Politics

Monday, November 16th 2009 - 16:31 UTC
Israeli president Shimon Peres in Argentina for two-day visit

Israeli President Shimon Peres, who will meet Monday with President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, arrived Sunday night in Buenos Aires for his two-day official visit, the first of an Israeli head of state in decades.
Monday, November 16th 2009 - 16:24 UTC
The Hague ruling on Botnia pulp mill controversy will “favour Uruguay”

The International Court of The Hague will rule favourably for Uruguay in the litigation with Argentina over the Botnia pulp mill constructed on the Uruguayan side of a jointly managed river, anticipated Uruguay’s chief attorney in the case, Paul Reichler.
Monday, November 16th 2009 - 16:17 UTC
Brazilian military launch Operation Lasso with the Itaipú dam in mind

Brazil launched Sunday military exercises involving the three services and located in three states next to landlocked Paraguay with the “main target” being the recovery of a bi-national hydroelectric dam that has fallen into the hands of an enemy country.
Monday, November 16th 2009 - 16:14 UTC
Chavez ready to bombard clouds, with Cuban help, to force rainfall

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez announced he will begin bombarding not Colombia, but the clouds so as to trigger much needed precipitations to help fill up dams and reservoirs, at record low levels, and which have forced water and power rationing.
Monday, November 16th 2009 - 16:12 UTC
Panama anticipates it will recognize Honduran election and winner

Panama President Ricardo Martinelli said his country “will recognize the winner” of the coming Honduran presidential election next November 29th. “We will recognize the election process and the winner”, said Martinelli in an interview with La Estrella from Panama City.
Monday, November 16th 2009 - 14:27 UTC
Queen’s Speech will announce radical changes in London City banking

London City regulators are to be given new powers to tear up bankers' contracts if they include excessive pay and bonus deals which might threaten the stability of the financial system.
Monday, November 16th 2009 - 14:19 UTC
Afro-Brazilians victims of discrimination, injustice and violence says UN

While Brazil has an “impressive” set of laws and policies to promote human rights and improve socio-economic well-being, indigenous groups and Afro-Brazilians face serious discrimination, injustice and violence, warned the United Nations human rights chief.
Monday, November 16th 2009 - 14:15 UTC
FIFA bans Maradona for two months on qualifier incident in Montevideo

Argentina head coach Diego Maradona has been banned from football for two months and fined by FIFA as punishment for his rant at journalists following Argentina's qualification for the World Cup finals a month ago in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Saturday, November 14th 2009 - 13:57 UTC
Chavez rejects Brazilian proposal for Colombian/Venezuelan hot border

President Hugo Chavez on Friday rejected a joint border monitoring system with Colombia which was proposed by Brazil. He said he would not allow any “extra-national force” along the Venezuelan border zone with Colombia.
Saturday, November 14th 2009 - 13:51 UTC
Argentine bishops call on CFK to combat poverty and consolidate democracy

The Argentine Catholic Church urged the government to combat the “dramatic” situation of the poor and demanded the authorities consolidate democratic institutions and defuse growing social unrest.