Politics

• Friday, August 17th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  United Nations rushes aid to quake-hit Peru

  

  The United Nations is rushing food, water purification tablets, cash and other forms of assistance to Peru following last night's powerful earthquake which struck south of the capital, Lima.

• Thursday, August 16th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Chavez formalizes proposal for his perpetuation in office

  

  In spite of protests from the opposition and Roman Catholics Bishops conference President Hugo Chavez called for changes to Venezuela's constitution Wednesday night which would allow him to be re-elected indefinitely.

• Thursday, August 16th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Malvinas war veterans file lawsuit against Argentine officers

  

  About 39 Argentine war veterans from the 1982 Falkland/Malvinas conflict with Great Britain are expected to file a lawsuit before a federal judge in Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego, accusing their officers of torture during the war.

• Thursday, August 16th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  RN super destroyer surpasses all expectations in trials

  

  A Royal Navy warship built in Clyde shipyards and billed as the world's most advanced destroyer finished Thursday its first test run on the open sea. HMS Daring, the first in a batch of six destroyers ordered by the Royal Navy, has completed a month of sea trials and arrived at the town of Largs on the west coast.

• Wednesday, August 15th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Cash-stuffed suitcase makes The New York Times headlines

  

  The New York Times published Tuesday a long, critical article about the “cash-stuffed suitcase” which has the potential to “split Venezuela and Argentina” warm ties and left President Nestor Kirchner and his wife “scrambling to contain any potential damage to her bid to succeed him as president”.

• Wednesday, August 15th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Kirchner's political unity project takes off with Cristina

  

  Emphasizing unity by conviction and not necessarily party affiliation Senator Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (Victory Front-Buenos Aires) and Mendoza Radical Governor Julio Cobos were officially launched Tuesday night as the Argentine government's presidential ticket for the coming election next October 28.

• Wednesday, August 15th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Reciprocity: US citizens need visas to visit Bolivia

  

  In a long anticipated “reciprocity” decision as of this Wednesday United States citizens will have to request visas to visit Bolivia. Earlier this year president Evo Morales said that all countries have dignity “even small, underdeveloped countries as Bolivia”.

• Tuesday, August 14th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Peruvian map renews boundary controversy with Chile

  

  Chile summoned home its ambassador from Peru on Monday after the publication in the Peruvian Gazette of an official map which renewed a border dispute dating from a war more than 120 years ago.

• Tuesday, August 14th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Nobody dares claim the scandal suitcase with 790.550 dollars

  

  Argentina and Venezuela seem on collision course as a direct consequence of the suitcase scandal involving almost 800.000 US dollars which were to be introduced to Buenos Aires in still undisclosed circumstances by Venezuelan officials traveling in an aircraft officially chartered by Argentina's Energy company, Enarsa.

• Monday, August 13th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Pinochet's son sells former dictator's suits

  

  Clothes of the late Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean military leader, has been put up for sale by his son at a central Santiago tailor's shop, but only to customers identified as the Chilean dictator's supporters, reports say.