Tag: Latin America

• Monday, May 3rd 2010 - 20:31 UTC

  Drug Traffickers, Cuba and FARC, Latam’s Main Predators of Press Freedom

  

  There are 40 names on this year’s list of Predators of Press Freedom—40 politicians, government officials, religious leaders, militias and criminal organizations—that cannot stand the press, treat it as an enemy and directly attack journalists. They are powerful, dangerous, violent and above the law.

• Monday, May 3rd 2010 - 08:02 UTC

  Corruption Claims in Argentine/Venezuelan Trade Involve Néstor Kirchner

  

  The Argentine political establishment is agitated after the heavy remarks made before a federal judge by former Argentine ambassador to Venezuela Eduardo Sadous, who said local businessmen had to pay kickbacks to former president Néstor Kirchner administration officials to be able to export their goods to Venezuela.

• Monday, May 3rd 2010 - 07:43 UTC

  Cuban “Ladies in White” Allowed to March on Catholic Church Request

  

  Roman Catholic Cardinal Jaime Ortega announced Sunday he managed to convince Cuban authorities to lift the month-long ban on street protests by “Ladies in White”—the wives and mothers of political prisoners.

• Monday, May 3rd 2010 - 02:48 UTC

  Tens of Thousands March Across the US to Protest Arizona’s New Immigration Bill

  

  Tens of thousand of demonstrators marched in over 70 cities across the United States Saturday to protest a new immigration law in the state of Arizona. The law is aimed at those who have entered the country illegally, but critics say it will lead to ethnic profiling of Arizona's Hispanics.

• Monday, May 3rd 2010 - 02:16 UTC

  Colombia’s Uribe Warns Nationalizations Lead to “Major Social Defeats”

  

  Colombian president Alvaro Uribe questioned Latin American countries that are moving along the path of nationalization of corporations and warned that erasing private sector investments only anticipates “major social defeats”.

• Monday, May 3rd 2010 - 01:31 UTC

  Argentina has “High Expectations” for Mr. Kirchner as UNASUR Chairman

  

  Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo said this weekend that the Argentine government has “high expectations” that former president Nestor Kirchner will be named next Tuesday as secretary general of the Union of South American Nations, UNASUR. In that case the UNASUR headquarters would move from Ecuador to Buenos Aires.

• Saturday, May 1st 2010 - 08:49 UTC

  UNASUR Summit Convenes in Buenos Aires with Backlog of Controversial Issues

  

  The extraordinary summit of presidents of countries members of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) is to debate next Tuesday in Buenos Aires an agenda dominated by the intention of former Argentine president Néstor Kirchner to run for the post of Secretary General of the regional bloc.

• Saturday, May 1st 2010 - 07:28 UTC

  Euro Zone Leading Bank Praises Latam Growth and Financial System

  

  Latin America currently has “the best financial system in the world”, said Francisco Luzón, member of the Board and head of the Latin American Division of Spain’s Banco Santander (NYSE:STD), the biggest bank by market capitalization in the Eurozone.

• Saturday, May 1st 2010 - 01:23 UTC

  Peru to Question Chile’s “Arms Build-Up” in the EU/Latam Madrid Summit

  

  The Peruvian government’s claim that Chile is undergoing a tremendous arms build-up has once again come to the forefront of Latin American international relations.

• Saturday, May 1st 2010 - 00:36 UTC

  Colombia Conditions Vote for the UNASUR chairman

  

  Colombian Foreign Affairs minister Jaime Bermúdez Merizalde said Friday that before the standing chairman of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) is decided, Uruguay and Argentina must solve their differences.