Politics

• Monday, April 12th 2010 - 23:04 UTC

  Mercosur and EU trade negotiators must “deliver” before May summit

  

  Mercosur is waiting for “dialogue contributions” from the European Union to decide on negotiations for a political and commercial agreement with the EU. Brussels is expected to make its move at the end of April on time for a formal launching in May of the decade-long delayed but very much needed block to block talks.

• Monday, April 12th 2010 - 05:20 UTC

  Chilean Army de-mining fields bordering the Magellan Strait

  

  Chile’s Army demining team announced last week the clearance of 5.799 mines in the north of Tierra del Fuego next to the so called Primera Angostura (First Narrow) of the Magellan Strait.

• Monday, April 12th 2010 - 05:18 UTC

  Living myth Fidel Castro, “a man with a superior intellect by heartless”

  

  Dissident Cuban neurosurgeon Hilda Molina, now living in Argentina, said in an interview that Fidel Castro once felt “a very marked inclination” towards her.

• Monday, April 12th 2010 - 05:13 UTC

  Kissinger accused of turning blind eye to Latam military regimes political killings

  

  Henry Kissinger while United States Secretary of State, halted a plan to warn South American military regimes against international political assassinations such as those involving the 1976 death in Washington of former Chilean minister Orlando Letelier, a document shows.

• Monday, April 12th 2010 - 05:09 UTC

  Hollywood stars support natural park conservation project in Ecuador

  

  Hollywood stars Leonardo Di Caprio and Glenn Close are willing to support an environment-conservation project in Ecuador that would prevent the extraction of 850 million barrels of oil from the Amazon.

• Monday, April 12th 2010 - 05:05 UTC

  Serra proclaimed opposition candidate saying that “Brazil can do better”

  

  A coalition of Brazilian opposition parties officially endorsed economist Jose Serra last Saturday as its candidate in October’s presidential elections under the slogan “Brazil can do better”.

• Monday, April 12th 2010 - 05:03 UTC

  Patagonia indigenous had highly organized, dynamic and hierarchical society

  

  Argentine and Spanish researchers have shown that indigenous societies in Patagonia, the southernmost region of the Earth inhabited by humans over the past 13,000 years, were not static and marginal as had always been thought, but in fact had high levels of social organisation.

• Saturday, April 10th 2010 - 04:44 UTC

  Argentina announces debt-swap and invites US corporations to invest

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, CFK, speaking before the United States Chamber of Commerce confirmed that the debt-swap is to be launched between Wednesday and Thursday of next week and strongly praised Argentina’s conditions “for making business and investing”.

• Saturday, April 10th 2010 - 04:40 UTC

  Default “not an issue” for Greece, says ECB’s Trichet, but are markets convinced

  

  Greek bonds and banking stocks took a massive hit on Thursday, driving the debt-stricken Euro zone member's borrowing costs to the highest level since Greece adopted the Euro currency.

• Saturday, April 10th 2010 - 03:05 UTC

  First lesbian marriage in Argentina: both are 67 and couple for 30 years

  

  Two women that were exiled during the last Argentine military dictatorship (1976/1983) got married Friday in Buenos Aires, the first wedding among lesbians in the country, reported the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Federation of Argentina, or FALGBT.