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Politics

  • Thursday, January 17th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

    HMS Endurance visit rejected by Ushuaia Malvinas veterans

    HMS Endurance currently in the Antartica

    Argentine Malvinas veterans from Tierra del Fuego in the extreme south of Argentina made public their dissatisfaction with the coming visit of Britain's ice patrol HMS Endurance to the port of Ushuaia next January 26.

  • Thursday, January 17th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

    Bolivia's Morales and rebel governors agree to seek compromise

    Pte. Morales and his task of keeping Bolivia united

    Divided Bolivia took a tentative step toward reconciliation as President Evo Morales and opposition governors agreed to seek a compromise between Morales' new constitution and declarations of autonomy by four resource rich eastern states.

  • Thursday, January 17th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

    Chile summons ambassador in Lima over limit dispute

    Chile summoned home its ambassador to Peru for consultations amid a growing dispute over the countries maritime boundary and lucrative fishing grounds. Foreign Minister Alejandro Foxley said Ambassador Cristian Barros was due in Santiago Thursday or Friday “for a long conversation”.

  • Wednesday, January 16th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

    Brazil extends one billion US dollars credit to Cuba

    Lula takes a shot of Cuban leader Fidel Castro

    Cuban leader Fidel Castro is lucid and healthy enough to resume a political role in Cuba, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Tuesday at the end of a 24 hours visit to the island during which ten bilateral agreements were signed.

  • Tuesday, January 15th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

    FARC robs Colombian tourists and takes six hostages

    New Farc kidnappings in Colombia

    Colombia's biggest rebel group cocaine funded FARC kidnapped six Colombian tourists in the western province of Choco, daily El Tiempo reported in its online edition.

  • Tuesday, January 15th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

    Lula visits Cuba with an option for Venezuelan influence

    President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva arrived Tuesday in Havana for a 24-hour visit to strengthen economic ties with Cuba. He is expected to sign a series of trade, cooperation and investment agreements in spite of the US economic embargo

  • Tuesday, January 15th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

    Spanish government calls for general elections March 9

    The Spanish government called general elections for March 9, formally launching Monday what is shaping up as a close race between the ruling Socialists and opposition conservatives.

  • Tuesday, January 15th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

    Environmentalists held on Japanese whaling vessel

    Two members of the conservation organization Sea Shepherd are being held on a Japanese whaling boat they boarded last night in Antarctic waters. According to the group the two men, a Briton and an Australian, boarded the Yushin Maru No. 2, to deliver a message that its whaling activities are illegal.

  • Tuesday, January 15th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

    Chile united to defend maritime border dispute with Peru

    The political parties of the Chilean ruling coalition Concertación, the opposition Alianza alliance and the Communist Party (PC) gave their full backing Monday to the government's plan to defend Chile's northern maritime border against claims by neighboring Peru. The two countries seek to resolve the maritime issue at the International Court of Justice at The Hague.

  • Tuesday, January 15th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

    Sukey speaks of her “mainland mission” to The Times

    Sukey Cameron MBE head of FIGO, which is celebreting its 25th anniversary

    Twenty-five years ago this month, in the wake of the Falklands conflict, the Islands Government set up an office in London to represent it in the UK. “Sir Rex Hunt, then Falklands Governor, took me for a drink in London and asked if I'd join,” recalls Sukey Cameron, pictured above left. She did so in 1983 – becoming Representative in 1990 — and there clearly could have been no better choice than this third-generation Falklander.