Politics

Tuesday, November 6th 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Emotional return of UK 82' veterans to the Falkland Islands

TWO hundred and fifty British Falklands War veterans landed at Mount Pleasant Airport at 9am this morning. The group visit under the auspices of the charity the South Atlantic Medal Association (82).
Monday, November 5th 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Centrist claims win in Guatemala

A former army general who once took on the insurgency in Guatemala's long civil war lost his battle for the country's presidency on Sunday night, with voters rejecting his plan to use an iron fist, as well as the country's military, to control a sky-high murder rate.
Monday, November 5th 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Cristina : Botnia must not condition links with Uruguay

Argentina's elected president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner adopted a more pragmatic attitude towards the ongoing pulp mill conflict with Uruguay arguing that the outcome of the case presented before the International Court of The Hague is what matters and in the meantime ”we should not pledge our relations (with Uruguay) in other areas”.
Sunday, November 4th 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Argentine elected president meets with foreign leaders

Argentine elected president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will be meeting this week Chilean president Michelle Bachelet and the head of the Spanish government Jose Luis Gonzalez Zapatero, her first interviews with foreign leaders since she won October 28.
Sunday, November 4th 2007 - 20:00 UTC
A divided Venezuela by Chavez reforms takes to the streets

Tens of thousands of Venezuelans marched through the capital Caracas on Sunday, in a show of support for the constitution reforms that will greatly expand President Hugo Chavez's executive powers and eliminate presidential term limits allowing him to run for re-election indefinitely.
Saturday, November 3rd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Malvinas charter ban, “no policy change” insists Argentina

Argentina's charter flights policy towards the Falkland Islands “remains intact since established in November 2003”, and from then on “no non regular flights, from third flag commercial airlines, between third countries and Islas Malvinas have been authorized”, reports Friday the Buenos Aires press quoting Foreign Affairs ministry sources.
Saturday, November 3rd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Guatemala voting for president in neck-and-neck runoff

Guatemalans are set to vote Sunday for president in a second-round election between hardline General Otto Perez and social democrat Alvaro Colom.
Friday, November 2nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Falkland Islands: Weekly Penguin News update

Headlines: 'For the country I love'; Charter flight on the way; Helicopters for FIGAS?; Wife to wear the trousers at Casa Rosada.
Friday, November 2nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Brazil hikes military spending with new defense plan

Brazil has announced it plans to boost military spending by more than 50% in 2008, to around an estimated 5.4 billion US dollars and draw up a new defense plan, but told its neighbors they should not worry.
Friday, November 2nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
“Supreme Chavez” reforms approved by Venezuelan assembly

Venezuela's National Assembly gave on Friday its final approval to a package of constitutional reforms that strengthens the powers of President Hugo Chavez and his Socialist-Bolivarian republic project.