Politics

• Wednesday, June 25th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Chile prepared to cut Armed Forces copper earnings share

  José Pablo Arellano, CEO of Chile's state-owned CODELCO copper company, this week questioned the utility of a Pinochet-era law that gives 10% of CODELCO sales to the Chilean military.

• Wednesday, June 25th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Ecuador Colombia relations back in the cold and trade threats

  Ecuador will not resume diplomatic ties with Colombia after the latter decided to postpone renewal of relations, Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Maria Isabel Salvador announced this week in Quito.

• Wednesday, June 25th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Global food crisis, key issue in agenda of coming G8 summit

  United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that he will focus his attention on raising the issue of food security at the G8 summit of major industrialized nations in Japan early next month, as well as the challenges of climate change and the anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

• Wednesday, June 25th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Chavez arms shopping in Russia to defend “revolution”

  

  President Hugo Chavez said that Venezuela will continue to strengthen its military power following the announcement that vice president Ramon Carrizalez and Defence minister General Gustavo Rangel Briceño would be traveling to Russia to intensify military cooperation.

• Tuesday, June 24th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine farmers' conflict leads to a “dialogue season”

  “Positive” and “important” were the words used to describe the Monday afternoon hour and a half meeting between Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and farmers in Government House following a stand off of over 100 days.

• Tuesday, June 24th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay proposes full integration or Mexico to Mercosur

  Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez said that Mexico must integrate with Mercosur and Unasur (Union of South American nations) because otherwise the concept of unity, which these two organizations represent would be “incomplete and insufficient”.

• Tuesday, June 24th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Cristina among the three worst rated presidents

  

  Six months into office Argentina's president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner honeymoon with the electorate is over and under. Her standing is also at the bottom rock of a list of Latinamerican and US leaders according to the latest public opinion poll from the renowned Mexican consulting firm Mitofsky.

• Monday, June 23rd 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands' new Draft Constitution begins public consultation

  The Falkland Islands Select Committee on the Constitution has now reached agreement with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on the content of the new Draft Constitution for the Falklands, and it can now be released for public consultation.

• Monday, June 23rd 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Bolivia's four richest provinces confirm greater autonomy

  Bolivia's strategic gas-rich Tarija province voted overwhelmingly on Sunday in favor of greater autonomy, approximately 80%, according to the first results which also confirms exit polls. However abstention in the fourth Bolivian province to vote for greater autonomy was above 35%.

• Monday, June 23rd 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Veteran Argentine cameraman with Falklands experience dies

  Argentine television cameraman Erich Schmidt died in Buenos Aires last weekend after a long illness.