Politics

• Monday, March 8th 2010 - 07:48 UTC

  Argentine government tells Congress it will pay debts with reserves

  

  Argentine government officials reiterated over the weekend that despite efforts from the opposition to stop the Government, it would service the public debt with the Central Bank foreign reserves.

• Monday, March 8th 2010 - 07:44 UTC

  Brazil cutting liquidity but preparing plan to promote exports

  

  Brazil is preparing a package of incentive but this time to promote exports which suffered significantly last year because of the global slowdown, announced Finance minister Guido Mantega in an inteview with Folha de Sao Paulo.

• Monday, March 8th 2010 - 07:29 UTC

  Chileans say government responded “late and inefficiently” to earthquake

  

  Most Chileans are unhappy with their government's response to the catastrophic earthquake and squarely blame President Michelle Bachelet for shortcomings, according to a poll published over the weekend.

• Monday, March 8th 2010 - 07:25 UTC

  Encouraging signals from US job market even when unemployment is 9.7%

  

  Encouraging news from the United States labour market: employers shed fewer jobs than expected in February, cutting 36,000 jobs. This was better than the 50,000 analysts had been expecting.

• Monday, March 8th 2010 - 07:18 UTC

  Latam conservative parties encouraged with recent electoral victories

  

  Latinamerican conservative political parties meeting in Central America said there has been a set back for the left wing in the region following on the recent conservative electoral victories in Chile, Costa Rica, Honduras and Panama.

• Monday, March 8th 2010 - 07:15 UTC

  Sarkozy promised support for Greece “or else there will be no more Euro”

  

  France will support Greece following its efforts to reduce its deficit and has no intention of seeing the country fall by the wayside because the reason for creating the Euro is at stake, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said.

• Monday, March 8th 2010 - 07:08 UTC

  BBC poll: 87% of internet users say access should be a “fundamental right”

  

  Almost four in five people around the world believe that access to the internet is a fundamental right, a poll for the BBC World Service suggests. The survey - of more than 27,000 adults across 26 countries - found strong support for net access on both sides of the digital divide.

• Saturday, March 6th 2010 - 15:35 UTC

  Sails of South America 2010 from Buenos Aires head for Ushuaia

  

  Bicentennial celebrations winds arrived in Buenos Aires this week with the imposing figure of eleven tall ships, wonderfully crafted relics of the past that will be docked until next Tuesday when they sail on to the South Atlantic.

• Saturday, March 6th 2010 - 15:34 UTC

  Tsunami warning failure sweeps away with head of hydrographical office

  

  The head of Chile's hydrographical and oceanographic service has been sacked following the earthquake and tsunami that killed about 500 people last week.

• Saturday, March 6th 2010 - 12:09 UTC

  Strong 6.6 aftershock hits Chile’s most damaged area

  

  Another strong aftershock jolted Chile nearly a week after the deadly 8.8 magnitude earthquake caused widespread destruction. In the badly-hit city of Concepcion, some residents ran into the streets Friday as the magnitude 6.6 tremor shook the area.