Politics

• 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.

• Saturday, September 19th 2009 - 07:28 UTC

  US/Cuba talks for resumption of direct mail service

  

  The United States and Cuba have begun talks on resuming direct mail service, which has been suspended since 1963. US Deputy Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Bisa Williams is leading the delegation to the negotiations in Havana.

• Saturday, September 19th 2009 - 04:08 UTC

  Some of Mujica’s comments are simply “stupidities” says Uruguayan president

  

  Uruguay’s ruling coalition presidential candidate was strongly criticized by President Tabare Vazquez who described many of this comments out of place, and others simply “stupidities”.

• Friday, September 18th 2009 - 15:28 UTC

  Uruguayan president calls for stronger and more balanced Mercosur

  

  Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez called for an integrated Mercosur with a greater number of countries to make it more competitive overseas, but also demanded greater balance inside the group among members.

• Friday, September 18th 2009 - 11:52 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Weekly Penguin News Update

  

  Headlines: Typhoons have landed; A champion for the cause of first-time home buyers; Argentina snubs Islands delegates at world summit.

• Friday, September 18th 2009 - 11:29 UTC

  Argentina plans to reach agreement with “holdouts” and Paris Club

  

  Argentina plans to reach an agreement with holders of the country's defaulted debt in an effort to return to international lending markets, according to a draft of the 2010 budget submitted to Congress this week.

• Friday, September 18th 2009 - 06:11 UTC

  Argentina, a country of “paranoiac reactions”, and the Kirchners, “what a gang”

  

  “The Kirchners are lefties, but what a left, mamma mia, what a gang!” and Argentina is a country “of hysteric, mad, paranoiac reactions”. The comments belong to Uruguay’s ruling coalition presidential candidate, Jose Mujica and whom opinion polls show him comfortably ahead for next October’s election.