Politics

• Tuesday, May 26th 2009 - 05:56 UTC

  British cabinet ministers involved in controversial expenses

  

  British cabinet ministers including Chancellor Alistair Darling paid accountants thousands of pounds of public money to complete their personal tax returns, it has been reported.

• Tuesday, May 26th 2009 - 05:35 UTC

  Chavez, Correa promise to protect their peoples from “unethical” media

  

  Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez and Ecuador’s Rafael Correa announced they intend to create international bodies within the Union of South American Nations (Unasur) to protect both governments and peoples against the unethical behaviour of some news media.

• Tuesday, May 26th 2009 - 05:19 UTC

  Chile has fastest growing immigrant population in South America

  

  Chile's immigrant population has grown more than any other country in South America since 2000. Chile has fewer total immigrants than Argentina, Venezuela and Brazil, the proportional increase is greater. Immigration into Chile has increased in the past decade, while it has decreased in those other countries.

• Tuesday, May 26th 2009 - 04:59 UTC

  Malvinas, magic word for Argentine children naming their schools

  

  Malvinas and world famous cardio-surgeon René Favaloro were the most popular names voted by students, teachers and parents for 32 schools from the Province of Buenos Aires. The initiative is part of the coming commemoration of Argentina’s bicentennial on May 25th 2010.

• Monday, May 25th 2009 - 17:55 UTC

  Mercosur is a “body without soul” says Brazilian minister

  

  Mercosur is currently a “body without soul” admitted Brazil’s Strategic Affairs minister Roberto Mangabeira Unger who called for a joint project to overcome “the huge asymmetries of power between Brazil and its neighbours”.

• Monday, May 25th 2009 - 17:53 UTC

  Tories declare Open Recruiting Day; 325 MPs could loose their seats

  

  Britain’s opposition leader David Cameron has invited ordinary members of the public to stand as Tory MPs amid warnings that half the House of Commons will drummed out at the next election over the expenses scandal, according to the Sunday edition of the Daily Mail.

• Monday, May 25th 2009 - 17:41 UTC

  Celibacy is an “imperfect issue” says Paraguayan president

  

  Paraguayan president and former Catholic bishop Fernando Lugo described celibacy as an “imperfect issue” and said the paternity scandal in which he has been involved has not subtracted popular support, rather the contrary.

• Monday, May 25th 2009 - 17:39 UTC

  Latinamerica’s bicentennial independence festivities begin in Bolivia

  

  Bolivia’s commemoration on Monday May 25th of the 200th anniversary of the first uprising in Latinamerica against the Spanish colonial empire will also mark the beginning of similar independence celebrations along the continent which will peak in 2010.

• Monday, May 25th 2009 - 17:34 UTC

  Ecuador’s Correa promises radical measures to implement “citizens’ revolution”

  

  Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, flanked by his Venezuelan and Bolivian counterparts, Hugo Chávez and Evo Morales, on Sunday commemorated the 187th anniversary of the Battle Pichincha, whereby Ecuador assured its independence, and said that he will take even more radical measures to implement his “citizen’s revolution.” Correa also reiterated his commitment to Latinamerican integration.

• Sunday, May 24th 2009 - 06:27 UTC

  Latinamerica divided on procedure to lift OAS ban on Cuba

  

  Political divergences impeded the Organization of American States, (OAS) Permanent Council from officially debating for the first time since 1962, the possible re-entry of Cuba to the inter-American system.