Politics

• Tuesday, October 28th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Latinamericans prefer Obama over McCain three to one

  

  A majority of Latin-Americans know little or nothing about the coming US presidential election but a modest majority, 29%, believe Democrat Barack Obama would be more convenient for the region, according to the 2008 version of the Santiago based Latino-barometer public opinion poll which included three questions on the issue.

• Tuesday, October 28th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Bush pledges help to fight corruption, poverty in Paraguay

  

  President George Bush joined Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo Monday in a pledge to bring assistance to the poverty-stricken South American nation while fighting corruption in the ranks of its government.

• Tuesday, October 28th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Municipal elections in Chile advance a cabinet reshuffle

  

  Setbacks in Sunday's municipal elections appear to have pushed Chile's president to shake up her Cabinet, according to Interior minister Edmundo Perez Yoma.

• Tuesday, October 28th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Falklands present at the OT Consultative Council in London

  

  Elected Councillor Mike Summers is representing the Falkland Islands at the tenth two day meeting of the Overseas Territories Consultative Council (OTCC) which opened Monday in London, presided by Foreign Office Minister Gillian Merron.

• Tuesday, October 28th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Chile asks G8 liquidity support for development banks

  

  Chile called for a quick response from the international community in face of the global financial crisis and emphasized that country members from the G-8 should increase contributions to the Inter American Development Bank (BID) and to the Andean Promotion Corporation (CAF) thus helping with more liquidity for the region.

• Tuesday, October 28th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Peru and Spain sign “strategic association” accord

  

  Peru and Spain signed this week a “strategic association” agreement during a ceremony headed by King Juan Carlos and Peruvian president Alan Garcia at Government Palace in Lima, the highlight of the royal couple's visit to Peru.

• Tuesday, October 28th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Karl Marx was never so right, says Nobel laureate Saramago

  

  “Karl Marx was never so right as now” about the current crisis of the capitalist system said Nobel Prize in Literature Jose Saramago during the presentation in Lisbon of the film “Blindness”, partly filmed in Montevideo, with a script based on his novel.

• Tuesday, October 28th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Chilean ruling coalition could annex communist party

  Chilean presidential hopeful and currently Secretary General of the Organization of American States, (OAS) Jose Miguel Insulza admitted that the Chilean ruling coalition could loose next year's election. But he also proposed closer ties with the Communist party to impede further vote erosion.

• Monday, October 27th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Brazilian military warning to Paraguay landless peasants

  

  Brazilian military exercises along the border with Paraguay are escalating tensions between the South American neighbours. Operation Southern Border II mobilized 3,500 soldiers from the Brazilian armed forces along the border, as part of a larger force of some 10,000 soldiers also deployed along the borders with Uruguay and Argentina.

• Monday, October 27th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Mercosur special meeting with challenging agenda

  

  The Mercosur Council meets Monday in Brasilia to address an agenda of controversial issues: the global financial crisis; commercial asymmetries among country members and Uruguay's veto to former President Nestor Kirchner's for the chair of Unasur.