Politics

• Tuesday, July 14th 2009 - 02:41 UTC

  Argentina requests Non-Aligned Movement observer status

  

  The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) countries will consider the admission of Argentina and the World Peace Council (WPC) as observers during the XVth. conference and triennial summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, according to a press release distributed by the summit secretariat Sunday.

• Tuesday, July 14th 2009 - 02:15 UTC

  Speculation about US thumbs down to Insulza’s OAS re-election

  

  Chilean media reported this weekend that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has twice stated to Chile’s government that the US will not support the re-election in 2010 of Chile’s José Miguel Insulza to head the Organization of American States (OAS).

• Monday, July 13th 2009 - 12:17 UTC

  Pressure mounting for the ousting of Lula da Silva’s crucial Senate ally

  

  Fresh reports of alleged fraud and embezzlement by Brazil Senate president Jose Sarney proliferated in Brazil's weekend press fuelling an ongoing Senate ethics scandal plus renewing pressure for Sarney to resign.

• Monday, July 13th 2009 - 12:16 UTC

  Argentine farmers and industry accept dialogue, but also want “deep changes”

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s call to a dialogue with all sectors and “on all issues” received a positive response from farmers and manufactures, but they also requested “deep changes” following the government’s defeat on June 28th mid term election.

• Monday, July 13th 2009 - 11:52 UTC

  France best positioned for Brazil’s Air Force 4.5 billion USD contract

  

  US defence contractor Boeing Co is prepared to have Brazilian companies supply a “big portion” of components for its Super Hornet jetfighter, creating as many as 5.000 local jobs, to sell 36 of the warplanes to Brazil. The pledge comes as Boeing manoeuvres against competitors France’s Dassault Aviation and Sweden’s Saab AB.

• Monday, July 13th 2009 - 11:36 UTC

  Falklands’ war air battles marks record rating in Argentina

  

  History Channel established a new record audience rating in Argentina with the June release of “1982: Malvinas, the war from the air”, an original production from the channel which chronicles the clash of the Argentine Air Force with the British Task Force sent to recover the Islands.

• Monday, July 13th 2009 - 11:33 UTC

  Mercosur is an “empty architecture” with rhetoric support

  

  Mercosur can’t find its social and political dimension, political parties don’t discuss the issue and as it stands it is an empty architecture, and sentenced, according to former Argentine vice-president Carlos Alvarez. He also warned about possible changes in regional agreements as Brazil becomes a full player in world politics.

• Sunday, July 12th 2009 - 17:42 UTC

  New York Philharmonic will play in Havana next October

  

  The head of the New York Philharmonic met with Cuban officials and toured facilities in Havana on Saturday ahead of an October visit to the Castro brothers’ regime by the renowned orchestra.

• Sunday, July 12th 2009 - 17:40 UTC

  New cabinet in Peru must restore “confidence and optimism”

  

  Peruvian President Alan Garcia appointed Saturday Congress President Javier Velasquez as cabinet chief and shuffled his cabinet a month after protests against logging and oil concessions turned deadly.

• Saturday, July 11th 2009 - 18:07 UTC

  Paraguay plans to open trade office in Shanghai

  

  A Paraguayan delegation of government officials and private sector representatives will be travelling to China in the near future to begin conversations for the formal establishment of trade relations with Beijing, announced the country’s Foreign Affairs minister Hector Lacognata.