Politics

• 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.

• Thursday, August 13th 2009 - 14:29 UTC

  Zelaya and Lula da Silva call on Obama to solve Honduras political crisis

  

  Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and Brazilian President Lula da Silva called on Wednesday on the United States to use more political influence to help solve the Honduran crisis.

• Thursday, August 13th 2009 - 08:37 UTC

  Argentine exodus since 2001 has reached 800.000 or 2.1% of total population

  

  Over 800.000 Argentines left the country following the 2001 economic debacle, according to the latest report from the International Organization for Migration, which in the last decade represents 2.1% of total population.

• Wednesday, August 12th 2009 - 12:19 UTC

  Chavez and Cristina sign a billion USD trade agreement

  

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez received on Tuesday Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner in Caracas to sign agreements expanding trade between the two countries. Among the deals was an accord to import as many as 10,000 cars from Argentina this year instead of Colombia.

• Wednesday, August 12th 2009 - 12:10 UTC

  “Discrimination-free” and when possible “free-of-charge” soccer in Argentina

  

  The Argentine Football Federation Executive Committee agreed Tuesday to end the contract that for two decades had united AFA with television company Televisión Satelital Codificada, owner of the television rights for Argentina’s soccer.

• Wednesday, August 12th 2009 - 11:53 UTC

  Cuba remains as the country “with the worst human rights record”

  

  Cuba remains as the country with the worst human rights record in the western hemisphere and nothing has changed since President Raul Castro took over from his brother Fidel, according to the latest report from the dissident Cuban Commission of Human Rights CCDHRN).