Politics

• Thursday, August 12th 2010 - 17:56 UTC

  Possible way out to Gibraltar/La Linea ‘car congestion tax’ controversy

  

  Spain's Public Works Ministry (Ministero de Fomento) has refused La Linea permission to divert traffic toward a toll gate, in a move that could scupper controversial plans to tax drivers heading to Gibraltar, reports the local press.

• Thursday, August 12th 2010 - 17:46 UTC

  Uruguay calls for a Mercosur with “open regionalism” for smaller members

  

  Uruguay called on Brazil and Argentina to allow Mercosur junior members to reach unilateral trade agreements with third countries helping to boost the group’s dynamism.

• Thursday, August 12th 2010 - 04:58 UTC

  Chilean president to spend most October and November overseas

  

  Chilean president Sebastián Piñera will be travelling to the United States, Europe and Asia in the coming months with the purpose of boosting trade and investment, announced Wednesday Foreign Affairs minister Alfredo Moreno.

• Thursday, August 12th 2010 - 04:49 UTC

  Businessman is next Chilean ambassador in London

  

  Businessman Tomas Müller has been nominated as the new Chilean ambassador in London. He will be replacing Rafael Moreno. The announcement was made this week by Chilean Foreign Affairs minister Alfredo Moreno and visiting Foreign office minister Jeremy Browne.

• Thursday, August 12th 2010 - 04:33 UTC

  Chavez admits Colombia can sign military agreements even with United States

  

  Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez said Colombia is “sovereign” and as such can sign a military agreement with the United States, an issue which at the time triggered a bilateral conflict and which he admitted having addressed with Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos during their meeting this week.

• Thursday, August 12th 2010 - 04:30 UTC

  Hillary Clinton praises Argentina for its role in helping consolidate peace

  

  Argentine Foreign Affairs Minister Héctor Timerman and US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, met at the US Department of State Wednesday on what was the second and final day of the minister's diplomatic trip to Washington, DC

• Thursday, August 12th 2010 - 04:14 UTC

  Nixon attempts to prevent Mitrione’s 1970 murder by Uruguayan urban guerrillas

  

  President Richard Nixon’s administration suggested that Uruguayan leaders try to prevent the impending murder of a kidnapped US official by threatening to kill members of the insurgent group responsible for the abduction, according to newly declassified cables reproduced by Bloomberg News.

• Wednesday, August 11th 2010 - 23:38 UTC

  Piñera promises full investigation into accident with 33 trapped miners

  

  With 33 miners remain trapped in a mine near the city of Copiapó in Chile’s north the Chilean government is taking action to determine who is responsible for this tragedy and how similar events can be avoided in the future.

• Wednesday, August 11th 2010 - 06:46 UTC

  Ecuador’s Correa blames former leader Uribe for the bilateral conflict

  

  Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa blamed former president Alvaro Uribe for wrecking trust between the two nations by ordering a military attack on Ecuador's soil (in 2008) without requesting authorization from Quito.

• Wednesday, August 11th 2010 - 06:43 UTC

  Timerman meets Hillary Clinton to elaborate bilateral and regional agenda

  

  Argentine Foreign Affairs Minister Héctor Timerman is travelling to Washington for a series of meetings with several of US President Barack Obama's advisors in relation to regional, economic and nuclear issues in Latin America.