Politics

Friday, October 12th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Colombia gas-links with Venezuela and joins Bank of the South

Colombia formally requested to join the regional multilateral development bank known as the Bank of the South. President Alvaro Uribe made the announcement on Friday during the inauguration of a gas pipeline which links Guajira in northern Colombia with Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo area.
Friday, October 12th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Chavez bans Spanish pop singer from government stadium

A popular Spanish singer has been banned from performing in a Caracas stadium over remarks he made about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Higher Education Minister Luis Acuña accused Alejandro Sanz of criticizing Chavez three years ago while touring Venezuela.
Friday, October 12th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Nine million children in Latinamerica malnourished

FAO called Friday on Latinamerican governments to fight infant malnutrition in the region which affects nine million children in the region which are born condemned to exclusion,
Thursday, October 11th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Venezuelans to pay price of president's moral crusade

President Hugo Chávez has announced sharp tax increases on tobacco and alcoholic beverages, amid a raft of other measures aimed at curbing luxury imports and instilling the new morality of his ''21st Century Socialism.''
Thursday, October 11th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
UK invites Argentina to jointly work in seabed extension

The United Kingdom reiterated in an open letter published Thursday in the Buenos Aires press its willingness to collaborate with Argentina in continental shelf extension presentations contemplated under the Convention on the Law of the Sea.
Thursday, October 11th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
British activist Doris Lessing wins Nobel for literature

British writer, Iran born, Doris Lessing won the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy announced Thursday citing her “skepticism, fire and visionary power” in dozens of works, notably her classic “The Golden Notebook.”
Thursday, October 11th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Global education spending concentrated in few rich countries

A new publication by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) shows that global spending on education is concentrated in just a few countries, with the education budget of a single country like France or Italy outweighing education spending across all of sub-Saharan Africa.
Thursday, October 11th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina military running short of officers and servicemen

Low unemployment, poor salaries and an overall political hostility climate towards the military in recent years have combined to see the Argentine Armed Forces recruitment fall drastically.
Wednesday, October 10th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Rice defends free trade pacts with Latam countries

United States Congress would deliver a “great blow” to Peru, Panama and Colombia, as well as damage U.S. interests in Latin America, if it fails to pass free-trade agreements with the three countries, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Tuesday.
Wednesday, October 10th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Argentine anti pulp mill activists marches banned in Uruguay

Uruguay will ban Argentine activists who oppose a pulp mill in Fray Bentos, from marching or organizing concentrations so as to avoid provocations, announced Minister of Interior Daisy Tourné.