Politics

• Friday, March 9th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Chavez accuses Bush of trying to “divide” Latinamerica

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez warned that President George W. Bush's attempts to bolster trade and improve ties with Latin America threaten to divide the region and undermine economic stability.

• Friday, March 9th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Bush to talk trade with a long standing US strategic ally

  United States president George Bush arrived from Brazil at 21:35 local time in Montevideo, Uruguay, the second leg of his five countries Latinamerican trip and is scheduled to leave early Sunday morning for Colombia.

• Friday, March 9th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Kirchner and Chavez boost energy/farm cooperation

  President Nestor Kirchner and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez signed accords on Friday to boost energy and agriculture cooperation. The highlight was a treaty to work toward the creation of a South American organization to coordinate exports of natural gas, signed in a ceremony at Argentina's suburban presidential residence.

• Thursday, March 8th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Lula hosts Bush and says Doha round agreement “is close”

  

  Brazil and United States will attempt to advance the Doha global trade talks during US president George Bush's official two day visit to Brazil which begins today Thursday.

• Thursday, March 8th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Bush accustomed to running “into demonstrations”

  

  US President George Bush said that if Venezuela's leader Hugo Chavez wants to protest from Argentina when he's visiting Uruguay this weekend, he can do so because “I'm accustomed to traveling and running into demonstrations all over the world”.

• Thursday, March 8th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Chavez ready for anti Bush display Friday in Argentina

  Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez cancelled his daily radio program to concentrate on several cooperation agreements to be signed with Argentina Friday and Saturday announced the country's Ministry of Communications.

• Thursday, March 8th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Ecuadorian police bars legislators from Congress

  Police surrounded Ecuador's Congress in Quito Thursday to keep out dozens of Deputies who were fired a day earlier by four electoral judges the lawmakers had sought to impeach in the latest constitutional crisis for the small Andean nation.

• Thursday, March 8th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Bush's agenda: care for the 200 million Latinamericans in poverty

  Extending the benefits of democracy to all the region's peoples and helping 200 million Latinamericans living in poverty to improve their condition are the main purposes of US President George Bush's visit to five Latinamerican countries said Thomas Shannon, Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs.

• Tuesday, March 6th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Road blockers threaten Easter holidays

  

  Environmentalists in Entre Ríos who are opposing the construction of the Finnish Botnia pulp plant in Fray Bentos yesterday said they could go for a total closure of the three road crossings to Uruguay during Easter week.

• Tuesday, March 6th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Only trade and biofuels in the Lula da Silva/Bush agenda

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Monday that during his meeting next Friday with United States President George W. Bush he does not intend to talk about Venezuela, but about trade and biofuels.