Politics

• Sunday, March 21st 2010 - 19:47 UTC

  The Dark side of Brazil’s Olympic Dreams: 2016 Olympic Host Battles Poverty, Violent Crime, and Police Brutality

  With colorful and scandalous flourishes, in a nation where the bizarre is often normal, Brazil’s Carnaval kicked off throughout the country on February 12th. The celebration is especially exotic in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s second largest city, where the samba dancers’ elaborate talents draw millions of tourists each year.

• Saturday, March 20th 2010 - 08:51 UTC

  British Airways battles cabin crew strike

  

  British Airways said it would fly more than 60 percent of passengers with flights booked for this weekend despite a three-day cabin crew strike that risks hurting the Labor government weeks before an election.

• Saturday, March 20th 2010 - 06:20 UTC

  Argentina’s most serious institutional crisis since 1983, but “could be for good”

  

  Argentina is going through the most serious institutional crisis since the return of democracy in 1983, according to respected political analyst and historian Rosendo Fraga. Never “have we seen such an intense clash among the three branches of government”.

• Saturday, March 20th 2010 - 04:18 UTC

  A clear majority of Uruguayans optimistic about President Mujica’s government

  

  A clear majority of Uruguayans, 61% is optimistic about the future and believes that the government of President Jose Mujica will “be good or very good”, according to the latest Equipos Mori public opinion poll released this week.

• Saturday, March 20th 2010 - 04:05 UTC

  Letter to Lula da Silva: “Cuba no longer a symbol, no longer a taboo”

  

  Brazil and the community of Latin American countries are the only ones with the ability to influence the Cuban government’s position on human rights and media freedom, says a letter addressed to Brazilian president Lula da Silva by Reporters Without Borders.

• Saturday, March 20th 2010 - 01:58 UTC

  Opposition leader Serra confirms he will run for Brazilian presidency

  

  Brazil’s main opposition leader and governor of the country’s biggest state of Sao Paulo Jose Serra, said Friday for the first time publicly that he will be a presidential candidate in this year's elections.

• Saturday, March 20th 2010 - 01:42 UTC

  Latinamerica left out of Denmark’s aid and development programs

  

  Denmark’s Minister of Development and Cooperation Sören Pind announced Friday that Latinamerica would be eliminated from the Danish International Development Agency economic aid programs, which in 2008 totalled almost 100 million US dollars concentrated in “vulnerable and fragile” zones.

• Saturday, March 20th 2010 - 01:27 UTC

  Gibraltar delegation at Europe-Latinamerica Liberal parties’ forum in Cadiz

  

  A delegation from the Liberal Party of Gibraltar will be in Cadiz this weekend to participate in an international political conference entitled “200 Years of a Common Liberal Identity: A Liberal Agenda for Europe-Latin America Relations”.

• Saturday, March 20th 2010 - 01:13 UTC

  Insulza re-election as OAS Secretary General is “almost certain”

  

  With less than a week for the election of a new Organization of American States Secretary General, OAS, international analysts consider as “almost certain” the re-election of Chile’s Jose Miguel Insulza, although they do not discard a last minute “artificial” or protest candidate.

• Friday, March 19th 2010 - 16:48 UTC

  Falklands’ delegation at annual OCT’s forum for closer links with European Union

  

  A Falkland Islands delegation is on its way to Brussels for the annual Forum for Overseas Countries & Territories of the European Union, which will be attended by representatives of all 21 EU Overseas Countries & Territories, reports the Falklands Legislative Assembly