Politics

Friday, September 24th 2010 - 05:49 UTC
Falklands, Iran, Palestine, issues of Mrs Kirchner address to UN assembly

Renewed Falkland Islands claim, reformulation of international organisms, Iran and Palestine are among the issues that Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will be addressing in her speech before the UN 65th General Assembly on Friday, according to Argentine diplomatic sources.
Friday, September 24th 2010 - 05:12 UTC
Uruguay marks distance from Argentina: UK does not come to plunder resources

Uruguayan president Jose Mujica marked distance from Argentina’s Cristina Kirchner and said that denying clearance to a Falkland Islands bound British destroyer to call in Montevideo was based on previous decisions on the issue and “not in a defence of interests against the UK”, reports the local daily Ultima Noticias.
Friday, September 24th 2010 - 02:46 UTC
Top journalism awards for Mexican photographer and Argentine reporter

A Mexican photographer who documented his country's drug war and an Argentine reporter who wrote about identifying the victims of Argentina's military dictatorship were awarded this week one of Latin America's most prestigious journalism awards.
Friday, September 24th 2010 - 02:44 UTC
Mrs. Kirchner confirms controversial economist as central bank president

The Argentine government confirmed Mercedes Marco del Pont as president of the Central bank. She supported and executed the controversial use of international reserves to pay sovereign debt, an issue which forced the ousting of her predecessor in the post, respected banker Martin Perez Redrado.
Friday, September 24th 2010 - 01:19 UTC
Colombian forces kill FARC top military commander and capture main camp

The number two leader of the Colombian FARC guerrilla group has been killed in a military raid, President Juan Manuel Santos said Thursday. Victor Julio Suarez Rojas, also known as Jorge Briceño Suarez and by his nom de guerre Mono Jojoy, was the military leader for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
Santos called the rebel leader's death a “historic” event.
Thursday, September 23rd 2010 - 04:56 UTC
Obama promises to revamp US foreign policy; helping poor countries is “national interest”

President Barack Obama has told the UN a revamped US foreign aid policy will help lift nations out of poverty by focusing on good governance and encouraging trade and investment.
Thursday, September 23rd 2010 - 04:51 UTC
Argentina ignores Paraguay; builds new canal to pump water from shared river

Landlocked and Mercosur member Paraguay will formally complain to its peer Argentina the non consulted and unilateral decision to build a canal adjacent to a shared river that acts as a natural border and provides both sides’ agriculture and ecosystems with a vital water supply.
Thursday, September 23rd 2010 - 04:04 UTC
Argentine main business sectors reject unions’ supervised profit-sharing bill

Argentina leading business associations representing agriculture, industry, banking and construction sectors rejected point blank the bill out lined by a Kirchnerite lawmaker for the distribution of company profits among workers and employees.
Thursday, September 23rd 2010 - 02:02 UTC
Chavez set to win Sundays’ legislative election: question is the day after?

The Venezuelan opposition is certain to make gains in Sunday’s legislative elections but not enough to wrest legislative control from President Hugo Chavez in the 12th year of his socialist “revolution”.
Thursday, September 23rd 2010 - 02:01 UTC
Head of the US 700 billion USD bail-out program steps down

The US Treasury Department official in charge of overseeing the government's Troubled Asset Relief Program (Tarp) is stepping down. Herb Allison said that he was resigning now that the US bail-out programme was winding down.