Politics

Thursday, January 1st 2009 - 20:00 UTC
Brazil embraces spelling reforms

Brazilians start 2009 facing the task of learning new spelling rules that have just come into effect.
Thursday, January 1st 2009 - 20:00 UTC
Raul Castro marks Cuban revolution

Cuba's revolution is “stronger than ever” the country's president has said, as he led ceremonies marking the 50th anniversary of the overthrow of the US-backed government.
Tuesday, December 30th 2008 - 20:00 UTC
Argentina declares Darwin cemetery National Historic Site

The Argentine Darwin cemetery in the Falkland Islands has been formally declared a national historic site in a decree signed by Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner according to reports in the Buenos Aires press.
Tuesday, December 30th 2008 - 20:00 UTC
Brazilian wants larger representation in Mercosur parliament

The president of the Mercosur Parliament has stated that Brazil should have four times the number of representatives from Paraguay and Uruguay. Deputy Doctor Rosinha argued that since Brazil has a population of 187 million, it should have 75 representatives, Argentina 33 and Paraguay and Uruguay, 18 each.
Tuesday, December 30th 2008 - 20:00 UTC
Energy: strong Big Brother Brazil medicine for Paraguay

Brazil is willing to correct with Paraguay some practical distortions in the implementation of the Itaipú shared hydroelectric dam system, but “not the Treaty”, said Marco Aurelio Garcia, President Lula da Silva's main international affairs advisor.
Tuesday, December 30th 2008 - 20:00 UTC
UK covered up Falklands dependency Argentine occupation

The British Foreign office actively colluded with the Argentine Junta in the late seventies to cover up the occupation of a remote Falkland Islands dependency, Southern Thule, according to The Telegraph based on newly declassified files.
Monday, December 29th 2008 - 20:00 UTC
Origin of Species controversy on Darwin's bicentennial

As the scientific world prepares to mark Charles Darwin's bicentenary, the author of On the Origin of Species is facing accusations of plagiarism and unjustly claiming credit as the father of evolutionary theory.
Monday, December 29th 2008 - 20:00 UTC
Fake cases tarnish Chile's dictatorship missing victims list

Several cases of people listed as missing victims of Chile's dictatorship which have either been located or died under unrelated circumstances has shocked the country's public opinion and caused political turmoil.
Monday, December 29th 2008 - 20:00 UTC
Mercosur calls for end of violence and peace talks in Gaza

Mercosur expressed “concern and repudiation” towards the spiral of violence in the Gaza Strip, and also regrets the tragic results of the Israeli bombardment of the Palestinian territory.
Monday, December 29th 2008 - 20:00 UTC
Oil paintings missing from UK Buenos Aires dependencies

Works of art worth hundreds of thousands of pounds are missing from British embassies and other official buildings around the world, according to a report published in The Times. At least 50 paintings from the Government Art Collection are unaccounted for, according to the latest audit. None was insured and some are known to have been stolen but more than half the total simply disappeared.