Politics

Wednesday, March 31st 2010 - 04:01 UTC
Two more Cuban dissidents on hunger strike; EU-Havana talks postponed

Two dissidents, one of them behind bars, have joined Guillermo Fariñas in a hunger strike, the unofficial Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation said Tuesday.
Wednesday, March 31st 2010 - 02:30 UTC
Mercosur is Uruguay’s main market for value-added exports, says Mujica

Uruguayan president Jose “Pepe” Mujica admitted Mercosur has its problems but it is also the market for Uruguayan exports with most added value: “to the rest of the world we sell mostly commodities, to Mercosur Uruguayan input”.
Wednesday, March 31st 2010 - 02:25 UTC
Argentina begins next week to pay debts with Central Bank reserves

Following an Argentine federal court ruling approving the use of Central Bank reserves for the payment of foreign debt the administration of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will begin transactions next week using the liberated funds.
Wednesday, March 31st 2010 - 02:15 UTC
Bolivia denies modernizing the Army “to provoke” neighbouring Paraguay

Bolivian president Evo Morales strongly denied Tuesday that furnishing new equipment to the Armed Forces was directed to provoke neighbouring Paraguay and accused his opponents to take advantage of the situation to confront the two countries.
Wednesday, March 31st 2010 - 02:08 UTC
US criticizes Canada over its Arctic policy

Hillary Clinton has criticised Canada for failing to invite indigenous groups and Scandinavian countries to talks on the future of the Arctic.
Tuesday, March 30th 2010 - 22:48 UTC
Senator McCain calls for troops to be deployed along Mexican border

The influential US Senator John McCain from Arizona sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano calling for the deployment of National Guard troops along the “southern border region” between the US and Mexico to help counter the growing violence from the drug cartels.
Tuesday, March 30th 2010 - 22:42 UTC
Mrs. Kirchner vows to lead “profound, cultural, diplomatic battle” to regain Malvinas

Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner at the opening Tuesday of a photographic exhibition honouring the Malvinas women vowed before to lead “a profound, cultural, diplomatic and political battle on every front,” and to make use of “every resource made available by international law to regain the Malvinas Islands sovereignty.”
Tuesday, March 30th 2010 - 04:46 UTC
Argentine dockworkers strike expands; 5.000 trucks waiting to unload

Argentine dockworkers expanded the strike to eight terminals, mainly in the Greater Rosario port area, the heart of the country’s soy bean belt, demanding higher pay and improved working conditions. The conflict comes when Argentina, the world’s third exporter of the oil seed prepares to ship the latest crop.
Tuesday, March 30th 2010 - 04:44 UTC
Bolivia’s Morales expects to consolidate provincial power in Sunday’s election

Bolivia is in the last leg ahead of next Sunday’s governor election when president Evo Morales expects his party to keep control over seven of the nine provinces in dispute while the opposition will try to gain lost ground in recent votes.
Tuesday, March 30th 2010 - 04:39 UTC
Ideologue of “Chavez revolution” abandons “petty Bolivarian bourgeois” party

Venezuelan retired General Alberto Müller Rojas considered one of the ideologists of President Hugo Chavez “revolution” announced he was retiring from politics because the current Venezuelan “revolutionary process” is in a dreadful state.