Politics

• Tuesday, September 8th 2009 - 05:51 UTC

  Colombian magistrate sends strong message to President Alvaro Uribe

  

  The head of Colombia’s Constitutional court Nilson Pinilla said the country can “trust” the decision of the court, regarding the law that calls for a referendum on the re-election of President Alvaro Uribe for a third consecutive term.

• Tuesday, September 8th 2009 - 01:15 UTC

  Kirchners ready to allow IMF review of the Argentine economy

  

  Four years after Argentina froze relations with the International Monetary Fund under the administration of President Nestor Kirchner, the government of his wife Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is willing to accept an IMF review of the Argentine economy, according to Economy minister Amado Boudou, quoted in the Buenos Aires press.

• Monday, September 7th 2009 - 14:58 UTC

  Argentine pulp mill protestors promise to “fight on” whatever The Hague ruling

  

  With only a week left for the beginning of the hearings in the International Court of Justice in The Hague on the pulp mills dispute between Uruguay and Argentina, pickets that have been blocking bridges between the two neighbouring countries promised to keep on the struggle.

• Monday, September 7th 2009 - 14:52 UTC

  France consolidates as main supplier for Brazilian Navy re-equipment

  

  The military cooperation agreement to be signed Monday by Brazilian president Lula da Silva and his French counterpart, Nicholas Sarkozy will make Brazil the “leading naval power” in Latinamerica according to the O Estado de Sao Paulo.

• Monday, September 7th 2009 - 14:49 UTC

  Brazil has the “knowledge to build an atomic bomb”

  

  Brazil has the necessary knowledge to build an atomic bomb according to an article in Sunday’s edition of Jornal do Brazil. The statement is based on a doctoral thesis presented recently at the Military Institute of Engineering IME.

• Monday, September 7th 2009 - 14:42 UTC

  Iran and Chavez to fight “imperialist” foes and help revolutionary nations

  

  Iran and Venezuela plan to stand up against “imperialist” foes by strengthening bilateral cooperation on a range of issues, including nuclear power, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said over the weekend.

• Monday, September 7th 2009 - 14:32 UTC

  Crucial WTO ruling on the “jumbo” dispute over subsidies in plane industry

  

  World Trade Organization (WTO) has given its long-awaited ruling on the biggest trade dispute in its history. The decision, which is officially confidential, is over whether the European Union gave illegal subsidies to plane-maker Airbus as the US argues.

• Monday, September 7th 2009 - 14:06 UTC

  Argentine next-of-kin preparing for trip to open Darwin cemetery Memorial

  

  Over 300 relatives from Argentines combatants killed in 1982 during the Falkland Islands conflict are preparing for the trip for the official inauguration of the Memorial at the Argentine cemetery in Darwin, according to Cesar Trejo member of the Malvinas Families Commission.

• Saturday, September 5th 2009 - 13:17 UTC

  Argentine farmers end eight day boycott promising to “keep fighting”

  

  Argentine farmers marked on Friday the end of an eight-day sales boycott with rallies and marches promising to “keep fighting” in support of aid for peers suffering from the worst drought in decades and to eliminate the current export tariffs system which distorts production and threatens several crops.

• Saturday, September 5th 2009 - 13:11 UTC

  Conservative presidential candidate remains clearly ahead in opinion polls

  

  The latest Centre of Public Studies (CEP) poll, released Thursday, shows Chilean presidential candidate Sebastián Piñera of the conservative Alianza coalition maintains a nine-point lead over Senator Eduardo Frei in a hypothetical first-round presidential election.