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Montevideo, April 4th 2025 - 02:15 UTC

Politics

  • Wednesday, March 26th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    Extreme tension after CFK speech: indefinite farming strike

    Bs. Aires residents banging pots in a raucous, spontaneous outpouring of support for the farmworkers

    Argentine President Cristina Fernandez refused to ease tax hikes on agricultural exports Tuesday, facing down angry farmers embroiled in a nationwide strike that has all but halted production in one of the world's biggest beef-exporting nations.

  • Wednesday, March 26th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    Little chance FARC will free high-profile hostage

    FARC hostage Ingrid Betancourt

    There is little chance Colombia rebels will free one-time Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt after that country's March 1 attack on a rebel camp inside Ecuador, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Tuesday

  • Wednesday, March 26th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    UK: Commons to get vote over war plans

    The Prime Minister will in future normally be required to obtain the approval of the House of Commons before sending British forces to war, under plans set out by the Government.

  • Wednesday, March 26th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    Chile to spend millions removing borders' landmines

    Chile will spend nine million dollars this year to remove thousands of land mines planted along the Argentine, Bolivian and Peruvian borders during a territorial dispute in the late 1970s, according to a report published this week.

  • Wednesday, March 26th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    Venezuela will help Mercosur become continental block

    Brazil's Celso Amorin has only words of praise for Venezuela

    Mercosur with Venezuela included has “the potential of becoming a trade block of the whole of South America” said Brazilian Foreign Affairs minister Ceslo Amorim who also insisted that keeping out of the Washington inspired Free Trade Area of the Americas, FTAA, “has been positive”.

  • Wednesday, March 26th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    Argentine woman swims across Falkland's sound

    Maria trains in the icy waters of Perito Moreno glacier

    An Argentine woman, 39, who lost a leg as a child, but has a long experience in open spaces swimming, last week successfully crossed the Falkland Islands' sound.

  • Tuesday, March 25th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    Argentine officials tell farmers “no dialogue under pressure”

    Road blocks are becaming a source of conforntation

    The Argentine government will not dialogue “under pressure” with striking farmers said Monday Justice minister Anibal Fernandez. Farmers have completed twelve days of surprising successful protests against the government's tax policy on grain, beef and dairy exports.

  • Tuesday, March 25th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    South Korea bans mozzarella imports from Italy

    Mozzarella cheese is prepared at a dairy in Caserta, near Naples

    South Korea has banned the import of Italy's best mozzarella after reports some cheese was made with milk contaminated with cancer-causing dioxin, an official announced Monday in Seoul.

  • Tuesday, March 25th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    Chilean Air Force pilots migrating to commercial airlines

    Chilean Air Force pilots prefear to fly for commercial airlines

    The Chilean Air Force is increasingly concerned with the “loss” of highly trained pilots that are migrating to commercial airlines attracted by higher salaries and better working conditions. The issue is considered so serious that the Congressional Senate and Lower House Defence committees have decided to address the issue.

  • Tuesday, March 25th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

    Brown and Sarkozy to call for greater bank transparency

    Sarkozy: Tea with the Queen and banks with Brown

    British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French president Nicholas Sarkozy are expected to call on banks this week to issue “full and immediate disclosure of their write-offs” as a consequence of the global credit crunch, according to British sources.