Politics

• Tuesday, December 8th 2009 - 04:18 UTC

  Honduras winning party with strong majority in Congress

  

  Honduras November 29th election winner (Conservative) National party will have a clear majority in Congress according to the latest reports from the country’s electoral authorities.

• Tuesday, December 8th 2009 - 04:14 UTC

  Venezuela tackles crime, 20% of which committed by the police force

  

  Almost a fifth of all registered crimes in Venezuela are committed by law enforcement officers, particularly those most violent such as kidnapping and homicides, revealed Home Secretary Tareck El Aisammi.

• Tuesday, December 8th 2009 - 04:03 UTC

  Sao Paulo gang digs their way into a vault and 6 million US dollars

  

  A Brazilian gang robbed ten million Reais (approximately six million US dollars) from the vault of a securities transport company after tunnelling from a neighbouring house to the west of Sao Paulo.

• Tuesday, December 8th 2009 - 03:56 UTC

  EU/Mercosur sign cooperation agreement

  

  The European Union and Mercosur signed a cooperation agreement involving 27 million US dollars earmarked for the sustainable development of the region.

• Monday, December 7th 2009 - 23:44 UTC

  Brazilian inflation and interest rates forecasted to increase in 2010

  

  The Brazilian economy is forecasted to expand 0.21% in 2009 according to a Central Bank poll among financial experts and which is published weekly in the Focus Bulletin. In the previous edition the growth estimate was 0.20%.

• Monday, December 7th 2009 - 12:29 UTC

  A two-day busy Mercosur summit begins Monday in Montevideo

  

  Uruguay is hosting as of Monday the Mercosur bi-annual presidential summit which will have as top issue of the agenda trade differences among its members, particularly Argentina and Brazil, and on the sidelines contacts of Uruguay’s president-elect Jose Mujica with leaders from Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay

• Monday, December 7th 2009 - 11:22 UTC

  Landslide victory and Senate majority for Evo Morales in Bolivia

  

  Bolivian president Evo Morales won by a landslide majority in Sunday’s general elections and according to exit polls has ensured the Senate two thirds majority needed to continue with his reforms program some of them considered controversial.

• Monday, December 7th 2009 - 11:20 UTC

  Opposition does not discard impeachment of President Cristina Kirchner

  

  A leader of the Argentine opposition does not discard the possibility of impeaching President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner for alleged acts of corruption.

• Monday, December 7th 2009 - 11:06 UTC

  Olympic City Rio do Janeiro boasts world’s largest floating Xmas tree

  

  The lights are blazing from the world's largest floating Christmas tree -- a gigantic 85-metre high metal structure set on a lagoon in Rio de Janeiro, the city that will host the 2016 Olympic Games.

• Monday, December 7th 2009 - 10:57 UTC

  Falklands’ HMS Sheffield commander died December 3

  

  Rear-Admiral Sam Salt, who died on December 3 aged 69, commanded the first British warship to be sunk by enemy action after the Second World War