Politics

• Thursday, March 31st 2011 - 01:40 UTC

  Humala leads in Peruvian presidential race but run-off chances are “unlikely”

  

  Presidential election races in Peru have a history of being unpredictable. What initially seemed to be a three-way battle to succeed outgoing president Alan Garcia now appears to be a five-way tussle ahead of the first round of voting on April 10 according to a report from Capital Economics.

• Thursday, March 31st 2011 - 01:33 UTC

  EU says Argentina’s import restrictions hurt talks for trade deal with Mercosur

  

  Argentina's moves to restrict imports and prop up its shrinking trade surplus as well as European farmers resistance to ‘cheap’ meat imports could hurt talks for a trade deal between Mercosur and the European Union, an EU official said on Wednesday.

• Thursday, March 31st 2011 - 01:10 UTC

  Argentina promotes world-wide Malvinas discussion under the logo of “It takes two to tango”

  

  Argentine ambassador before United Nations Jorge Argüello is scheduled to give a conference this week in Bangkok, Thailand on the ‘Malvinas Islands issue” and the South Atlantic situation.

• Wednesday, March 30th 2011 - 05:25 UTC

  Israel concerned with Uruguay’s position in an Israeli/Palestinian forum

  

  Israel will follow with a critical eye the United Nations organized forum on the Israel-Palestine conflict which opened Tuesday in Montevideo, because whatever the results, the Israeli government is ‘particularly interested in the Uruguayan government’s position’.

• Wednesday, March 30th 2011 - 05:14 UTC

  Argentina honours Chavez with press freedom award for fighting “media monopolies”

  

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was given a press freedom award during his visit on Tuesday to Argentina. The University of La Plata said it was honouring him for his efforts to break “media monopolies” in Latin America and support “popular communication”.

• Wednesday, March 30th 2011 - 05:08 UTC

  Chavez praises Argentina’s role in UNASUR; signs ambitious trade accord

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chávez underlined the significance of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) during his one day visit to Buenos Aires. Chavez is on a tour of the region that also includes Uruguay, Bolivia and Colombia.

• Wednesday, March 30th 2011 - 05:03 UTC

  G20 meeting in China expected to address Japan, Libya and European debt crisis

  

  China hosts Wednesday a Group 20 leaders meeting, originally scheduled to address the international monetary system, most probably criticism of the US Federal Reserve for flooding the world with money, but the latest world events, Japan, Libya and Europe’s debt crisis are bound to change the emphasis of the agenda.

• Tuesday, March 29th 2011 - 19:44 UTC

  Cristina Kirchner will head April 2 Malvinas Veterans Day in Rio Gallegos

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will head the main commemoration of Malvinas Veteran and Malvinas Fallen Day next Saturday in Rio Gallegos, Patagonia which will be attended by former combatants and next of kin from those who lost their loved ones during the 1982 South Atlantic conflict.

• Tuesday, March 29th 2011 - 17:41 UTC

  Argentine Jewish organization denies any pact between Buenos Aires and Teheran

  

  The Buenos Aires Jewish organization AMIA which suffered a deadly attack in 1994 denied the existence of an alleged pact (in the making) between Argentina and Iran which would put an end to the investigations related to the bombing in exchange for the resumption of trade links with Teheran.

• Tuesday, March 29th 2011 - 04:53 UTC

  Obama justifies his first war, but will not go down the Iraq road

  

  US President Barack Obama has defended the first war launched under his presidency, insisting US military involvement in Libya will be limited. He told Americans US intervention as part of the coalition had saved “countless lives” threatened by the forces of the “tyrant” Muammar Gaddafi.