Politics

• Saturday, August 25th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Peru's president García gesture towards Chile

  

  Dampening speculation of a growing rift between the two neighboring countries, Peruvian President Alan Garcia this week traveled to a shared Chilean-Peruvian border area to promote further economic integration between Peru and Chile.

• Friday, August 24th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Weekly Penguin News update

  

  Headlnes:
  Cherie takes first Status pledge; Smiles abound as kids make the college grade; West ferry terminal uncertainty remains; 'Jail break' investigation.

• 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.