sector or liquidated, according to the reforms program approved by the island’s VI Communist Party congress and which was officially published Monday.
Wednesday, May 11th 2011 - 01:25 UTC
Unasur to achieve a “South American continent united and in peace by 2020”

Unasur new Secretary General, former Colombian Foreign Affairs minister Maria Emma Mejía is convinced that South America will be a united continent and in peace, in ten years time.
Tuesday, May 10th 2011 - 21:16 UTC
Triesman claims FIFA members asked for favours to vote for England 2018 World Cup

Former English football association chairman David Triesman has accused FIFA executive committee members Jack Warner, Ricardo Teixeira, Nicolas Leoz and Worawi Makudi of asking for favours in return for their votes for England's 2018 World Cup bid.
Tuesday, May 10th 2011 - 20:53 UTC
Memorials in London, Cambridge and Falklands remember Britons lost in Antarctica

Two memorials dedicated to Britons who lost their lives in the service of science in Antarctica are unveiled this week. Since 1948, a total of 29 people have died in the British Antarctic Territory, one of the most extreme, inhospitable and uncharted places on Earth.
Tuesday, May 10th 2011 - 20:46 UTC
Falklands will receive another group of Chilean exchange students next September

Another group of Chilean students from Punta Arenas will be travelling to the Falkland Islands next September in the framework of the exchange program agreed between city officials and Falklands’ authorities, according to a report in La Prensa Austral.
Tuesday, May 10th 2011 - 20:39 UTC
Why the Falklands want to stay British

by Emma Edwards / 29 Apr 2011
In November 2010, journalist Peter Preston set out his opinions on the future of the Falkland Islands. He urged Her Majesty’s Government to “Ditch The Falklands” and to start discussing the possibility of shared sovereignty with Argentina.
Tuesday, May 10th 2011 - 13:10 UTC
Falklands/Argentina argument “begins and ends with self determination”

The basic argument between the Falkland Islands and Argentina “begins and ends with self determination”, underlined Martin Longden Deputy Director of Overseas Territories in an interview with Tony Curran published in the Falklands’ weekly Penguin News.
Tuesday, May 10th 2011 - 11:18 UTC
Valenzuela, US top State Department official for Latam tenders resignation

Expressing a desire to return to his academic post at Georgetown University, Chilean-born Arturo Valenzuela tendered his resignation as the head United States advisor for Latin American Affairs on Friday, May 6.
Tuesday, May 10th 2011 - 10:31 UTC
Colombia’s Mejía formally takes office as Unasur Secretary General

Colombia’s former Foreign Minister, María Emma Mejía, was appointed Monday as the new Secretary General to the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) in a ceremony in Georgetown hosted by Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo.
Tuesday, May 10th 2011 - 10:17 UTC
S&P downgrades Greek debt as junk; “haircut” a growing possibility

Standard and Poor's cut Greece's credit rating further into junk territory, reflecting growing doubts that the Euro zone's most fragile economy can manage its debt without imposing losses on private bondholders.