Politics

• Thursday, March 6th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Conflict with the US is “inevitable” warns President Chavez

  

  Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said on Wednesday that a conflict with the government of United Sates is “inevitable” since it has consistently supported economically “the oligarch states of Latinamerica” that are not interested in the equality of peoples.

• Wednesday, March 5th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina: funds available to repair Navy's icebreaker

  

  Argentine Defence minister Nilda Garré announced on Monday that the funds to begin repairs on the Navy's ice breaker Almirante Irizar, ravaged by fire last April, have been made available following the completion of a survey on the extent of the damages suffered.

• Wednesday, March 5th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  CK calls for peace and confirms planned Venezuela trip

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner called on all Latinamerican countries to ratify their “commitment to peace” in the eve of her long planned Wednesday trip to Venezuela, which together with Ecuador have militarized their borders following an incursion by Colombian forces in Ecuadorian territory to kill a FARC rebel leader.

• Wednesday, March 5th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  FARC and France exchange veiled warning messages

  

  The killing of Raul Reyes, spokesperson and second in command of the Colombian FARC guerrillas, during an incursion by Colombian troops in Ecuador, is a “serious blow to the possibilities of a humanitarian exchange and to a political solution to the conflict” said the rebel group in a message released on Tuesday.

• Wednesday, March 5th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  OAS: no agreement on Ecuador Colombia conflict

  

  Country members from the Organization of American States, OAS, were unable to reach a statement on the Ecuador/Colombia incident forcing the Permanent Council to suspend the emergency session until mid day Wednesday.

• Wednesday, March 5th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  OAS resolution eases tension between Colombia and Ecuador

  

  The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) on Wednesday approved a resolution stating Colombia violated Ecuador's sovereignty with a cross-border raid to kill a leftist rebel over the weekend.

• Tuesday, March 4th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Colombia to bring genocide charges against Chavez

  

  Colombian President Alvaro Uribe announced Tuesday he will ask the International Criminal Court in Rome to bring genocide charges against President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. He accused Mr Chavez of sponsoring and financing Colombian FARC rebels. Venezuela denies the charge.

• Tuesday, March 4th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Prosecutor reviewing ex-governor Kirchner Santa Cruz oil funds

  

  An Argentine prosecutor has requested former president Nestor Kirchner be summoned to declare on alleged irregular handling of funds belonging to the provincial government of Santa Cruz, which he ruled during eleven years

• Tuesday, March 4th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  UN urges C 24 decolonization advance process

  

  All over the world, hundreds of millions of people had exercised their right to self-determination and achieved self-government, and facilitating that process was “one of the proudest chapters of our Organization's history” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said last week as he opened the current session of the Special Committee on decolonisation, the so called C24 (according to official UN reports).

• Monday, March 3rd 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Strong criticism to “bi-lateralization” of Mercosur block

  

  The “bi-lateralization” of Argentine-Brazilian relations and the incorporation of Venezuela are factors grinding the basic structure of Mercosur, said Uruguay's former president Julio Maria Sanguinetti during a recent visit to Paraguay.