Politics

• Friday, June 27th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Ottawa unhappy with request to delay Falklands mine clearance

  

  SIGNATORIES of the Ottawa Convention are unhappy with the British Government's request for an extension of the deadline for the UK to meet its obligation to clear anti-personnel mines in the Falklands.

• Thursday, June 26th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Bolivian bitter political dispute on collision course

  Bolivian president Evo Morales accused opposition governors on Wednesday of conspiring against his government and insisted he would not yield to conservative pressures to impede him from his plans for the “re-foundation” of the country, one of the poorest of the continent.

• Thursday, June 26th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Farmers' conflict: Kirchner group delay tactics in Congress

  

  For third consecutive day the Argentine Lower House Agriculture and Budget committee continued to consider the sliding tax on grain and oilseed exports which triggered a 103 day conflict between farmers and the Kirchner administration.

• Wednesday, June 25th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Paraguay's Senate blocks president's early exit

  

  Paraguay's Senate failed to muster a quorum Tuesday, thereby frustrating President Nicanor Duarte Frutos's bid to resign two months before the end of his term to join that same legislative body.

• Wednesday, June 25th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Chile prepared to cut Armed Forces copper earnings share

  José Pablo Arellano, CEO of Chile's state-owned CODELCO copper company, this week questioned the utility of a Pinochet-era law that gives 10% of CODELCO sales to the Chilean military.

• Wednesday, June 25th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Ecuador Colombia relations back in the cold and trade threats

  Ecuador will not resume diplomatic ties with Colombia after the latter decided to postpone renewal of relations, Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Maria Isabel Salvador announced this week in Quito.

• Wednesday, June 25th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Global food crisis, key issue in agenda of coming G8 summit

  United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that he will focus his attention on raising the issue of food security at the G8 summit of major industrialized nations in Japan early next month, as well as the challenges of climate change and the anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

• Wednesday, June 25th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Chavez arms shopping in Russia to defend “revolution”

  

  President Hugo Chavez said that Venezuela will continue to strengthen its military power following the announcement that vice president Ramon Carrizalez and Defence minister General Gustavo Rangel Briceño would be traveling to Russia to intensify military cooperation.

• Tuesday, June 24th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine farmers' conflict leads to a “dialogue season”

  “Positive” and “important” were the words used to describe the Monday afternoon hour and a half meeting between Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and farmers in Government House following a stand off of over 100 days.

• Tuesday, June 24th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay proposes full integration or Mexico to Mercosur

  Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez said that Mexico must integrate with Mercosur and Unasur (Union of South American nations) because otherwise the concept of unity, which these two organizations represent would be “incomplete and insufficient”.