Politics

• Friday, June 1st 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Diplomatic incident brewing between Brazil and Venezuela

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to summon Venezuela's ambassador Julio Garcia Montoya “for the indispensable clarification” of President Hugo Chavez' reference to the Brazilian Senate as “a parrot that repeats whatever Washington says” adding that the Brazilian Congress was “controlled by the right wing”.

• Thursday, May 31st 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Farewell to the new patrol HMS Clyde

  

  MORE than 800 people toured the Royal Navy ship HMS Clyde as it prepared to leave Scotland for the Falklands.

• Wednesday, May 30th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Opposition Committed to “UN defined Decolonisation”

  

  GSLP/Liberal Opposition will press on for a United Nations defined decolonisation of Gibraltar. That was the message reiterated yesterday by Opposition Leader Joe Bossano on his return from the UN seminar in Grenada.

• Wednesday, May 30th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  False passport of Nazi Eichmann found in Buenos Aires court

  

  The false passport used by high-ranking Nazi Adolf Eichmann in 1950 to escape to Argentina was accidentally discovered in an old court record in Buenos Aires.

• Wednesday, May 30th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Mercosur, “an illusion of integration”; Brazil no longer leads

  

  Latinamerica has never been so divided, Mercosur is but an illusion of integration and Brazil has lost its leadership and convergence capacity according to former Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso who ruled from 1995 to 2000.

• Wednesday, May 30th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Pulp mills dispute: open dialogue but polite disagreement

  

  The second day of Argentine/Uruguayan talks to try to unlock the dispute over the construction of a pulp mill in Uruguay ended as it begun, with each side asserting its position and the commitment to a next meeting in the framework of an “open dialogue” atmosphere.

• Tuesday, May 29th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Venezuelans protest as TV station shuts

  

  Venezuelan police fired tear gas and plastic bullets Monday into a crowd of thousands protesting a decision by President Hugo Chavez that forced a television station critical of his leftist government off the air.

• Tuesday, May 29th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Bush has chosen Robert Zoellick for World Bank president

  United States President George W Bush has chosen Robert Zoellick, former deputy Secretary of State, to be president of the World Bank, US officials revealed on Tuesday.

• Tuesday, May 29th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Chavez threatens to sanction another television network

  Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez threatened Tuesday to sanction Globovision television station if they continue “to incite a murder attempt on his life” and insisted that the students' rioting allegedly to protest the taking out of the air of another network was part of a “de-stabilization plan”.

• Tuesday, May 29th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  New York round of Uruguay/Argentina pulp mill dispute

  

  Uruguayan and Argentine delegations held a technical meeting Tuesday in New York under the “dialogue facilitating” efforts of the Spanish Crown in an attempt to find a way out to the bilateral controversy over the building of a pulp mill on the Uruguayan shore of a shared river.