Politics

• Monday, March 19th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner on the international campaign trail

  

  Argentina's First Lady, Senator Cristina Fernandez and a serious candidate to succeed her husband if President Nestor Kirchner finally does not run for reelection next October, is back on the international trail on a high exposure tour.

• Monday, March 19th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Crucial labor negotiations week begins in Argentina

  A rough week of salaries negotiations begins this Monday in Argentina involving such key sectors as metal workers, bank employees and railway personnel who have already announced demands starting at a 20% floor. Employers have offered 10%.

• Monday, March 19th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  NZ minister to visit Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay

  

  New Zealand's Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters leaves Tuesday on a two-week visit of South America and the aim is to build closer political, economic, and personal links with the region, reports the Auckland press.

• Monday, March 19th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Provincial election confirms support for Kirchner's project

  The elected governor of the Argentine province that has speared the dispute with Uruguay over the construction of a pulp mill on a shared border river, ratified he will follow instructions from Buenos Aires and keep to the trail of the current governor.

• Monday, March 19th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  South Georgia incident anticipated Falklands' war

  

  A note demanding Argentina remove its flag from the United Kingdom territory of South Georgia - ahead of the Falkland Islands conflict - is to go on public display at the National Army Museum reports BBC.

• Sunday, March 18th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  “Mummy's War” on Falkland's conflict ready to be aired

  

  Carol Thatcher's “Mummy's War”, a documentary on the 1982 Falkland Islands war will be aired next week in London, it was announced by the European press.

• Friday, March 16th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Al Jazeera to join media invasion of Falkland Islands

  

  With some days to go to the 25th anniversary of the invasion of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) by Argentine forces on 2nd April 1982 and even longer to the anniversary of their liberation by British forces, the journalistic invasion of the archipelago continues to grow with each of the weekly arrivals of the LAN flight from Santiago, Chile or the British Forces air bridge direct from leafy Oxfordshire, in England.

• Friday, March 16th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Paraguayan president praises Chavez, lashes out at Bush

  

  Paraguayan President Nicanor Duarte lashed out at his US counterpart George W. Bush for failing to contribute to development in poor countries, and hailed Hugo Chávez' Venezuela as a country “with an overdose of democracy.”

• Friday, March 16th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazil builds wall to stop smuggling from Paraguay

  

  In contrast to pledges of lowering Mercosur barriers for junior members (Paraguay and Uruguay), Brazil confirmed the construction of a steel and concrete wall along the Paraguayan border to help combat contraband in the Triple frontier area where Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay meet.

• Friday, March 16th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Kirchner: “we will always support those who helped us”

  

  “With the brothers from the Latinamerican republics that have helped us we are always going to be supportive. The doors of Argentina will remain completely open and we're doing so with no drawbacks”, said Argentina's president Nestor Kirchner during a political rally in the outskirts of Buenos Aires.