Politics

• Friday, April 15th 2011 - 05:44 UTC

  ‘The challenge is a better distribution of wealth’, said Insulza on Pan American Day

  

  The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) commemorated on Thursday April 14 Pan American Day and the anniversary of the signing of the Charter of the OAS, adopted in Bogota, Colombia, on April 30, 1948.

• Friday, April 15th 2011 - 03:12 UTC

  Falkland Islands represented at Royal Wedding

  

  A Falkland Islander will be joining the ranks of the privileged few at the Royal Wedding of the Prince William and Catherine Middleton in Westminster Abbey on April 29.

• Friday, April 15th 2011 - 02:13 UTC

  Mujica promises to control the curse of inflation, but ‘there are no magic solutions’

  

  President Jose Mujica promised there will be no ‘uncontrolled inflation in Uruguay’ and although admitting it’s not a simple problem, with no magic solution, there are “sufficient tools’ to address the issue including putting “government spending on a diet”.

• Friday, April 15th 2011 - 00:12 UTC

  “Other blocks demand too much from Mercosur and offer too little”

  

  Several Mercosur negotiations with other blocks have failed because “they ask too much and offer too little” said Samuel Pinheiro recently appointed Mercosur High Representative and who is holding a round of meetings with member countries’ leaders.

• Friday, April 15th 2011 - 00:01 UTC

  ‘Argentina’s protectionism’ the great obstacle for EU/Mercosur trade talks

  

  European Union’s top trade negotiator, Karel de Gucht, accused Argentina of being “the great obstacle” in an association agreement between the EU and Mercosur, and threatened to take the case before the WTO.

• Thursday, April 14th 2011 - 23:50 UTC

  Mercosur outperformed in 2008/09 recession and during 2010 recovery

  

  Latin America and the Caribbean have weathered the 2008-2009 recession much better than it had previous downturns. However less well-known is that the region, particularly Mercosur members, also decisively outperformed many other regions during the same period with a decline in growth smaller than that of the middle-income country average and with a rebound that was swifter and stronger.

• Thursday, April 14th 2011 - 23:39 UTC

  Obama insists on reforming tax-code and making the rich pay more

  

  US President Barack Obama said the United States must use the tax code to help meet its targets for reducing the deficit and said that the wealthiest Americans must help achieve that goal.

• Thursday, April 14th 2011 - 23:22 UTC

  Argentine de facto president following Falklands’ war defeat sentenced to life imprisonment

  

  The military officer who as de facto president led Argentina following the Falkland Islands invasion defeat in 1982 was sentenced to life in prison over human rights violations committed during the country’s last military dictatorship, 1976/1983.

• Thursday, April 14th 2011 - 21:01 UTC

  More people deeper in poverty as food prices soar 36%, says World Bank

  

  Driven in part by higher fuel costs connected to events in the Middle East and North Africa, global food prices are 36% above their levels a year ago and remain volatile, pushing people deeper into poverty, according to new World Bank Group numbers released Thursday.

• Thursday, April 14th 2011 - 19:54 UTC

  BRICS calls for new global monetary system with less reliance on the dollar

  

  The BRICS group of emerging-market powers kept up the pressure for a revamped global monetary system that relies less on the US dollar and for a louder voice in international financial institutions.