Politics

• Friday, April 16th 2010 - 01:46 UTC

  Argentine Judge annuls first gay union, but Congress set to vote same-sex marriage bill

  

  A judge in Argentina has annulled the first gay marriage in Latin America, state media said Thursday, but the two men in the groundbreaking union said they would appeal the decision.

• Thursday, April 15th 2010 - 19:35 UTC

  More changes anticipated in Ecuador’s cabinet and military commands

  

  Ecuador president Rafael Correa announced changes in the military command and further cabinet reshuffling as part of the restructuring of his administration’s team for the next three years.

• Thursday, April 15th 2010 - 19:31 UTC

  Spanish dictator atrocities case presented before Argentine federal court

  

  Argentine human rights groups turned the tables on Spain Wednesday, asking for a local judicial probe of killings and disappearances as well as suspected genocide during the Spanish Civil War and Gen. Francisco Franco's long dictatorship.

• Thursday, April 15th 2010 - 19:22 UTC

  Uruguay’s support for Unasur’s chairman will be known at next summit

  

  Ecuadorean Foreign Affairs minister Ricardo Patiño apologized to Uruguay for having stated that the administration of President Jose Mujica would support the nomination of former Argentine president Nestor Kirchner as chairman or the Union of South American nations, Unasur.

• Thursday, April 15th 2010 - 17:08 UTC

  Paraguay retains Taiwan diplomatic links and opens trade office with Beijing

  

  Mercosur member Paraguay is reconsidering the terms of its relation with Taiwan, “retaining diplomatic links” but at the same time establishing “formal economic relations with Beijing”, said the country’s Foreign Affairs minister Héctor Lacognata.

• Thursday, April 15th 2010 - 05:53 UTC

  Argentina to resume nuclear program in cooperation with Russia

  

  Russian President Dimitri Medvedev met with President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to commemorate 125 years of bilateral relations between Argentina and Russia and to sign several cooperation agreements in different fields including helping Argentina to develop its nuclear program.

• Thursday, April 15th 2010 - 05:50 UTC

  China’s Sinopec expected to invest in Brazilian offshore oil blocks

  

  China's Sinopec will buy stakes in two Brazilian offshore blocks from state-run Petrobras, local media reported Wednesday, as part of a cooperation agreement to be signed during a visit by China's president to Brazil.

• Thursday, April 15th 2010 - 05:45 UTC

  Kirchner victory as Senate ratifies nomination of Central Bank governor

  

  The Argentine Senate finally approved the nomination of economist Mercedes Marcó del Pont as president of the Central Bank, post for which she was named by President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner last February.

• Thursday, April 15th 2010 - 05:39 UTC

  BRIC leaders arrive in Brazil for two-day summit in anticipation of G20

  

  Leaders from the world's four biggest emerging economies --Brazil, Russia, India and China, arrived in Brasilia Wednesday for a two-day summit. It's the second summit of the so-called BRIC countries.

• Wednesday, April 14th 2010 - 22:53 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner personally apologizes to Hu Jintao for cancelled visit to China

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner apologized to her peer, China’s Hu Jintao for having cancelled in January at last moment a long time planned official visit to Beijing. Mrs. Kirchner and President Hu Jintao met in the sidelines of this week’s nuclear security summit in Washington.