Latin America

Saturday, April 14th 2012 - 06:38 UTC
UK team to survey wreck of RFA tanker sunk by WWII German U-boat in St Helena

UK Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) team is heading to the South Atlantic island of St Helena to survey the wreck of a tanker sunk by a German U-boat in World War Two.
Saturday, April 14th 2012 - 06:32 UTC
“Argentina: shame on you”; Editorial from Canada’s Globe and Mail

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has said it is “absurd” for the British government, which has enjoyed sovereignty over the Falkland Islands for 180 years, to maintain its claim from an ocean away “when these Islands are part of our maritime platform.” Applying the logic of Ms. Kirchner, Canada should be stoking international tensions in an effort to annex Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. And perhaps Greenland.
Saturday, April 14th 2012 - 06:21 UTC
Falklands veteran Royal Marine and yomper, feels Falklands are well defended

Retired Royal Marine Brigadier Ian Gardiner, who commanded a Marine company in the 1982 Falklands war, thinks a new Argentine attack on the Islands is unlikely.
Saturday, April 14th 2012 - 06:17 UTC
Ocampo drops out from World Bank bid; gives full support to Nigerian candidate

Former Colombian finance minister Jose Antonio Ocampo ended his bid to become World Bank president on Friday, leaving two candidates in an unprecedented challenge to US control of the global development institution.
Friday, April 13th 2012 - 07:30 UTC
Obama will not yield on drugs decriminalization and Cuba policies

US President Barack Obama arrives Friday night in Colombia for the sixth Summit of the Americas where he is expected to hang tough on Washington's anti-narcotics and Cuba policies, positions ever-more unpopular in a region drifting away from US dominance.
Friday, April 13th 2012 - 00:53 UTC
The remarkable robust 1945 line and the Falkland Islands dispute

By Gwynne Dyer - International human rights campaigner and occasional actor Sean Penn, whose well-deserved Nobel Peace Prize continues to be delayed for mysterious reasons, was the first famous foreigner to lend his support to the cause. “The world today is not going to tolerate any ludicrous and archaic commitment to colonialist ideology,” he told Cristina Kirchner, the president of Argentina. He was speaking, of course, of the Falkland Islands.
Friday, April 13th 2012 - 00:50 UTC
In three years the ‘Obama magic’ has turned irrelevant for most Latam leaders

Three years after being received by Latin American leaders as a super-star, US President Barack Obama faces scepticism and disappointment at this weekend’s Summit of the Americas for failing to meet promises of a new era in relations with the region.
Thursday, April 12th 2012 - 06:14 UTC
Nine ‘illegal’ Peruvian miners rescued after six days trapped underground

Nine Peruvian miners emerged into the daylight Wednesday morning after six days trapped in a collapsed mine. State television showed the miners leaving the Cabeza de Negro mine, each supported by two rescuers. They wore sunglasses to protect their eyes from the light, after spending so much time in darkness.
Thursday, April 12th 2012 - 05:42 UTC
Montevideo ready for Paul McCartney’s On the Run show next Sunday

Former Beatle Paul McCartney begins next Sunday in Uruguay his On the run tour of Latin America that ends next 8 May in Mexico City. Montevideo authorities have announced Sir Paul, in his first visit to Uruguay, will be declared ‘illustrious citizen’.
Thursday, April 12th 2012 - 01:30 UTC
Argentina insists the “Malvinas issue” will be discussed at the Americas summit

Argentina’s sovereignty claim over the Falklands/Malvinas will be addressed during the Sixth Summit of the Americas this weekend in Colombia, where 33 heads of state and government are scheduled to meet, said Colombian Foreign Affairs minister Maria Angela Holguin.