Politics

• Monday, November 12th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Uruguay to keep border with Argentina shut for now

  

  Uruguayan Foreign Minister Reynaldo Gargano yesterday ratified the country's decision to set up a border guard watch over the bridge joining the Argentine city of Gualeguaychú and the Uruguayan town of Fray Bentos.

• Monday, November 12th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  UK Veterans minister heads Remembrance Day in Falklands

  

  Britain's Veterans Minister Derek Twigg MP joined 250 veterans of the South Atlantic conflict of 25 years ago in the Remembrance Day service held in Stanley Cathedral in the Falkland Islands on Sunday 11 November.

• Sunday, November 11th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Falklands veterans 'lay ghosts to rest' on Tumbledown Mt.

  

  A night spent on a cold and rainy mountain this week has 'laid ghosts to rest' say former British Servicemen who have been haunted by the deaths of their friends and colleagues in the battle for the Falkland Islands twenty five years ago.

• Sunday, November 11th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentines protest against a Uruguayan pulp mill

  An estimated 20,000 Argentines marched to Argentina's river border with Uruguay on Saturday, some arriving by boat, to protest the opening of a paper plant in the neighboring Uruguay on fear its operations will endanger the environment and contaminate agricultural lands in their country.

• Sunday, November 11th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  “People Summit” Concludes in Santiago de Chile

  

  Chile's Summit for Friendship and Integration of the Latin-American People, popularly known as the People's Summit, culminated Saturday with an event that brought together Bolivian President Evo Morales, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, and Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage. Speaking to a crowd of roughly 3,000 spectators, the four leaders emphasized unity among Latin American nations–particularly against the hegemony of U.S. capitalism—as the key to constructing the region's future.

• Saturday, November 10th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Botnia start up has Uruguay/Argentina relations on the cliff

  

  Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez blamed Argentina's reluctance to end the pickets blocking access to bridges linking with Uruguay as the main reason for the collapse of dialogue and his decision to give the start up authorization for the Botnia pulp mill built along a river shared by the neighboring countries and which Argentina openly objects.

• Saturday, November 10th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Latam leaders: last Ibero-American day Summit in Chile

  

  Chávez and leftist allies in Bolivia and Ecuador have tightened state control over their energy industries and Bolivia, one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere, recently forced Argentina and Brazil to pay more for its natural gas.

• Saturday, November 10th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  UK Veterans minister at Falklands' Remembrance Sunday

  

  The Falkland Islands will commemorate Remembrance Sunday on Sunday 11th November 2007 and the following arrangements have been made.

• Saturday, November 10th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  King Juan Carlos I tells Pte. Chavez to 'Shut Up'

  

  King Juan Carlos I of Spain cast royal decorum aside today when Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez repeatedly try to interrupt the Spanish prime minister at a summit in Chile.

• Saturday, November 10th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Leaders agree to fight poverty at Ibero-American summit

  

  Leaders from Portugal, Spain, Andorra and 19 Latin American countries agreed to cooperate in promoting democracy and fighting social inequality at the 17th Ibero-American Summit, which ended Saturday in the Chilean capital.