Politics

Monday, June 16th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Peru admits talks for US air facilities in the highlands

The United States Army and the Peruvian Armed Forces Joint Command are in negotiations for the establishment of US air facilities in Peru, according to press reports from Lima.
Monday, June 16th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Falklands targets Australian organic certification scheme

THE Falkland Islands Development Corporation is to abandon its previous involvement with organic certification.
Monday, June 16th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Uruguayan president visiting Panama, Cuba and Mexico

Uruguay and Panama signed on Monday several cooperation agreements during the official visit of Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez to the Central American country, the first leg of a tour that will also take him to Cuba and Mexico.
Sunday, June 15th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina farm strike flares again after crackdown

A three-month standoff between Argentina's government and farmers over a tax hike turned violent on Saturday when military police in riot gear used batons to try to clear roadblocks on a main highway.
Sunday, June 15th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Paraguay's future cabinet blends continuity &renewal

Paraguay's president-elect Fernando Lugo whose historic election ended six decades of one-party rule in the country named a former leftist militant to head his Cabinet when he takes office on August 15.
Sunday, June 15th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Over 90 bulk grain carriers queuing in the River Plate

The Argentine farmers' conflict has the River Plate packed with grain bulk carriers waiting to load in Buenos Aires and Rosario (up the river Parana). An estimated 90 vessels are queuing with the tail reaching the access to the port of Montevideo, in neighboring Uruguay.
Sunday, June 15th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Chavez names new Finance minister ahead of by-election

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez named on Sunday Ali Rodriguez, a trusted ally who has also served as head of state oil company PDVSA, as Minister of Finance. Rodriguez is currently ambassador in Cuba and was once secretary general of OPED and has also held the post of Foreign Affairs minister.
Sunday, June 15th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Formal end to oil companies proxy Chaco War 1932/35

Argentina will hand Paraguay and Bolivia the Limits Act which contains the final territorial and fluvial borders which emerged from the Chaco War, fought 73 years ago between the two landlocked and poorest countries of the continent.
Sunday, June 15th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Irish-vote shocked Europe meets to decide what next

European Union foreign affairs ministers are gathering in Luxembourg for talks on how to respond to the Irish rejection of the Lisbon reform treaty. Voters in the Irish Republic, the only state to hold a referendum on Lisbon, rejected the treaty by 53.4% to 46.6% last Thursday.
Saturday, June 14th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina short of fuel and food and long w/e at home

Argentina's food and fuel shortages worsened on Friday as groups of truckers continue to block highways in spite of the government announcement that the stoppage was over following talks with one of several protesting groups.