Politics

• Monday, March 29th 2010 - 04:31 UTC

  Bicentennial Regatta largest display of naval tall ships in Punta Arenas

  

  The Bicentennial Regatta arrived over the weekend to Punta Arenas, extreme south of Chile after having crossed the Strait of Magellan.

• Monday, March 29th 2010 - 04:16 UTC

  Mujica meets Lula da Silva to consider bilateral and regional integration

  

  Increasing trade, bilateral and regional integration dominate Monday’s agenda for the meeting in Brasilia between President Lula da Silva and Uruguayan leader Jose Mujica.

• Monday, March 29th 2010 - 00:31 UTC

  Argentine opposition blasts Nestor Kirchner’s Unasur candidacy

  

  One of the leaders of the Argentine opposition warned that it would be “tragedy for the Americas” if the ex President Néstor Kirchner is designated as General Secretary of the South American Nations Union (Unasur).

• Monday, March 29th 2010 - 00:29 UTC

  Brazilian opposition presidential hopeful leads in polls by nine points

  

  Sao Paulo state governor Jose Serra, the main opposition candidate in Brazil’s presidential election next October widened his lead over the ruling party contender as his popularity grew among poor voters and women, pollster Datafolha said Saturday.

• Monday, March 29th 2010 - 00:21 UTC

  UK participates in Chile’s FIDAE with cutting edge technology in defence

  

  United Kingdom companies involved in some of the most cutting edge technology in the defence and security sectors are currently in Santiago for the Air and space air exhibition, FIDAE.

• Sunday, March 28th 2010 - 21:46 UTC

  First gay marriage in Westminster: groom was Foreign Office minister Chris Bryant

  

  The Palace of Westminster, which houses the British Parliament, was on Saturday the venue of an unprecedented event: its first gay wedding.

• Saturday, March 27th 2010 - 06:42 UTC

  Lula da Silva again fined for breach of electoral legislation

  

  Brazil’s Superior Electoral tribunal, TSE, again fined President Lula da Silva for having campaigned in support of cabinet chief and the Workers’ Party candidate for October’s presidential election, Dilma Rousseff.

• Saturday, March 27th 2010 - 06:16 UTC

  Catholic Church is not above the law

  The Biblical formula “Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's” is generally taken to mean that people should recognize the authority of the state in secular matters, but that is not necessarily what Jesus meant by it. It is certainly not the current practice of the Roman Catholic Church, although the rule in modern democracies is very clear: The law applies equally to everyone, even priests.

• Saturday, March 27th 2010 - 06:04 UTC

  Web 2.0 versus Control 2.0

  

  The fight for free access to information is being played out to an ever greater extent on the Internet. The emerging general trend is that a growing number of countries are attempting to tighten their control of the Net, but at the same time, increasingly inventive netizens demonstrate mutual solidarity by mobilizing when necessary.

• Saturday, March 27th 2010 - 03:25 UTC

  Spanish minister defends Gibraltar friendly-approach policy before Congress

  

  Spain is defending its interests in relation to Gibraltar “firmly and efficiently” Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos declared in a special session of Congress in Madrid. But he also underlined Spain’s commitment for police and judicial co-operation to stamp out crime in the area.