Politics

Tuesday, April 22nd 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina indicts Uruguayan expatriate for the grass fires

A Uruguayan farm handy man, Sergio Amable Salvador Vera, 62, became the first person to be indicted this week for starting the grassland fires that produced the recent blanketing with smoke of Argentina's capital Buenos Aires city.
Monday, April 21st 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Peru to ask 3 more years to complete mine clearance

Peru will request before the Ottawa Convention an extension, until 2012, for the clearance of antipersonnel mines from its territory given the impossibility to comply with the current deadline of 2009, announced Peruvian Deputy Foreign Affairs minister Gonzalo Gutierrez.
Monday, April 21st 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Frustrated Argentine farmers ready to resume conflict May 2

In a massive Sunday rally the Argentine farmers ratified their willingness to continue the round of talks with government, --in spite of some attitudes and unilateral decisions--, but also warned that time is running out and the agreed deadline is May 2.
Monday, April 21st 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Food prices challenge Peru's economy and president's approval

Peruvian president Alan Garcia's approval rating fell to 26% (28% in March) despite the strong performance of Peru's economy, the fastest growing in South America, according to an Ipsos Apoyo survey published in Lima's main newspaper El Comercio.
Monday, April 21st 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Islanders have proved the best aircraft for the Falkland Islands

THE Falkland Islands Government Air Service General Manager Sean Minto says that air frame replacement has not been included in the current internal review - “We can't get aircraft that operate better or cheaper.”
Monday, April 21st 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Warnings about Brazil's high interest rates policy

Sao Paulo governor Jose Serra and one of Brazilian leaders tipped to dispute the presidency in 2010 warned about the possibility of an economic downturn when President Lula da Silva concludes his second mandate.
Monday, April 21st 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Morales: “eliminate capitalism” to save planet and mankind

Bolivian President Evo Morales has called for an end to capitalism as part of a series of radical measures “to save the planet and mankind”.
Monday, April 21st 2008 - 21:00 UTC
UN Continental shelf committee received Mexican submission

The United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf dealt with the submission presented by Mexico, the ninth it has received so far. This was the twenty first session of the Commission and was held at UN headquarters from 17 March to 18 April.
Monday, April 21st 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Lula da Silva blames farm subsidies and oil for food crisis

Brazilian president Lula da Silva, currently visiting Ghana, blamed rising oil prices for the current global food crisis, saying that bio-fuels had nothing to do with the problem, as some have suggested. He insisted escalating oil prices are pushing up freight costs, which in turn affects world food prices.
Sunday, April 20th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Paraguay cracks six decades of iron fist one party rule

Former Catholic bishop Fernando Lugo won a historic victory in Paraguay's Sunday presidential election, signaling the demise of more than six decades of one-party hegemonic rule in one of South America's poorest countries.