Politics

• 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

• Friday, March 19th 2010 - 15:25 UTC

  Falklands rife with speculation waiting for first oil drilling results

  

  Speculation was mounting this week on news of a potential oil strike as a promised announcement from hydrocarbons exploration company Desire Petroleum grew closer.

• Friday, March 19th 2010 - 11:10 UTC

  Chile considers increasing mining royalty to help earthquake reconstruction

  

  Marking a break from established policy, the Chilean government is considering the opposition’s proposal to increase the mining royalty tax. Government ministers are currently studying the implications of a tax increase, the money from which would be used to aid in earthquake reconstruction.

• Friday, March 19th 2010 - 03:49 UTC

  Falklands: Taiana certain UK will understand it must sit to negotiate

  

  Argentine Foreign Affairs minister Jorge Taiana said on Thursday that there has been progress in creating the “political and diplomatic conditions” for the United Kingdom to understand the need for negotiations on the Falkland Islands sovereignty.

• Friday, March 19th 2010 - 02:31 UTC

  EP president condemns arrest of Cuban political prisoners’ women relatives

  

  The president of the European Parliament has sharply condemned Cuba for arresting a group of women, all of them relatives of political prisoners, who were demonstrating in Havana on Wednesday.

• Friday, March 19th 2010 - 01:27 UTC

  Relatives of quake victims suing Chile for absence of tsunami warning

  

  Relatives of two sisters who died in the Feb. 27 tsunami are suing Chilean government agencies they claim are responsible for the absence of an adequate tsunami warning.