Politics

• Wednesday, June 19th 2013 - 05:58 UTC

  Bolivia’s Morales third presidential bid triggers strong controversy, involving OAS

  

  Organization of American States, OAS, Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza apologized to Bolivian president Evo Morales for the disclosure of a letter in which the indigenous leader back in 2008 when the discussion of a new constitution pledged he would not run for a third consecutive mandate.

• Wednesday, June 19th 2013 - 05:48 UTC

  Argentina bans British made ejection seats from local jet trainer IA-63 Pampa III

  

  Argentine jet trainer manufacturer FAdeA has been banned from installing a British made ejection seat in a new version of the Pampa by the government of President Cristina Fernandez, according to company boss Raul Arganaraz.

• Wednesday, June 19th 2013 - 02:56 UTC

  Malvinas C24 Argentina petitioners: Maria Angelia Vernet and Alejandro Betts

  

  Maria Angelica Vernet and Falklands’ born Alejandro Betts will be Argentina’s petitioners at Thursday’s June 20 United Nations Decolonization Committee session in New York when the Falklands/Malvinas Islands sovereignty dispute will be addressed.

• Wednesday, June 19th 2013 - 02:24 UTC

  Mercosur is ‘quite discredited’ and needs Paraguay back to ‘clean its image’

  

  Mercosur needs suspended Paraguay to return to the group because it has ‘to clean its image’ and because its international standing has fallen quite seriously, said a former Paraguayan ambassador suggesting Asuncion should not rush, since the initiative must come from Mercosur.

• Wednesday, June 19th 2013 - 00:14 UTC

  India-Argentina pledge to improve trade; Timerman thanks Delhi support on Malvinas dispute

  

  India and Argentina pledged to improve trade relations, particularly in “non-traditional areas” said Argentine Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman alongside his counterpart, Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid, at the end of his visit to India. Timerman also thanked New Delhi for its support in the Falklands/Malvinas dispute.

• Tuesday, June 18th 2013 - 15:12 UTC

  UN human rights commissioner calls on Brazil to react with moderation to social protests

  

  United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay has asked Brazilian authorities to react with moderation to the social protests that have spread through out the country and at the same time has called on demonstrators to avoid using violence to get their message heard.

• Tuesday, June 18th 2013 - 07:33 UTC

  Falklands’ C24 debate: Timerman heads Argentine delegation and includes two governors

  

  The governors, from Tierra del Fuego and Santa Fe will be part of the delegation when the Argentine presentation before the UN Decolonisation Committee on the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty dispute, next Thursday June 20 in New York.

• Tuesday, June 18th 2013 - 07:27 UTC

  Protests in Brazil against profligate spending and poor services extend to major cities

  

  Demonstrators clashed with police in central Rio do Janeiro on Monday evening as more than 200,000 people turned out to the streets of major Brazilian cities to protest the billions of dollars spent on the Confederations Cup, higher public transport costs, corruption and poor services.

• Tuesday, June 18th 2013 - 07:20 UTC

  Thousands camp in the Peruvian Andes to protect a lake from major gold mining project

  

  Thousands of opponents of a 5 billion dollars gold project of Newmont Mining circled a lake high in the Andes, in Cajamarca province vowing to stop the company from eventually draining it to make way for Peru's most expensive mine.

• Tuesday, June 18th 2013 - 02:45 UTC

  British tapped phones and computers of G20 summit held in London, claims The Guardian

  

  Foreign politicians could have had their telephones and computers intercepted in G20 summit meetings in London in 2009, a group to which Argentina belongs, according to an exclusive report carried out by British newspaper The Guardian after it gained access to certain documents that could cause problems for the British government.