Politics

Tuesday, May 13th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina/Chile Dakar edition begins January 3 in Bs. As.

Argentina and Chile will be hosting for the first time ever the 2009 edition of the Dakar rally that will extend from next January 3 to 18 covering 9.000 kilometers. The announcement was made on Tuesday in Paris by Patrice Clerc, president of Amaury Sport Organization and Etienne Lavigne director of the competition.
Monday, May 12th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Ambitious agenda for EU/Latam summit with 53 leaders

Peru is hosting the fifth European Union/Latinamerica/Caribbean leaders' summit and has displayed 85.000 police and Armed Forces in the capital Lima, of which 6.000 in the immediate area where deliberations will take place. The event begins next Tuesday and concludes Friday with the leaders summit.
Monday, May 12th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Bolivian president and governors recall referendum August 10

Bolivian President Evo Morales committed himself and the country's nine governors on Monday to face a recall referendum next August 10, gambling that his unfinished term and controversial reforms will survive the vote.
Sunday, May 11th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Argentine farmers plan more protests; governors' support

Tired of waiting for signals from President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's administration, Argentine farmers' leaders are ready to extend the current lock out which expires next Thursday, according to warning speeches over the weekend.
Saturday, May 10th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
“Foreign Press Association of New York celebrates 90 years”

The Foreign Press Association of New York, the oldest media organization in the United States, is celebrating its 90th Anniversary this year with Carl Bernstein as the keynote speaker at a gala dinner to be held on May 13 at the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan.
Saturday, May 10th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Argentine farmers lobbying governors to join struggle

Argentine striking farmers completed the second day of their renewed protest with an open meeting in one of the country's northern provinces warning that the country is beginning to feel recession symptoms because of the stoppage, while from Buenos Aires the Kirchners administration continued with their verbal attack calling them greedy and irresponsible.
Saturday, May 10th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Madrid “certain” Odyssey treasure is Spanish

Spanish experts who analysed samples of the controversial treasure raised by Odyssey Marine Exploration last summer have concluded that it came from a Spanish galleon. At a press conference in the Ministry of Culture in Madrid yesterday, Spain's US lawyer, James Goold, said Spain was “absolutely certain” that the treasure came from the 19th century warship Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes.
Friday, May 9th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Brazil's warning message about Bolivian separatism

Brazil's Foreign Affairs minister Celso Amorim said that South America would never accept “separatism in Bolivia” and underlined that any autonomy must be negotiated with La Paz, reports O'Globo.
Friday, May 9th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Paraguayan elected president after Congressional accord

Paraguayan president elect Fernando Lugo who takes office next August 15 will have to reach a working agreement in Congress since the coalition that supported him was unable to obtain a majority.
Friday, May 9th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Hawks & hooligans, the Kirchners' anti inflation plan

Hardliners have taken over the Argentine administration of President Mrs. Kirchner determined to a complete victory over the farmers in the current conflict, while pickets of hooligans have taken to the streets to intimidate businesses to moderate prices thus helping to combat the country's spiraling inflation.