Politics

Thursday, May 15th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
WTO optimistic about Doha accord before 2008 is over

World Trade Organisation director general Pascal Lamy said it is still possible that trade ministers could meet this month to work out the outlines of an agreement in the Doha Round of world trade talks.
Thursday, May 15th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Argentine media reacts to government attacks on Clarin

The Argentine association of newspapers, Adepa, publicly expressed concern about attacks from “government and government related sectors” against the Argentine press in general and particularly against editors and journalists from Clarín.
Thursday, May 15th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Peruvian President Garcia sets up environment ministry

Peru has created its first environment ministry, on the eve of a joint Latin American and European Union summit expected to focus on climate change.
Thursday, May 15th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Colonialism has no place in today's world, says UN

Although decolonization has been one of the United Nations' great success stories, the fact that 16 non-self-governing Territories remains means that the task has yet to be completed, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said this week.
Thursday, May 15th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Colombia-Ecuador conflict could filter EU-Latam summit

Latin American and European leaders are gathering in Lima, Peru on Friday for a much publicized summit which is scheduled to address climate change, high food prices and poverty. However an issue not included in the agenda could break into the meeting: Colombia's raid on a rebel camp inside Ecuador last early March.
Thursday, May 15th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
US lists polar bears as threatened species, with a loophole

The United States has listed the polar bear as a threatened species, because its Arctic sea ice habitat is melting due to climate change. US government scientists predict that two-thirds of the polar bear population of 25,000 could disappear by 2050. However, the government stressed the listing would not lead to measures to prevent global warming.
Thursday, May 15th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Chavez after better US relations with Bush's successor

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez said he hopes relations with the United States will improve substantially when the “devil” and “Mr Danger” President George W. Bush leaves the Oval Office in January.
Thursday, May 15th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina rates 103 out of 190 countries in institutional quality

Long obsessed with its image in the eyes of such international monitors as the United Nations Human Development Index or Transparency International, Argentina has had its own international Institutional Quality Index for the past two years.
Wednesday, May 14th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Chavez attacks Spanish King and German Chancellor

With just a few hours before the Lima, Peru, Latinamerican/Caribbean European Union leaders' summit Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is picking up arguments with Spain's president and Germany's Chancellor.
Wednesday, May 14th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Growing political support for Argentine farmers protest

Argentine farmers continued with their round of political contacts visiting Congress in Buenos Aires while officials from the Kirchner administration said governors should not feel obliged to receive farmers' delegations and anticipated that “new beneficial alternatives” were under consideration by the government.