Politics

• Tuesday, May 6th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Regional efforts to solve Bolivia's political impasse

  

  The Organization of American States Secretary General, OAS, Jose Miguel Insulza praised on Monday the Bolivian promoters of the Santa Cruz autonomy referendum for having expressed no secessionists or contrary to law intentions.

• Tuesday, May 6th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina supports South American Defence Council

  In spite of growing military relations with Washington, Argentina is working closely in South American defense and integration affairs with Brazil with the purpose of “consolidating a regional military line of thinking” in the framework of Mercosur.

• Monday, May 5th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  MPs support joint effort to improve Falklands' airbridge

  

  Members of Parliament on the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee have recognised the importance of the airbridge between the UK and the Falklands.

• Monday, May 5th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  US nuke carrier in S. Atlantic exercises with Argentine Navy

  

  The huge nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington has reached Argentine waters ready to begin annual naval exercises with its Argentine counterpart in the South Atlantic

• Monday, May 5th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  “A massive violation of the right to adequate food”

  

  The Human Rights Council should convene to discuss the current global food crisis because it is important to view the problem of soaring prices as “a massive violation of the right to adequate food,” a United Nations expert on the subject said this week.

• Monday, May 5th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  “Re-Argentinization” of Aerolíneas agreed with Spanish group

  

  The Argentine government and local investors will recover almost 65% control of Aerolineas Argentinas currently belonging to the Spanish tourism group Marsans, according to a brief announcement from the company's spokesperson.

• Sunday, May 4th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Dire forecast on Kirchners' Argentina from The Economist

  

  The Economist first May print edition published an interesting article on the rapidly deteriorating political and economic situation of Argentina under President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's. The article is titled “Cristina in the land of make-believe” and the influential magazine states that “dashing hopes of change, Argentina's new president is leading her country into economic peril and social conflict”.

• Sunday, May 4th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina: majority disapprove Kirchners and the opposition

  

  Six out of ten Argentines disapprove the way President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is running government and eight out of ten are disenchanted with the way she's addressing sensitive issues such as corruption and handling of the economy, according to the latest survey from Management & Fit released this Sunday.

• Sunday, May 4th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Morales says “referendum failed” but calls for dialogue

  

  The richest region of Bolivia, Santa Cruz voted overwhelmingly for autonomy on Sunday in a vote widely seen as a rejection of President Evo Morales' radical reforms. However President Morales said the referendum “had failed categorically” because less than 50% had voted and called all governors to build a “true autonomy”.

• Saturday, May 3rd 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  UK protest vote dumps Labor and Tories take London

  

  British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is under pressure from his party to restore his credibility after delivering Labour's worst election results in at least 40 years. In his first electoral test as PM, Mr Brown lost nine councils and 333 seats and saw Labour's Ken Livingstone edged out of power in London after eight years.