Politics

• Thursday, September 11th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Protests in Bolivia cuts gas exports; US ambassador expelled

  

  President Evo Morales said Wednesday that he is expelling the U.S. ambassador in Bolivia for allegedly inciting violent opposition protests. Morales' announcement came hours after a pipeline blast triggered by saboteurs forced the country to cut natural gas exports to Brazil by 10%.

• Thursday, September 11th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Chavez and Kirchner linked to cash scandal cover up operation

  

  On the second day of the Miami federal trial involving an international cash scandal and attempts to conceal the origin of the money, jurors were able to listen to recordings which establish the close links between the presidents of Argentina and Venezuela and attempts to cover up the mishap.

• Thursday, September 11th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  United State marks seventh 9/11 anniversary

  

  Memorial services are set to be held to mark the seventh anniversary of the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US.

• Thursday, September 11th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Kissinger efforts to prevent Allende taking office in 1970

  

  On the eve of the thirty-fifth anniversary of the military coup in Chile, (September 11, 1973) the National Security Archive based in Washington published for the first time formerly secret transcripts of Henry Kissinger's telephone conversations that set in motion a massive US effort to overthrow the newly-elected socialist government of Salvador Allende.

• Thursday, September 11th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Gibraltar celebrates National Day and self determination

  

  ”Gibraltar (*) is now a modern, economically and socially prosperous community and we are politically advanced, mature and self assured. We no longer need to claim our right to self determination. We have it” said Gibraltar's Chief Minister Peter Caruana in his advance of the September 11 National Day message.

• Thursday, September 11th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Killings and havoc further disrupt the Bolivian situation

  

  At least nine people were killed as violent anti-government protests mounted in Bolivia on Thursday, creating havoc in its natural gas industry and increasing tensions with the United States.

• Thursday, September 11th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Betancourt back in the hit list of FARC terrorist group

  

  Former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages rescued from the Colombian group FARC last July have again been declared “military targets” by the guerrilla group, claimed Ms Betancourt in New York.

• Wednesday, September 10th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Cristina Kirchner and Chavez named in Miami trial

  

  The names of Argentina and Venezuela presidents Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and Hugo Chavez openly emerged in the first hearings of a trial in Miami involving an international cash scandal last year, followed by illegal foreign agents threatening to silence the alleged couriers in United States.

• Wednesday, September 10th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina identifies remains of downed pilot in Falklands

  

  The Argentine pilot remains returned from the Falkland Islands last August correspond to Air Force navigator Captain Fernando Casado, who was shot down during possibly the last air incursion before the end of the conflict in June 1982, according to primary reports published Wednesday in Buenos Aires daily Clarin.

• Wednesday, September 10th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Russian bombers land in Venezuela for exercise

  

  Two Russian strategic bombers landed in Venezuela on Wednesday as part of military exercises, an unprecedented deployment to the territory of a new ally at a time of increasingly tense relations with United States