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Politics

  • Thursday, May 15th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    Argentine media reacts to government attacks on Clarin

    The Argentine association of newspapers, Adepa, publicly expressed concern about attacks from “government and government related sectors” against the Argentine press in general and particularly against editors and journalists from Clarín.

  • Thursday, May 15th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    Peruvian President Garcia sets up environment ministry

    Peru has created its first environment ministry, on the eve of a joint Latin American and European Union summit expected to focus on climate change.

  • Thursday, May 15th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    Colonialism has no place in today's world, says UN

    Although decolonization has been one of the United Nations' great success stories, the fact that 16 non-self-governing Territories remains means that the task has yet to be completed, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said this week.

  • Thursday, May 15th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    Colombia-Ecuador conflict could filter EU-Latam summit

    Latin American and European leaders are gathering in Lima, Peru on Friday for a much publicized summit which is scheduled to address climate change, high food prices and poverty. However an issue not included in the agenda could break into the meeting: Colombia's raid on a rebel camp inside Ecuador last early March.

  • Thursday, May 15th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    US lists polar bears as threatened species, with a loophole

    The United States has listed the polar bear as a threatened species, because its Arctic sea ice habitat is melting due to climate change. US government scientists predict that two-thirds of the polar bear population of 25,000 could disappear by 2050. However, the government stressed the listing would not lead to measures to prevent global warming.

  • Thursday, May 15th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    Chavez after better US relations with Bush's successor

    Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez said he hopes relations with the United States will improve substantially when the “devil” and “Mr Danger” President George W. Bush leaves the Oval Office in January.

  • Thursday, May 15th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    Argentina rates 103 out of 190 countries in institutional quality

    Long obsessed with its image in the eyes of such international monitors as the United Nations Human Development Index or Transparency International, Argentina has had its own international Institutional Quality Index for the past two years.

  • Wednesday, May 14th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    Chavez attacks Spanish King and German Chancellor

     Chavez annoyed with Spanish King and German Chancellor

    With just a few hours before the Lima, Peru, Latinamerican/Caribbean European Union leaders' summit Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is picking up arguments with Spain's president and Germany's Chancellor.

  • Wednesday, May 14th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    Growing political support for Argentine farmers protest

    Argentine farmers continued with their round of political contacts visiting Congress in Buenos Aires while officials from the Kirchner administration said governors should not feel obliged to receive farmers' delegations and anticipated that “new beneficial alternatives” were under consideration by the government.

  • Wednesday, May 14th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    US George Washington and task force visit Valparaiso

    US aircraft carrier George Washington will anchor in Chile's Region V port city of Valparaiso tomorrow Wednesday. The air carrier is visiting Chile as part of the Partnership of the Americas POA, military training program.