Politics

• Tuesday, May 1st 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Malvinas Mirage III crashes during “baptism of fire” celebration

  

  The Argentine Air Force “baptism of fire” 25th celebration turned into tragedy Tuesday morning when a Mirage III interceptor after two successful low flying demonstrations crashed in a field next to the Tandil VI Air Brigade.

• Monday, April 30th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Peruvian miners strike threatens global supply of metals

  

  An indefinite national strike by mine workers in Peru has spread to half the industry threatening to disrupt global supplies of metals such as copper, zinc and gold after weekend talks with the government failed of which Peru is a leading global exporter.

• Monday, April 30th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Portal with 400 governance indicators on Latinamerica

  

  The Inter-American Development Bank unveiled DataGob, an innovative portal that offers access to some 400 governance indicators, covering topics as varied as support for democracy, the cost of starting a business, wastefulness in government spending and police corruption in Latin America and the Caribbean and other developing regions of the world.

• Monday, April 30th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Gibraltar recommends trilateral dialogue process for Falklands

  

  Gibraltar Government agrees with Rafael Estrella, one of the architect's of the current Spanish government dialogue policy and now Spain's Ambassador to Argentina, that the Trilateral Forum of Dialogue model could be usefully applied to the Falklands, reports the Gibraltar Chronicle.

• Monday, April 30th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Transparency International praises debarment of corrupt companies

  

  Transparency International praised the Washington based Inter-American Development Bank's (IADB) publication of its list of sanctioned firms and individuals. Publication of this information is an effective deterrent to fraud and corruption in development assistance and in the countries receiving that assistance argues TI.

• Monday, April 30th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  The night the Falklands' conflict became an inevitable war

  

  Former US Ambassador in Argentina Harry Shlaudeman and declassified US national security documents of 25 years ago reveal desperate last minute efforts the night of April 30 to avoid the Falkland Islands conflict from becoming a full fledged war.

• Sunday, April 29th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Chile Google Earth moves a village to Argentina

  

  The Chilean government wants Google to fix its Earth geographical search program that places a village named after Chilean independence hero Bernardo O'Higgins in Argentina.

• Saturday, April 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Kirchner/Lula reinforce “strategic alliance” and discuss bio-fuels

  Argentina's Nestor Kirchner and Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva strengthened the “strategic relationship” between the two largest members of Mercosur during a presidential summit in Buenos Aires on Friday where bio-fuels and the Southern Bank figured top of the agenda.

• Saturday, April 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Chavez and allies open alternative ALBA meeting

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is hosting this weekend in Barquisimeto his closest regional allies at the summit of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), an integration bloc he and Cuban ruler Fidel Castro founded in 2004 to counter the “Washington-based free trade model” better known as the Free Trade Area of the Americas.

• Saturday, April 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  New Chinese Foreign Secretary UK educated, US expert

  

  China announced Friday the appointment of a new Foreign Affairs Minister, replacing veteran diplomat Li Zhaoxing with a younger Yang Jiechi, who is a former ambassador to the United States.