Politics

• Wednesday, June 2nd 2010 - 22:44 UTC

  Chile's El Mercurio celebrates 110th anniversary

  

  Chile’s most widely distributed newspaper, El Mercurio, has celebrated a birthday. On June 1, the daily celebrated 110 years. The paper’s staff met this week to celebrate the event.

• Wednesday, June 2nd 2010 - 22:29 UTC

  Brazil leads Latam in military spending; Colombia as percentage of GDP

  

  Brazil leads Latinamerica in military spending having totalled 27.1 billion US dollars in 2009, followed by Colombia facing an armed guerrilla movement allied with drug cartels and Chile, rich in copper resources, according to the latest report from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI.

• Wednesday, June 2nd 2010 - 02:47 UTC

  Magallanes only region in Chile where unemployment was up in Feb/April

  

  Magallanes Region in the extreme south of Chile has seen unemployment in the February-April mobile increase 0.8 percentage points to 5.4%. Although still one of the lowest rates in Chile, this time Magallanes was the exception since in the rest of the country unemployment was down.

• Wednesday, June 2nd 2010 - 02:44 UTC

  OAS observers praise Colombian Sunday election “non-violence”

  

  The OAS mission of electoral observers confirmed that none of its members found evidence of vote peddling in Colombia’s Sunday presidential election and underlined the quiet and non violent atmosphere during the whole process.

• Wednesday, June 2nd 2010 - 02:36 UTC

  Brazilian press calls Paraguay “rich beggar”, superb actor in asking for alms

  

  One of Brazil’s most influential weekly magazines with strong penetration in political and business circles, ‘Veja’ has a main article this week calling neighbouring Paraguay the “rich beggar”, a role which the successive Paraguayan governments “have played to success attracting significant international aid and grants”.

• Tuesday, June 1st 2010 - 13:48 UTC

  BACTEC says goodbye to the Falkland Islands

  

  The BACTEC (Battle Area Clearance, Training, Equipment and Consultancy) Project Management and the remaining Zimbabwean de-miners will shortly say goodbye to the Falkland Islands after more than six months of living and working in the community. Throughout the project the community has welcomed BACTEC personnel from UK, Zimbabwe and Lebanon and shown us great hospitality during our long stay away from home.

• Tuesday, June 1st 2010 - 05:04 UTC

  Roubini warns Brazil about asset-bubble; recommends limiting Real appreciation

  

  Nouriel Roubini, the New York University professor who predicted the global financial crisis before markets peaked, said the Brazilian, Chinese and Indian economies may be overheating and developing asset bubbles.

• Tuesday, June 1st 2010 - 05:00 UTC

  Colombia’s Santos calls for a national unity government

  

  Colombia’s winning presidential candidate Juan Manuel Santos called on Conservatives and Radicals to join in a national unity government to address the problems of poverty and terrorism.

• Tuesday, June 1st 2010 - 04:57 UTC

  Peru and Chile agree to resume confidence building in military affairs

  

  Peruvian defence minister Rafael Rey recently paid his Chilean counterpart Jaime Ravinet and Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera a visit, a meeting which showed that although the two countries continue to squabble over maritime border issues, bilateral relations are still intact.

• Tuesday, June 1st 2010 - 04:52 UTC

  HMS York almost home after high profile patrolling in Falklands’ waters

  

  HMS York is on her way home from the South Atlantic after a high-profile five months on patrol off the Falklands Islands, reports The Press from York.