Politics

Saturday, August 15th 2009 - 11:17 UTC
Colombia completes military deal with US and invites Brazil to join

Colombia would like to increase its military ties with Brazil and other South American countries, President Alvaro Uribe said on Friday after the Foreign Affairs ministry announced it had completed talks with Washington on allowing US troops to use seven Colombian military bases.
Saturday, August 15th 2009 - 11:13 UTC
Colombian church confirms talks with FARC rebel leaders

Colombian Cardinal Dario Castrillon confirmed this week that he has talked with the leader of Colombia’s largest rebel group as part of the church’s hierarchy’s effort to mediate an end to the decades-long civil war.
Saturday, August 15th 2009 - 11:07 UTC
Mexico/Uruguay sign strategic association accord and advance trade

Mexico president Felipe Calderón and Uruguay’s Tabare Vazquez signed on Friday in Montevideo a Strategic Association accord to strengthen political dialogue and bilateral trade relations in the framework of the 2004 free trade agreement.
Friday, August 14th 2009 - 14:09 UTC
Paraguayan government withdraws bill for Venezuela’s Mercosur incorporation

Paraguay's government withdrew a bill that would approve the incorporation of Venezuela to the Mercosur trade bloc fearing a defeat in Congress that could hurt relations between the two countries.
Friday, August 14th 2009 - 13:47 UTC
Zelaya calls for more US drastic measures against Honduras usurpers

Ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya said he expects the US administration to take more drastic actions against the de facto government of Roberto Micheletti. Zelaya held a three and a half hour meeting on Thursday with Chilean president Michelle Bachelet in Santiago as part of his round of visits to drum support for his reinstatement.
Friday, August 14th 2009 - 09:51 UTC
Falkland Islands: Weekly Penguin News Update

Headlines: Boost for Camp ranks on new RDS advisory group; TV blackout to continue
Friday, August 14th 2009 - 07:43 UTC
Mexico offers to mediate between Colombia and Venezuela and Ecuador

Mexican president Felipe Calderón on an official visit to Colombia offered his country’s mediation in the conflict between Bogotá and neighbouring Ecuador and Venezuela.
Friday, August 14th 2009 - 05:13 UTC
Chilean conservative presidential hopeful leads comfortably in latest opinion poll

Chilean Conservative businessman Sebastián Piñera continues to enjoy a lead going into the country’s December 11 presidential election, according to a poll by the Center for Studies in Contemporary Reality (CERC).
Friday, August 14th 2009 - 04:59 UTC
Kirchner confirms decision to “democratize” access to soccer games

Former Argentine president Néstor Kirchner, deputy elect for the government's Victory Front and husband of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, said he believed “all Argentine's should have free access to soccer games,” and denied reports suggesting he had met with the head of the AFA Argentine Football Association, Julio Grondona.
Friday, August 14th 2009 - 04:51 UTC
The 48th anniversary of the Berlin Wall

This week the German capital remembered a very different summer morning in 1961. On August 13 that year, the first barricades between the eastern and western halves of the city went up. Those barricades would eventually come to be known as the Berlin Wall, reports Germany’s Der Spiegel in its English on line version.