Politics

• Tuesday, September 6th 2011 - 06:34 UTC

  Colombia’s new defence minister is President Santos closest aide

  

  Colombia’s new defence minister vowed on Monday a forceful response to illegal armed groups and more innovation in confronting guerrillas and drug barons in the country.

• Tuesday, September 6th 2011 - 06:31 UTC

  A China/Mercosur trade agreement would be “something extraordinary”

  

  A free trade agreement, (FTA), between China and Mercosur could be “something extraordinary”, said Argentine Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman who next Thursday begins a political and business mission in Beijing.

• Tuesday, September 6th 2011 - 06:28 UTC

  European markets plunge on renewed Euro fears and lack of confidence

  

  World shares fell Tuesday morning and the Euro came under pressure following a huge sell-off in Europe as renewed Euro zone debt woes added to already weak confidence in the global economy.

• Tuesday, September 6th 2011 - 03:05 UTC

  Argentina’s future closely knit as supplier to China’s growing middle class

  

  The growing Chinese middle class which could reach 500 million people by 2025 will be the great locomotive for commodities demand in the coming decades benefiting countries such as Argentina according to an Asian affairs and trade expert.

• Tuesday, September 6th 2011 - 02:55 UTC

  Argentine farmers’ leader apologizes for offensive remarks against CFK voters

  

  The head of Argentina’s powerful Rural Society Hugo Biolcati rectified his previous controversial statements towards the 50% of the population that chose to vote for President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, CFK, during the August 14 primary elections.

• Tuesday, September 6th 2011 - 00:49 UTC

  World safer than in aftermath of 9/11, say EU and NATO officials

  

  The world is safer today than in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks on the United States, with global terror groups weaker than 10 years ago, senior EU and NATO officials said Monday.

• Tuesday, September 6th 2011 - 00:41 UTC

  Meeting in Buenos Aires to “recondition Argentine missiles” with Brazilian technology

  

  Brazil’s Minister of Defence Celso Amorim is in Buenos Aires for several scheduled meetings this week with his Argentine counterpart Arturo Puricelli and to establish closer ties in defence issues in the framework of Unasur (Union of South American nations).

• Tuesday, September 6th 2011 - 00:36 UTC

  Central Bank urges EU members to press ahead with financial reforms

  

  The current and incoming head of the European Central Bank demanded that European governments quickly implement a strengthening of a regional bailout fund and press ahead with wider reforms.

• Monday, September 5th 2011 - 10:02 UTC

  Defense minister and lose aide of Raul Castro dies; 3 days national mourning

  

  Gen. Julio Casas Regueiro, an accountant who fought in Cuba's revolution, then used his training to run the military's lucrative economic enterprises for two decades before becoming defense minister, has died, state television reported. He was 75.

• Monday, September 5th 2011 - 05:56 UTC

  Two-day national mourning in Chile for the victims of the plane crash at sea

  

  Chile on Sunday declared two days of national mourning after rescuers gave up hope for 21 people believed killed when an air force plane crashed off Juan Fernandez (Robinson Crusoe) Island in the Pacific.