Politics

Monday, January 22nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Possible mustard gas poisoning of former Chilean president

Former Chilean president Eduardo Frei Montalvo who died in 1982 could have been poisoned with mustard gas, according to a report from the Belgian University of Gant which is currently in the hands of the Chilean judge who has the case.
Monday, January 22nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Taiana meets Ban Ki-Moon to insist on Falklands talks

Argentina's Foreign Affaire minister Jorge Taiana is scheduled to meet Monday with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon when he will reiterate Argentina's “firm interest” in advancing a solution to the Falklands/Malvinas dispute with Great Britain.
Monday, January 22nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Royal member and minister to visit Falklands next June

Britain's Ministry of Defence and the Foreign Office confirmed that the Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram and a member of the Royal Family will be visiting the Falkland Islands next June as part of the 25th commemoration of the South Atlantic conflict and thus rebutting an article from The Observer.
Monday, January 22nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Princess Anne to meet Chilean President Bachelet in Viña

Princess Anne arrived in Punta Arenas, extreme south Chile Monday at 13:30 hours aboard a British Antarctic Survey (BAS) aircraft, the first leg of a three days visit which includes a meeting with President Michelle Bachelet Tuesday evening.
Monday, January 22nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Pulp mills dispute: Uruguay expects favorable ruling

The Uruguayan government is confident of a positive ruling from the International Court of The Hague calling for an end to blockades by Argentine environmentalists protesting against the construction of a pulp mill on the Uruguayan side of a shared river that acts as a natural border between the neighboring countries.
Monday, January 22nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Pickets will only abide to relocation of controversial pulp mill

The environmental assembly from Gualeguaychu whose pickets are blocking access to an international bridge leading to Uruguay in protest over the building of an allegedly highly contaminating pulp mill, have anticipated that they will no lift the pickets if an international court ruling favors Uruguay.
Monday, January 22nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Taiana: good rapport with Ki-Moon on Malvinas issue

Argentina formally called on United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon good offices with the purpose of resuming talks with the United Kingdom to help find a peaceful solution to the Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute.
Sunday, January 21st 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Hillary Clinton joins White House race

Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton launched a trailblazing campaign for the White House on Saturday, a former first lady turned political powerhouse intent on becoming the first female president. “I'm in, and I'm in to win,” she said.
Sunday, January 21st 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Princess Anne arrives in Chile, “a reliable UK partner”

Great Britain's Princess Anne makes her much-heralded arrival to Chile Monday January 22 and as the country prepares to offer its eminent guest the proverbial royal treatment, no single person shoulders quite as much of that responsibility as the United Kingdom's number-one representative in Chile: British Ambassador Howard Drake.
Saturday, January 20th 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Mercosur: no mincing words

Paraguay, the new temporary president of the Mercosur trade bloc, yesterday urged Argentina and Uruguay to solve their dispute about a pulp mill that has taken them to the World Court, on the last day of a two-day Mercosur summit in Rio de Janeiro marked by harsh squabbles between Venezuela and Bolivia on one hand and Colombia and Brazil on the other.