Examples of loquacity, extensive traveling and nepotism are some of the records that the Miami based Spanish language daily Nuevo Herald has collected as a present extended to the controversial Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez on his 54th birthday, celebrated on Monday July 28th.
Soldiers and sailors have been temporarily contracted by Uruguayan county authorities to help with basic law and order because of a Police strike.
A special constituent assembly in Ecuador has overwhelmingly approved a draft of a new constitution sought by the country's President, Rafael Correa.
By a margin of two to one Argentine public opinion disapproves of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's performance, according to a survey from consultants MBC-Mori and released Sunday by Buenos Aires daily Perfil.
United States marines, as well as from Chile and Brazil were involved in an amphibious exercise with the Argentine Navy in Puerto Belgrano home port of the Argentine fleet. The exercise was described by the Argentine media as evidence of a growing military rapprochement between the two countries.
Argentina invited last week tenders for the provision of an ice breaker for the coming 2008/09 Antarctic season since flag carrier Almirante Irizar remains out of action following the severe fire which crippled the vessel last year. However the operation is limited to Argentine bidders.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez laughed and smiled his way through a hug-and-make-up visit to Spain yesterday, his first since a now-infamous exchange in which Spain's normally reserved monarch told the voluble Venezuelan leader to shut up at a summit in Chile last year.
President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner yesterday attended two ceremonies, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, with her husband, Justicialist (Peronist) Party Néstor Kirchner, where both of them received support from other officials amid the political crisis the government is going through following the setback they suffered at the Senate last week and the resignation of two top officials this week.
Critics have increased the pressure on British Prime Minister Gordon Brown after Labor's defeat in the Glasgow East by-election, but colleagues have leapt to his defense
Barack Obama, the US presidential candidate, has ended his overseas tour with a round of meetings in London, visiting Tony Blair, the former prime minister, before going on to talks with Gordon Brown.