Uruguayan Pelusso takes charge at Universidad de Chile (Central Chronicle)
Agencies Santiago, Nov 28: Uruguayan Gerardo Pelusso, who steered Nacional to the league title in his home country last season, took charge of leading Chilean side Universidad de Chile.
New wing open at Jamaica (Queens Courier)
With the resurgence of H1N1 cases and a steady increase in emergency room visits since Mary Immaculate and St. John’s Queens Hospitals closed, the partial opening of a newly-transformed patient wing at Jamaica Hospital has provided the facility with “some slight relief.”
Ex-guerrilla easily wins Uruguay presidency (AP via Yahoo! News)
President-elect Jose Mujica retreated to his flower farm and shunned the spotlight on Monday, saying that dumping more talk on Uruguayans after a speech-filled campaign “would be like raining on what is already wet.”
Pope lauds ’84 Argentina-Chile peace agreement (AP via Yahoo! News)
Pope Benedict XVI hailed a 1984 Vatican-mediated friendship agreement between Argentina and Chile as a “luminous example” of peace winning out over war during an audience Saturday with the presidents of both countries.
Government sends out LNG requests for proposals – Jamaica (Business News Americas)
Jamaica’s cabinet has approved the use of floating storage and regasification (FSR) units to import LNG, government information service JIS reported.
Former leftist guerrilla wins Uruguayan presidency (MalaysiaNews.net)
Montevideo, Nov 30 (DPA) Jose Mujica, a former leftist guerrilla who spent 15 years in prison, has won a presidential run-off in Uruguay, results showed Monday.
Colombia’s Peso Bonds Gain After Debt Swap; Chile Peso Declines (Bloomberg)
Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) — Colombia’s peso bonds gained after the government swapped 3.4 trillion pesos ($1.7 billion) of bonds due between 2010 and 2018 to extend maturities and lock in lower borrowing costs.
In Uruguay, former guerrilla wins by moving away from Chávez (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News)
A former leftist guerrilla clinched victory in Uruguay’s presidential run-off election on Sunday, but he did it by moving hard to the center and purposely distancing himself from Venezuela’s radical leftist President Hugo Chávez.
Stanton family headed to Haiti on mission’s trip (The Wayne Independent)
Pasta dinner planned to raise money
