Politics

• Monday, September 21st 2009 - 11:34 UTC

  “Peace without Borders” concert in Havana breaks all records

  

  A million people packed a main square in the Cuban capital Havana Sunday to witness a rare and ambitious concert that, despite its nonpolitical theme, drew criticism from some Cuban exiles in the United States.

• Monday, September 21st 2009 - 11:31 UTC

  Argentina announces formal negotiations with the Club of Paris

  

  Argentina’s Economy minister Amado Boudou meets this week with its French peer Christine Lagarde for the resumption of negotiations with the Club of Paris. The meeting will take place previous to the G-20 presidential summit in Pittsburgh.

• Monday, September 21st 2009 - 11:26 UTC

  Malvinas families trip to the Falklands “end of a long mourning period”

  

  The coming trip to the Falkland Islands for the official inauguration of the memorial at the Argentine cemetery in Darwin, “somehow represents the end of a long mourning period”, but at the same time “re-signifies the strong meaning that the Malvinas have for the Argentine people”, said Cesar Trejo representative of the Malvinas Families Commission.

• Monday, September 21st 2009 - 11:12 UTC

  Colombian government/FARC agree on hostages’ liberation

  

  Colombian President Alvaro Uribe agreed to demands from next of kin of hostages held by the FARC rebels and will accept the release of kidnapped policemen and soldiers one at a time rather than all at once, a reversal in government policy that could speed up releases.

• Monday, September 21st 2009 - 08:37 UTC

  Lula da Silva denies arms race and justifies investment in defence

  

  Brazilian president Lula da Silva denied South America had embarked in an arms race and justified purchases by Brazil, Chile, Venezuela and Colombia the four countries at the forefront of military hardware expenditure.

• Monday, September 21st 2009 - 06:57 UTC

  South Georgia’s whaling history to the prelude of the Falklands conflict (*)

  

  On September 13th 1909, 100 years ago, the “SS Starlight” arrived at South Georgia with men and materials to erect a shore whaling station. Her destination was a cove in Stromness Bay which became known appropriately as Leith Harbour because the company building the station was Christian Salvesen's of Leith, on the outskirts of Edinburgh.

• Saturday, September 19th 2009 - 11:34 UTC

  US tighter supervision of credit rating agencies

  

  United States credit rating agencies will face tighter supervision under new rules adopted by the US financial watchdog.

• Saturday, September 19th 2009 - 11:19 UTC

  Latinamerican conference on regional migratory policy

  

  Latinamerican countries will try to unify a regional migratory policy during the 9th South American Conference on Migration, to be held here on Sept. 21-22, announced Ecuadorian Migration Minister Lorena Escudero.

• Saturday, September 19th 2009 - 11:15 UTC

  G 20: “Step up reforms” in IMF and WB, demand developing countries

  

  Emerging countries and particularly those from Latinamerica will propose at the coming G-20 summit in Pittsburgh that reforms of the IMF and World Bank, where they expect to have a larger representation, move much faster.

• Saturday, September 19th 2009 - 09:52 UTC

  Last US forces abandon Manta military base in Ecuador

  

  The United States formally left the Manta military base in Ecuador on Friday at 9.00 a.m. local time, at a ceremony in which Ecuadorian authorities took full control of the Pacific Coast facilities.