Mexico yesterday condemned Venezuela's planned nationalization of the cement industry, which will affect Cemex, a major Mexican company.
We can only condemn this action, Finance Minister Agustín Carstens said in the city of Acapulco.
A group of Malvinas veterans who last week on the anniversary of the beginning of the conflict visited the Falkland Islands, called on the Argentine government for the identification of all combatants buried in the Argentine cemetery at Darwin, reports the Buenos Aires press.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff from the combined Argentine Chilean Peace Force, Cruz del Sur (Southern Cross) was officially imposed this week in Santiago and described as another landmark in the bilateral relation of the neighboring countries.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Chilean president Michelle Bachelet underlined on Friday the urgent need for a new progressive agenda to tackle global issues such as climate change, globalization, poverty and inequality in the developing world.
Chilean British relations are excellent said President Michelle Bachelet following the half hour private meeting on Friday with Queen Elizabeth II in Windsor Castle. Ms Bachelet is on an official visit to Britain that includes her participation in a political conference of centre left leaders hosted by Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
A leader of Colombia's rebel group FARC ruled out the release of a high profile seriously ill French-Colombian hostage, (she will remain in our camps), unless there is a major prisoner exchange. The statement cast doubt on a French humanitarian mission sent to treat her.
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On the 26th anniversary of the beginning of the Falklands war, now renamed the Day of the Malvinas war veteran, Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner renewed calls for sovereignty over the South Atlantic Islands and emphasized that the Malvinas claim is unflagging.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has implored Colombia's rebel group FARC to free ailing hostage Ingrid Betancourt, saying she is in danger of dying. Mr Sarkozy has also announced a French mission to Colombia to try to get access to the hostage.
A huge political rally set up by the Argentine government with the support of friendly organizations in the heart of Buenos Aires was the Tuesday stage for President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to accuse striking farmers of cutting food supplies to cities and rekindling ghosts of the recent past.