Politics

• Friday, October 16th 2009 - 04:33 UTC

  Overwhelming support for Brazil as member of the UN Security Council

  

  Bosnia, Brazil, Gabon, Lebanon and Nigeria were elected Thursday to non-permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council. They will serve two-year terms starting January 1 and will participate in decisions ranging from deploying U.N. peacekeepers to imposing sanctions.

• Friday, October 16th 2009 - 04:06 UTC

  Uruguay committed to regional integration and a “better Mercosur”

  

  Uruguay has no plans to abandon or become an associate member of Mercosur, but rather continue along the line established by President Tabare Vazquez which is doubling efforts “for a better Mercosur” said Foreign Affairs minister Pedro Vaz during a meeting with foreign correspondents in Montevideo.

• Thursday, October 15th 2009 - 07:56 UTC

  Uruguayan presidential hopefuls are “vain”, “impulsive” and “egocentric”

  

  A graphology profile of Uruguay’s presidential candidates for the coming October 25th election has surfaced such adjectives as “impulsive” and “egocentric”. The report was published in Montevideo’s main daily El Pais following on the “readings” of the signatures of three of the hopefuls.

• Thursday, October 15th 2009 - 07:51 UTC

  New warnings about an arms race in South America and Nicaragua

  

  Several Latinamerica former political leaders and security experts expressed concern over the consequences of an arms race in South America and in Central America’s Nicaragua.

• Thursday, October 15th 2009 - 04:30 UTC

  Teamsters strike “strangling” Punta Arenas

  

  Punta Arenas in the extreme south of Chile is beginning to suffer shortages of some basic goods, including fuel, as a direct consequence of a several-days’ teamsters’ strike which has virtually isolated the city by land.

• Thursday, October 15th 2009 - 03:48 UTC

  Former Brazilian guerrilla involved in kidnap of ambassador extended US visa

  

  A former Brazilian guerrilla who in 1969 was involved in the abduction of US ambassador Charles Elbrick has been extended a visa to travel to United States by the consulate office in Sao Paulo.

• Thursday, October 15th 2009 - 03:16 UTC

  UK unemployment predicted to continue soaring over 3 million

  

  United Kingdom unemployment is still on course to soar above three million despite better-than-expected jobless figures, experts have warned. Official data showed unemployment rising to 2.47 million in the three months to August, an increase of 88,000 on the quarter to May

• Thursday, October 15th 2009 - 02:52 UTC

  Majority of young Argentines consider Malvinas a “national cause”

  

  Eight out of ten Argentines believes that the British presence in the Malvinas/Falkland Islands is a violation of Argentine sovereignty, although a significant percentage is willing to consider the possibility or shared sovereignty, according to the latest survey to be released in Buenos Aires.

• Wednesday, October 14th 2009 - 06:54 UTC

  Brazilian diplomacy looks to a post G7 multilateral world

  

  The naming of Antonio Patriota, former Brazilian ambassador in United States as his Deputy, further strengthens the influence of Foreign Affairs minister Celso Amorim in the country’s foreign policy elaboration, according to reports in the Sao Paulo press.

• Wednesday, October 14th 2009 - 06:22 UTC

  Zelaya and Micheletti closer to a solution for the Honduras crisis

  

  Ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya sacked Tuesday one of his negotiators at the dialogue table with the de facto government, following his refusal to sign an understanding by which Zelaya desists from calling a constitutional assembly.