CGT labour confederation secretary-general Hugo Moyano confirmed today that on Tuesday of next week, the inflation figures put together by the umbrella union’s private breakaway statistics agency will be released.
By Ana Patiño.- During the last day of the seminar Road to Río+20, the non-governmental organizations were in charge of presenting what they expect Río+20 will bring and how they are currently working to make progress in the "sustainable development."
The Catholic Church warned that 10 percent of homes of the Metropolitan area are located in shanty towns and that 24 percent of their inhabitants are poor, thus requested that “the overcoming of poverty, equal opportunities for all and social integration as considered as top priorities in State policies."
The poverty rate ended the second semester of 2011 at 6.5 percent, against the 9.9 percent published during the same period in 2010, the Indec national statistics bureau reported. This poverty index level has not been reached since 1982, when the rate was of 5.1 percent.
The Indec National Statistics Agency announced that poverty levels lowered in the second half of 2010, with 527,000 households below the poverty line (6.8%), which include a total of 2,475,000 people (9,9%).
Re-elected Buenos Aires City Mayor Mauricio Macri gave his victory speech after defeating Kirchnerite Daniel Filmus, and said his party (PRO) would begin the process of deciding which of the presidential candidates to support in the general elections.
The Indec national statistics bureau confirmed that the poverty levels lowered in the first semester of the year, as President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner had previously reported.
By Ana Patiño.- On the road to the summit of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development that will be held on June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, members of LatAm governments stated during a seminar held in Buenos Aires their position regarding the sustainable development measures that are being applied and expressed how the “green economy” will help the human being without affecting the planet.
Leftist front-runner Ollanta Humala, seeking to shore up the crucial ethnic vote, yesterday urged poor Peruvians with indigenous roots to back him in Sunday's presidential election.
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto unveils his plans to eradicate extreme poverty on Monday, a blight affecting more than 10 percent of the population in Latin America's second biggest economy.
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto launched a campaign against hunger today, pledging to transform the lives of nearly 7.5 million of the country's poorest, though he gave few details, prompting criticism that the plan was a "rehash" of old policies.