Politics

Tuesday, October 25th 2011 - 21:06 UTC
US disassembles last of Cold War’s most potent nuclear bombs

The last of the United States' most powerful nuclear bombs — a weapon hundreds of times more destructive than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima — is being disassembled nearly fifty years after it was put into service, informed Tuesday the newspaper Texas Star-Telegram.
Tuesday, October 25th 2011 - 19:45 UTC
Crises in the US and Spain have Uruguayans returning in growing numbers

Uruguayan expatriates are returning at an average of 350 per month which is three times the 2010 rate, but his only refers to those that have formally requested advice and assistance from the country’s Foreign Affairs ‘Return and Welcome Office’.
Tuesday, October 25th 2011 - 03:40 UTC
Argentina formally multiparty, but with an only hegemonic political force

Leaving names aside, Sunday’s election consolidates in Argentina the hegemonic Peronist movement as the prevailing political force to the extent that it not only amply occupies officialdom but also part of the opposition, argues Rosendo Fraga a renowned Argentine political analyst and historian.
Tuesday, October 25th 2011 - 03:32 UTC
Cristina Fernandez establishes several records in Argentine electoral history

The extraordinary showing of President Cristina Fernandez established a new set of records in Argentine electoral history. The difference over her runner up Hermes Binner was just below that of Juan Domingo Peron (Argentina’s icon political leader of the XXth century) when he returned triumphantly after 17 years in exile in Spain to the presidency.
Tuesday, October 25th 2011 - 03:29 UTC
CFK recovers control over both houses and with sufficient seats for quorum

The Sunday landslide victory of President Cristina Fernandez means the coalition she leads has regained control of both houses of Congress (lost in the 2009 debacle) and with a sufficient majority to work with its own quorum.
Monday, October 24th 2011 - 22:55 UTC
US government sends e-mailed congratulations to re-elected Argentine president

The US Government congratulated President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner after being re-elected and assured that it will continue to work with the Argentine government to strengthen bilateral ties, State Department spokesman for Latin America William Ostick said.
Monday, October 24th 2011 - 20:48 UTC
Menem re-elected Senator says the only post he’s missing is ‘Pope’

Former president Carlos Menem who ruled Argentina for ten years running and was re-elected on Sunday as one of three Senators for his home province of La Rioja, said the only post he’s missing to be named for is ‘Pope’.
Monday, October 24th 2011 - 20:25 UTC
Unasur readies for summit when Paraguay takes pro-tempore presidency

The Union of South American Nations, UNASUR summit will take place in Paraguay next October 29 in the sidelines of the two-day XXI Ibero-American meeting of heads of government and state, revealed the Paraguayan Foreign Affairs minister Jorge Lara Castro.
Monday, October 24th 2011 - 19:36 UTC
Falklands Councillor, Emma Edwards, resigns from Legislative Assembly

In a statement from Government House, issued last Friday, the 21st October, it was confirmed that Emma Edwards has resigned as a Member of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly (MLA). And that His Excellency the Governor, Mr Nigel Haywood CVO, had accepted “with regret” the resignation.
Monday, October 24th 2011 - 15:57 UTC
UK congratulates CFK and reiterates Falklands’ sovereignty is ‘not negotiable’

The British government congratulated Argentine President Cristina Fernandez on her re-election and historic victory in Sunday’s polls but it also insisted that the sovereignty of the Falklands is “not negotiable”.