Politics

Thursday, August 23rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC
NAFTA “three amigos” agree agenda remains undisturbed

United States President George W. Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderón pledged closer economic and security relationships but disagreements were also present as was a “lame duck” atmosphere.
Thursday, August 23rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Interpol arrest warrant for the cash-filled suitcase man

Interpol Argentina Office said Wednesday an international arrest warrant has been issued for a Venezuelan-US businessman wanted in Argentina on fraud charges stemming from the seizure of a cash-filled suitcase in a Buenos Aires airport.
Wednesday, August 22nd 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Unrelenting upheaval in President Kirchner's home province

Argentine president Nestor Kirchner faced on Tuesday another political challenge in his own turf, the province of Santa Cruz he ruled for years and where unions and other social groups marched along the capital Rio Gallegos to reject violence and bullying by former local allies of the president, one in particular who last Friday with his vehicle run over seventeen protestors.
Wednesday, August 22nd 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Suitcase scandal in limelight in spite of Kirchner and Chavez

Argentina's renowned anti-corruption crusader, lawyer Ricardo Monner Sans, urged the prosecution in the so-called suitcase scandal to investigate whether controls that led to the discovery of 800,000 dollars in possession of Venezuelan-US citizen Guido Antonini Wilson in Buenos Aires, also applied to other officials who arrived on the same plane.
Wednesday, August 22nd 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Rubber stamp assembly gives initial approval to Chavez reforms

Venezuela's National Assembly dominated by allies of President Hugo Chavez, gave unanimous initial approval Tuesday to constitutional reforms that would allow him to run for indefinite re-election, creates a popular militia, ends the Central Bank's autonomy and redefines property rights.
Wednesday, August 22nd 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Greenpeace accuses Brazil of encouraging Amazon deforestation

Brazil's government has promised to investigate allegations that its policy of settling landless communities in the Amazon is encouraging deforestation. Greenpeace has claimed that some of these areas are being exploited by logging companies, after what it says was an eight-month investigation.
Wednesday, August 22nd 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Menem on Mrs. K: “she's s arrogant, full of hatred and rancor”

President Nestor Kirchner administration is “the most corrupt ever in Argentina” claimed former president Carlos Menem in an interview with Chile's El Mercurio.
Monday, August 20th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina's Menem loses governor's race

Former President Carlos Menem was easily defeated by an incumbent governor of a western province on Sunday, ending a comeback bid by the 77-year-old who governed the country from 1989 to 1999.
Monday, August 20th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Navy's newest warship sets sail for Falkland Islands patrol duty

The Royal Navy's newest warship HMS Clyde left Portsmouth on Monday, 20 August bound for the South Atlantic.
Saturday, August 18th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Pte. Chávez and his counterpart Uribe to meet

President Hugo Chávez will meet with his Colombian counterpart this month to discuss the Venezuelan leader's offer to help mediate a humanitarian exchange with Colombia's largest rebel group.