Former Argentina president Eduardo Duhalde has called on the leaders of Argentina's farm rebellion to engage actively in politics, urging them to participate in government and congressional posts. Farm protests should not fade away, he said.
The hegemonic political system forged by former Argentine president Néstor Kirchner and his wife and successor Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has suffered an irreversible blow with the defeat of their grain duty hike bill in Congress in July, according to three Menemist intellectuals.
A new poll shows that the popularity of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is at its highest level since he took office in 2003.
Former Economy minister Martín Lousteau claimed that Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's administration is atypical, very centralized and is incapable of delegating, adding that the President is in love with abnormality and crisis.
Uruguayan flag air carrier Pluna is facing financial turbulences, a story which seems a repeat of Latinamerican government airlines in the brink of having to ground overwhelmed by debts, unachieved objectives and sheer planning incompetence.
Brazil will not accept any attempt to overthrow the government in Bolivia as opposition protests spiral into deadly clashes with government supporters, the Brazilian president's foreign policy adviser said on Thursday.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced on Thursday that the Unite States ambassador has 72 hours to leave Venezuela and he's recalling his ambassador from Washington.
The Argentine government said that relations with United States have been affected and described the Miami federal court cash scandal case, which allegedly involved money for President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner electoral campaign, as a political operation.
Headlines: Robin returns to receive honour; Saints to learn from our mistakes?; Remains identified; Inside: New staff at FICS; Uni students boost aquaculture project; Dictionary of Falklands Biography; Penguin News goes winch training.
Bolivian President Evo Morales after having secured support from South American neighbors tried on Friday to halt a wave of political violence that has killed at least 12 people by arranging talks with one of four rebel governors who fiercely oppose his reforms.