Politics

• Tuesday, October 6th 2009 - 06:49 UTC

  Micheletti lifts emergency decree; IMF promises aid to Zelaya

  

  Honduras' de facto leader Roberto Micheletti lifted Monday an emergency decree that suspended some civil liberties and shut two media outlets loyal to ousted President Manuel Zelaya. Micheletti had come under pressure to end the emergency measures as the Organization of American States, OAS, tried to negotiate an end to a crisis triggered when Zelaya was toppled in a June coup.

• Tuesday, October 6th 2009 - 06:38 UTC

  “Historic day” for Brazil which for the first time becomes IMF creditor

  

  Brazil became on Monday for the first time ever a creditor of the International Monetary Fund when it formalized a decision to buy 10 billion US dollars worth of IMF notes nominated in SDR.

• Monday, October 5th 2009 - 14:00 UTC

  Malvinas Families grateful to Argentine, UK governments and Islanders

  

  “We are most grateful to the governments of Argentina and Britain for having allowed us to go ahead with the homage, and to the Falkland Islanders for having left aside wounds of the past”, said Malvinas Families head Hector Cisneros at the successful completion of the first of two visits to the Falkland Islands.

• Monday, October 5th 2009 - 13:50 UTC

  Micheletti admits it was “a mistake” the way Zelaya was ousted

  

  Honduran de facto president Roberto Micheletti admitted that the way elected President Manuel Zelaya was ousted by the military last June 28th and flown out of the country, “was a mistake”.

• Monday, October 5th 2009 - 13:45 UTC

  Argentina mourns folk singer Mercedes Sola, the “voice of Latinamerica”

  

  Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa, the 'voice of Latinamerica' whose music inspired opponents of South America's brutal military regimes and led to her forced exile in Europe, died on Sunday at 5.15 am after have battled for more than 13 days a delicate health condition.

• Monday, October 5th 2009 - 13:41 UTC

  Unesco safeguard for Andean Aymara cultural heritage

  

  Unesco’s support for the project to safeguard the intangible cultural heritage of the Aymara communities of Bolivia, Chile and Peru should be seen as an example for Latinamerica, according to Peruvian anthropologist Soledad Mujica.

• Monday, October 5th 2009 - 13:33 UTC

  Pope warns Africa about “first world toxic materialism” colonialism

  

  Pope Benedict has warned that a form of colonialism continues to blight Africa. Opening a three-week synod of African bishops, he said political colonialism was over. But he said the developed world continued to export materialism - which he called “toxic spiritual rubbish” - to the continent.

• Monday, October 5th 2009 - 13:27 UTC

  Czech under pressure to sign Lisbon Treaty following Ireland’s YES

  

  Following the decisive Yes vote by the Irish electorate, EU leaders have called on Eurosceptic Czech president Vaclav Klaus to stop holding up the democratic will of all Europeans and sign the Lisbon Treaty.

• Monday, October 5th 2009 - 13:23 UTC

  Lisbon Treaty controversy looms over the Conservative party conference

  

  Britain’s Tory leader David Cameron is fighting to prevent a damaging new rift over Europe dominating his party's final conference before the general election.

• Monday, October 5th 2009 - 13:10 UTC

  Bolivia faces critics over purchase of aircrafts from China

  

  Bolivia said on Sunday that it’s the South American country which least invests in military hardware and ratified it is not involved in any arms race. Defence minister Walker San Miguel statement follow the Bolivian decision to purchase six aircrafts from China which come on top of an open credit line for military hardware extended by Russia.