Politics

• 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.

• Friday, August 14th 2009 - 02:52 UTC

  The Mercosur dream has “over ambitious targets and little pragmatism”

  

  In the sixties we had a “very strong dream about the idea of Mercosur” but it is “frustrating to see how little has been advanced in fifty years” said economist Enrique Iglesias during a conference in Montevideo on the impacts and challenges of the current international economic crisis.

• Thursday, August 13th 2009 - 14:36 UTC

  Uribe will be present at Unasur summit in Bariloche

  

  The Unasur (Union of South American Nations) extraordinary summit to address the US forces in Colombian bases controversy, and which was agreed in Ecuador, will take place in Bariloche at the end of the month announced the Argentine presidency.