Politics

• Thursday, March 24th 2011 - 18:32 UTC

  Colombian military began using US supplied drones in 2006

  

  The Colombian military began using US supplied drones for counter-terrorism and narcotics operations in 2006, U.S. documents released by WikiLeaks indicate.

• Thursday, March 24th 2011 - 18:16 UTC

  Last of released Cuban ‘Group of 75’ prisoners pledge to continue political rights campaign

  

  Cuba’s last prisoners from among the “Group of 75” dissidents rounded up and jailed by the Castro brothers’ regime in March 2003 were freed Wednesday.

• Thursday, March 24th 2011 - 18:05 UTC

  US must be more pro-active if it wants access to Brazilian oil, says Petrobras

  

  The United States must pay more importance to its strategic alliance with Brazil if it really wants to benefit from Petrobras’ recently discovered deep-water oil and natural gas reserves in the Atlantic Ocean, the company’s CEO, Jose Sergio Gabrielli, said.

• Thursday, March 24th 2011 - 17:53 UTC

  Guatemala’s First Couple divorce so First Lady can bid for the presidency

  

  Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom and wife Sandra Torres have filed a request for “divorce by mutual consent” to allow the first lady to run in September’s presidential election, the judiciary this week.

• Thursday, March 24th 2011 - 17:39 UTC

  Only 3 points difference between Peru leading presidential hopefuls for April 10

  

  Two weeks before the first round of voting in the Peruvian presidential election the two leading candidates are technically tied, and so are runner ups, according to the latest public opinion poll published this week in the Lima media.

• Thursday, March 24th 2011 - 07:08 UTC

  Federal Reserve board member warns about “extraordinary speculative activity”

  

  United States Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard W. Fisher said he sees “extraordinary speculative activity” in the US after the central bank pumped record amounts of stimulus into the economy.

• Thursday, March 24th 2011 - 06:56 UTC

  Guess what? “in the (Falklands) Malvinas Islands they only speak English”

  

  In the Malvinas Islands, guess what? They speak English according to Juan Antonio Agulles, mayor of the Argentine town of Malargüe, recently back from a trip to the Falkland Islands with a delegation of the so-called Rugby with out Frontiers.

• Thursday, March 24th 2011 - 06:01 UTC

  US Congressman to assess Easter Island conflict between Rapa Nui natives and Chile

  

  The United States congressman representing the territory of American Samoa has announced he will be traveling to Easter Island during the Congressional recess to assess recent developments between the legitimate representatives of the Rapa Nui clans and the Chilean government.

• Wednesday, March 23rd 2011 - 19:35 UTC

  Moyano insists organized labor must be present in CFK October ballot ticket

  

  Argentina’s powerful organized labour head, Hugo Moyano kept his pressure on the government saying that President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, CFK, will seek re-election on October’s elections.

• Wednesday, March 23rd 2011 - 03:28 UTC

  Obama in El Salvador shifts from economic success to drugs and immigration

  

  President Barack Obama is nearing the end of a five-day tour of three Latin American nations to underscore the advance of democracy, and strong economic growth in the region.