Politics

• Sunday, May 6th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Mercosur Parliament formally opens in Montevideo

  

  The Mercosur Parliament will hold its first formal session this Monday in Montevideo when 72 elected representatives, 18 for each founding member of the group, convenes in Uruguay's Legislative Palace to discuss regional policies.

• Saturday, May 5th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands Warship attack recalled. HMS Sheffield loss “unnecessary”

  

  Argentina's first fatal strike against the British Falklands Task Force in May1982, sinking the air defence destroyer HMS Sheffield, has been recalled in media reports and dramatic recollections of men involved in the action.

• Saturday, May 5th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Airline pilots warn lack of radars in Buenos Aires airports

  

  The International Federation of Airlines Pilots Associations, with over 100.000 members globally has warned that pilots operating in Argentine airspace must exercise extreme vigilance and awareness because of the lack of radars in the Buenos Aires area.

• Friday, May 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  President Chavez threatens banks with nationalization

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened on Thursday to nationalize the country's banks and largest steel producer, if they don't join the country's economic expansion plans.

• Friday, May 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Basic training in human rights for Argentine troops

  Hundreds of Argentine troops are headed back to class for a different sort of basic training — in human rights.

• Friday, May 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands: Penguin News Weekly Update

  

  Headlines:
  Tourist Board: no confidence vote for directors; Pension reversal; Harriet lands new job; War losses remembered; A long distance interview; Expo plans progress.

• Friday, May 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina:
  “Air force material obsolete”

  

  Defence Minister Nilda Garré, speaking after an air force pilot died on Tuesday as his plane crashed, said that Argentina's air military material is old due to more than 20 years of “disinvestment.”

• Thursday, May 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  World Press Freedom Day May 3. UN alarmed over media freedom

  

  “World Press Freedom Day reminds us all — governments, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations as well as civil society – of the crucial role a free press plays in strengthening democracies and fostering development around the world”.

• Thursday, May 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Cuban forces foil attempt to hijack a civilian aircraft

  

  Fugitive Cuban army recruits killed a military officer they took hostage early Thursday in a failed attempt to hijack a plane bound for the United States according to a release from the Interior Ministry. Two of the escaped recruits were arrested after Army Lt. Col. Victor Ibo Acuña Velazquez was killed in the aborted hijacking.

• Wednesday, May 2nd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Disaster management team in the Falkland Islands

  

  “To spread the word that preparedness does save lives” This was the reason given by Frank Savage, adviser on disaster management to the British Foreign and Commonwealth's Overseas Territories Department (FCO/OTD), why he and colleague, Roger Bellers of the Department for International Development (DFID) are in the Falkland Islands this week.