Politics

• Wednesday, March 10th 2010 - 22:55 UTC

  Implications of La Moneda Leadership in the Piñera Era and is the White House Prepared for a Vastly Changed Latin America

  

  The interim between Chile’s January 17th election and the inauguration of its victor, Sebastian Piñera, on March 11th, provides a useful opportunity to reflect on the course of recent U.S.-Chile relations, and the future prospects for cooperation, given the stand-pat tendencies of both governments.

• Wednesday, March 10th 2010 - 22:46 UTC

  Europe drafts condemnation of Castro brothers regime human rights policy

  

  Cuban dissident on hunger strike to protest against the detention of 26 ailing political prisoners has said he is “ready to die,” a Mexican newspaper has reported. “I am aware that I am in the last days of my life,” Guillermo Fariñas told the Reforma newspaper.

• Wednesday, March 10th 2010 - 19:30 UTC

  Spanish opposition willing to accept advances in Spain/Gibraltar relations

  

  The Mayor of the Spanish town of La Linea, Alejandro Sanchez has declared that relations with Gibraltar and “attaining the maximum level of cross-border understanding and cooperation” should be pursued by an incoming PP (Partido Popular) (conservative) Government in Madrid.

• Wednesday, March 10th 2010 - 19:05 UTC

  Falklands expose Argentine aggressiveness in the British press

  

  The point of view of Falkland Islanders has been included in two leading newspapers in the UK this week, ensuring that British public opinion is aware of Islanders’ position.

• Wednesday, March 10th 2010 - 06:33 UTC

  Mrs Kirchner escalates clash with Judiciary, implies censorship from the Court

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner escalated Tuesday the clash with the Judiciary branch saying that when the magistrates call for “moderation”, the expression seems to rhyme with “censorship” since they don’t realize “the weight they hold”.

• Wednesday, March 10th 2010 - 06:31 UTC

  Hung parliament, likeliest outcome of UK election indicate opinion polls

  

  No political party has enough support to win outright control of parliament in Britain's forthcoming election, raising the prospect of a period of unstable minority government, opinion polls showed.

• Wednesday, March 10th 2010 - 06:28 UTC

  Pro-Kirchner picket leader meets in Iran with fugitive from Argentine law

  

  Argentine pro-government picket leader Luis D'Elía, justified his trip to Iran and his meeting with Mohsen Rabbani, a former Iranian official who is considered to be one of the masterminds in the 1994 deadly terrorist attack of the Buenos Aires AMIA Jewish centre and remains fugitive from the Argentine law.

• Wednesday, March 10th 2010 - 00:42 UTC

  Germany wants “Graf Spee” Nazi eagle displayed in a museum

  

  German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle called Tuesday for wreckage from a Nazi-era warship recovered off the coast of Uruguay to be displayed in a museum rather than auctioned to the public.

• Wednesday, March 10th 2010 - 00:39 UTC

  Brazilian former political prisoners call for creation of Truth Commission

  

  A group of former radical militants that were viciously tortured during the Brazilian military regime (1964/1985) supported the creation of a Truth Commission to unveil human rights violations, during a ceremony at the Ministry of Justice in Brasilia.

• Tuesday, March 9th 2010 - 23:24 UTC

  Bachelet retained her position as “the most loved leader” by Chileans

  

  A public opinion poll with the purpose of gauging support for Chilean President Michelle Bachelet in the last days of her government, after the devastating earthquake, showed that her standing remains intact at 84%, like in February.