Politics

• Tuesday, June 1st 2010 - 04:57 UTC

  Peru and Chile agree to resume confidence building in military affairs

  

  Peruvian defence minister Rafael Rey recently paid his Chilean counterpart Jaime Ravinet and Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera a visit, a meeting which showed that although the two countries continue to squabble over maritime border issues, bilateral relations are still intact.

• Tuesday, June 1st 2010 - 04:52 UTC

  HMS York almost home after high profile patrolling in Falklands’ waters

  

  HMS York is on her way home from the South Atlantic after a high-profile five months on patrol off the Falklands Islands, reports The Press from York.

• Tuesday, June 1st 2010 - 04:46 UTC

  Tories implement civil service “salary transparency”; 171 above PM Cameron

  

  Some 171 civil servants are paid more than Prime Minister David Cameron's £142,500-a-year salary, according to Cabinet Office figures. The salaries of those earning over £150,000 were revealed for the first time in a bid to aid transparency.

• Tuesday, June 1st 2010 - 02:52 UTC

  Argentina extends bond restructuring on request from Italian creditors

  

  Argentina is extending its 18.3 billion US dollars bond restructuring at the request of Italian creditors and the country’s financial regulator, Economy Minister Amado Boudou said on Monday.

• Tuesday, June 1st 2010 - 02:46 UTC

  Major Brazilian airports on the verge of a “logistics blackout”

  

  Airports in the major cities of Brazil that will be hosting the World Cup in 2014, and the Olympic Games in 2016, are working at their maximum capacity and eight of them are described as “in the edge of operational collapse” according to a report from the Applied Economics Research Institute in Sao Paulo, IPEA.

• Tuesday, June 1st 2010 - 02:44 UTC

  IDB plans to lend 10 billion USD in 2010

  

  The Inter American Development Bank, IDB, is ready to disburse 10 billion US dollars in loans to Latinamerica during fiscal 2010, said the bank’s president Luis Moreno.

• Tuesday, June 1st 2010 - 01:43 UTC

  German president resigns on comments about military actions overseas

  

  German President Horst Koehler unexpectedly resigned due to a storm over comments he made about military action abroad in a move that could cause conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel a headache.

• Tuesday, June 1st 2010 - 01:39 UTC

  Latinamerica exposed to European slowdown, but not Brazil, forecast experts

  

  The United Nations Economic Committee for Latinamerica and the Caribbean, Cepal, anticipates that growth in the region will be less than in previous years because of the economic downturn in developed countries but the tendency should not influence Brazil, the region’s largest economy.

• Monday, May 31st 2010 - 04:20 UTC

  European weakened governments must address this week tough decisions

  

  Budget Minister Francois Baroin indicated on Sunday that France should not take for granted its AAA rating, which allows Paris to borrow relatively cheaply on international markets and finance its big budget deficit.

• Monday, May 31st 2010 - 04:14 UTC

  Russian book confirms Soviet intelligence support for Argentina in Malvinas war

  

  Some interesting historical data about the Falkland Islands war and Soviet intelligence support to Argentina has emerged from a book by a Russian journalist and researcher, who as the son of a former URSS diplomat expert in trade affairs spent most of his youth in Latinamerica, Cuba, Ecuador and Uruguay.