Politics

Saturday, January 17th 2009 - 20:00 UTC
Lula da Silva tells Obama: beware of the “government machine”

Brazil's president Lula da Silva said on Friday he would like to talk with US president elect Barack Obama before the “government machine” gets hold of him and expected the incoming leader “would change his vision on Latinamerica and acknowledge the advance of regional democracy”.
Saturday, January 17th 2009 - 20:00 UTC
Growing controversy over the future of HMS Endurance

The Royal Navy has revealed it is arranging for HMS Endurance to be towed back to Portsmouth on a barge. The ice patrol vessel has been out of action since it suffered a major flood on December 16, and is currently berthed in the Falkland Islands, reports the Portsmouth press.
Saturday, January 17th 2009 - 20:00 UTC
Amnesic Kirchner denies having ever supported pickets

Former president Nestor Kirchner joined the long list of Argentine officials which have lately called publicly for an end to the pickets on an international bridge leading to neighbouring Uruguay.
Friday, January 16th 2009 - 20:00 UTC
Falkland Islands: Weekly Penguin News Update

Headlines: Vendée Globe competitors pass by on last long leg of the race; Founder of Desire Petroleum loses fight with illness; Moto-X to make a comeback.
Friday, January 16th 2009 - 20:00 UTC
Falklands readies opening of veteran's Liberty Lodge

THE Falkland Islands community is pulling together to keep on schedule the opening of a lodge for visiting British '82 war veterans.
Friday, January 16th 2009 - 20:00 UTC
Bush makes effective Peru-US free trade agreement

United States and Peru began on Friday the implementation of a free trade agreement just days before US president George W Bush leaves office and despite concerns about labour and environmental aspects of the accord.
Friday, January 16th 2009 - 20:00 UTC
Bolivia prepares for observers-packed referendum

The Organization of American States, OAS, will send 65 observers from 16 different countries to the constitutional reform referendum programmed for January 25th in Bolivia, reported the head of the OAS mission Raul Lago.
Thursday, January 15th 2009 - 20:00 UTC
Former governor Ralph associate fined for inside trading

The inside trading scandal in shares of mining company Monterrico Minerals involving a former Falkland Islands governor came to an end this week when Belgian investor, Erk Boyen was fined £ 176.254 by the UK' Financial Services Authority, reports The Independent in an article from Mathieu Robbins.
Thursday, January 15th 2009 - 20:00 UTC
Oliver Stone adds glamour to “South American revolution”

US film maker and director Oliver Stone working on a project on Latinamerican leaders interviewed on Wednesday in Buenos Aires Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner who praised the initiative as “a different version of what is happening here”.
Thursday, January 15th 2009 - 20:00 UTC
“King” Hugo Chavez closer to his dream of perpetuity

Venezuela's National Assembly on Wednesday approved amendments to the constitution that would allow President Hugo Chavez to run for re-election indefinitely, the final step before the proposal goes before voters in a referendum.