Politics

• Monday, February 16th 2009 - 20:00 UTC

  Venezuela's Chavez wins unlimited re-election vote

  

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has won the Sunday referendum to eliminate term limits, paving the way for a new re-election in 2012 - and beyond - and push through his vision of a Socialist nation

• Monday, February 16th 2009 - 20:00 UTC

  Chilean opposition presidential candidate ahead in polls

  

  The Chilean Concertación ruling coalition official presidential candidate Eduardo Frei would stand eight points behind conservative presidential hopeful Sebastián Piñera in the event of a run off next January, (following December's first round) according to TNS-Time public opinion poll taken between January 12 and 31st.

• Monday, February 16th 2009 - 20:00 UTC

  Bolivarian leader Chavez day-after financial challenges

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's overwhelming victory in Sunday's referendum which enables him to run again in 2012, and successively to ensure the mounting of the Bolivarian Socialist revolution, is bound to experience the day-after hang over given the country's economy dependence on oil.

• Monday, February 16th 2009 - 20:00 UTC

  UK-Argentina relation “quite good” but for the Falklands

  

  Relations between Britain and Argentina are “quite good” with the sole exception of the issue that is always on the table, the Falkland Islands, said Lord Mark Malloch-Brown who last week visited Buenos Aires for a few hours to coordinate the coming G-20 summit to be held in London, early April, hosted by PM Gordon Brown.

• Sunday, February 15th 2009 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentine torture centre turned into human rights bastion

  

  The grounds of the largest clandestine detention and torture centre in Buenos Aires during Argentina's “dirty war” crackdown on dissent are now a United Nations human rights centre.

• Saturday, February 14th 2009 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentina trying to arrange Obama-CFK meeting

  Argentine diplomacy is looking forward to arrange a meeting between US President Barack Obama and Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, CFK, and there are “good open chances” for such an event according to Deputy Foreign Affairs minister Victorio Tachcetti who next week begins a round of talks in Washington.

• Saturday, February 14th 2009 - 20:00 UTC

  Brazilian family “shocked” with UK prosecutors' attitude

  

  The family of Brazilian citizen Jean Charles de Menezes dropped their legal battle for justice after British prosecutors refused to bring charges over his death. They said almost four years of relentless campaigning brought them little closer to holding any individual to account for the innocent Brazilian's death.

• Saturday, February 14th 2009 - 20:00 UTC

  Venezuela: incident with Spain before crucial referendum

  Spain said on Saturday it was preparing an official complaint against Venezuela's decision to deport a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for criticising the Venezuelan electoral commission.

• Saturday, February 14th 2009 - 20:00 UTC

  Chile annoyed with Fidel's “meddling” reflections

  Chilean President Michelle Bachelet said on Saturday she was annoyed at “meddling” comments by former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who wrote in an article that Chile snatched Bolivia's only sea access in the 19th century.

• Friday, February 13th 2009 - 20:00 UTC

  Venezuela readies to vote controversial indefinite re-election

  Venezuelan armed forces started on Friday moving to polling stations in Caracas to guarantee security during the upcoming Sunday referendum that would abolish term limits of elected leaders and could allow President Hugo Chavez to seek re-election indefinitely.