Politics

• Tuesday, November 24th 2009 - 13:16 UTC

  Disenchantment factor ahead of next Sunday’s Uruguayan presidential runoff

  

  With less than a week for Sunday’s runoff when Uruguay’s next president will be definitively elected, public opinion polls show support for both candidates “frozen” with a significant percentage undecided or with the intention of voting blank or spoiling their vote.

• Tuesday, November 24th 2009 - 13:12 UTC

  Argentina defends the right of the Palestine people to have a State

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner defended the right of the Palestinian State to “have its own frontiers” in a lunch shared with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, at the Government House.

• Tuesday, November 24th 2009 - 13:11 UTC

  Baroness Thatcher returns to Downing Street

  

  Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher moved back into Downing Street, in the shape of a portrait by royal artist Richard Stone. Nicholas Glass reports. The unveiling had been delayed several times due to the ailing health of Baroness Thatcher, 84, who attended Monday the private reception.

• Tuesday, November 24th 2009 - 13:03 UTC

  Family of de Menezes reaches compensation agreement with London police

  

  The family of Brazilian citizen Jean Charles de Menezes has agreed a compensation deal with the London Metropolitan Police. Relatives of the Brazilian have been locked in an often acrimonious legal battle with the force since he was shot dead at Stockwell Tube station on July 22, 2005.

• Tuesday, November 24th 2009 - 08:39 UTC

  Argentine officials admit “money messenger” visited Government House

  

  Argentine Cabinet Chief Aníbal Fernández admitted on Monday that the video footage showing the Venezuelan-American businessman Guido Antonini Wilson at Casa Rosada, the seat of the Executive Office, in 2007 is not faked.

• Tuesday, November 24th 2009 - 07:49 UTC

  Lula da Silva anticipated his Uruguayan election vote: incumbent Mujica

  

  A leading figure from the ruling Workers Party of Brazil visited this weekend Uruguayan presidential candidate Jose “Pepe” Mujica with a message from President Lula da Silva.

• Tuesday, November 24th 2009 - 07:42 UTC

  Bolivian Jews concerned with Iranian president’s visit

  

  The Bolivian Jewish community has expressed concern over the coming visit this Tuesday of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadineyad who is scheduled to meet with his Bolivian peer Evo Morales, as part of a several days visit to South America and Africa.

• Tuesday, November 24th 2009 - 03:58 UTC

  Blasting report on human rights: “New Castro, Same Cuba”

  

  Cuban president Raúl Castro's government has locked up scores of people for exercising their fundamental freedoms and allowed scores more political prisoners, arrested during Fidel Castro's rule, to languish in detention, Human Rights Watch says in a report released this week. Rather than dismantle Cuba's repressive machinery, Raúl Castro has kept it firmly in place and fully active, the report says.

• Tuesday, November 24th 2009 - 03:18 UTC

  Chile denies conflict with Peru will be considered in Unasur defence meeting

  

  Chile said that the alleged espionage case involving a Peruvian military that passed sensitive information to a Chilean counterpart is a “bilateral issue” and firmly denied it was to be discussed in the coming Unasur (Union of South American nations) Defence Council.

• Tuesday, November 24th 2009 - 02:43 UTC

  Brazilian opposition questions Iranian president’s visit

  

  The main leader of the Brazilian opposition Jose Serra criticized the government of President Lula da Silva for receiving Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and recalled that the Iranian Defence minister has been accused of the attack against the Argentine Jewish Mutual, AMIA, in 1994, in Buenos Aires.