Politics

Wednesday, August 13th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
UN proposes plant mutation to tackle food crisis

Plant mutation, a scientific technique that dramatically improves crop productivity, could be part of the solution to the current food and energy crisis that threatens to plunge millions worldwide into hunger, according to a United Nations expert on the subject.
Wednesday, August 13th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina's official inflation: even most faithful misbelieve

Enough is enough. Even the most loyal of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner officials are rebelling against the latest consumer prices index released on Monday by the Statistics and Census Office, Indec.
Wednesday, August 13th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Paraguay's 300.000 landless families wait for new president

Land distribution promises to become the main immediate challenge for Paraguay's elected president Fernando Lugo who takes office on Friday. An estimated 300.000 peasant families are expecting to be given a lot of land and their organizations are impatient.
Wednesday, August 13th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Lula openly confirms 1979 amnesty bill and silences ministers

In an attempt to cool a controversy over punishing torturers from the 21 year military dictatorship, Brazilian president Lula da Silva said Brazilians should enshrine the “heroes” of that time and not only concentrate on incriminating the “villains” who killed them.
Monday, August 11th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Morales ratified but also the political scenario stalemate

Bolivian president Evo Morales was ratified in his post with a comfortable support in the range of 60% in Sunday's recall vote which also included the vice president and governors of all of the country's provinces.
Monday, August 11th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Chavez preparing the field for Nov state and city elections

Columns marched through the capital Caracas to protest a package of laws that expand Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez powers while a delegation from opposition parties delivered a document at the Organization of American States stating that the latest decisions are a “coup” against the rule of law and the Constitution.
Monday, August 11th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Kirchners declared solid bank account and 38 properties

Argentina's ruling couple Cristina and Nestor Kirchner assets in the first half of the year increased significantly while the Education minister Juan Carlos Tudesco figures as the richest man in the cabinet, according to their income disclosures published over the weekend in the Buenos Aires press.
Monday, August 11th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Uruguay confirms economic policy and names new minister

Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez confirmed Monday that Economy minister Danilo Astori would be leaving his post next September 15th but at the same time emphasized that there would be no changes to the current macroeconomic policy to which his administration has been successfully committed.
Monday, August 11th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina/Uruguay clash over export duties in Mercosur

Neighboring Uruguay and Argentina have again clashed over trade in the framework of Mercosur. Argentina is complaining about a 2% consular levy Uruguay applies to all imports while Uruguayan authorities argue that the controversial farm export taxes distort market conditions.
Saturday, August 9th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Malvinas war was a “battle” of ongoing claim, says CFK

The Malvinas war was but a “battle” for the ongoing Argentine claim over the Falkland Islands which has the support of the world's citizenship and Margaret Thatcher, as a citizen of a world military power “will never be able to hide the fact the UK is a colonial country in the XXI century”.