Tag: OAS

• Saturday, December 3rd 2011 - 09:02 UTC

  Under Chavez sponsorship Latam nomenclature adds a new regional grouping

  

  Showing off new energy after cancer treatment, Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez hosted Latin American leaders on Friday to create a new regional body that pointedly excludes the United States and Canada.

• Saturday, December 3rd 2011 - 08:56 UTC

  Correa says OAS should have been disarticulated in 1982 when the Malvinas war

  

  Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa again questioned the existence of the Organization of American States, OAS, which should have been disarticulated in 1982 during the Falklands/Malvinas war and insisted that the region’s problems “should be discussed in the region and not in Washington”.

• Wednesday, November 23rd 2011 - 20:01 UTC

  Argentina has great hopes with the Caribbean back in the Latinamerican fold

  

  Argentina has great expectations about the coming summit for the official creation of the Community of Latinamerican and Caribbean states, Celac, scheduled to take place next December 2 and 3 in Venezuela, said Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman.

• Tuesday, November 1st 2011 - 04:58 UTC

  OAS faces critical financial situation; difficulties to pay salaries

  

  The Organization of American States, OAS, faces a financial ‘crisis’ warned Monday Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza after country members approved the 2012 budget totalling 85.3 million dollars, with no increase over the current level of expenditure.

• Tuesday, October 25th 2011 - 04:06 UTC

  Brazil ignores OAS meeting due to dispute over hydroelectric dam

  

  Brazil will not take part in the annual meeting of the Organization of American States in Washington on Wednesday due to a dispute over a giant hydroelectric plant, said opponents of the scheme.

• Tuesday, October 18th 2011 - 08:49 UTC

  Supreme Court knocks out main challenger to President Chavez re-election

  

  Venezuela's Supreme Court blocked high-profile opposition challenger Leopoldo López on Monday from running against President Hugo Chávez in a 2012 vote despite an international ruling in his favour.

• Tuesday, August 23rd 2011 - 06:42 UTC

  OAS calls for ‘shared responsibility’ from drug-consuming countries

  

  Consumer countries must assume their responsibility in the fight against the drug trade because as long as there is a demand, the illegal business won’t be stopped said the Organization of American States Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza who also praised his host Peruvian president Ollanta Humala for convening a presidential summit on the issue.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 23:43 UTC

  US and Spain host to most of the 6.5 million that migrated from the Americas from 2003 to 2009

  

  Between 2003 and 2009, nearly 950,000 people per year emigrated from the Americas to countries of the OECD and of this total, nearly half went to the United States, and a fourth to Spain, according to the First Report on International Migration in the Americas.

• Wednesday, July 6th 2011 - 22:35 UTC

  Peruvian president-elect promises full support for a ‘strengthened’ OAS

  

  Peruvian president elect Olland Humala said on Wednesday he wants a “strengthened” Organization of American States, OAS, because Peru “fully supports the organization”. Humala is currently visiting United States where he was also scheduled to meet with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama.

• Monday, June 13th 2011 - 12:10 UTC

  US main interest is a “stable Argentina”, warns Falklands Task Force head

  

  The head of the Royal Navy Task Force that recovered the Falkland Islands during the 1982 South Atlantic conflict has warned about UK defense cuts and underlined that United States has little interest in supporting Britain in any conflict since a stable Argentina is more important to the State Department.