United States

Saturday, April 14th 2012 - 22:34 UTC
Chavez cancels summit’s plan and flies to Cuba on a 90 day leave for treatment

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez will not attend this weekend's hemispheric summit in Colombia and will instead fly straight to Cuba to continue radiation treatment for cancer, his foreign minister said on Saturday.
Saturday, April 14th 2012 - 22:26 UTC
“Revolutionary Junta” to consolidate “Chavism”, forecasts US expert in Latam affairs

Venezuelan military alarmed by the fast physical deterioration of President Hugo Chavez have worked out an emergency plan to be implemented, including the suspension of basic constitutional rights, at the slightest sign of political agitations, said the former US ambassador before the OAS, Roger Noriega.
Saturday, April 14th 2012 - 06:21 UTC
Falklands veteran Royal Marine and yomper, feels Falklands are well defended

Retired Royal Marine Brigadier Ian Gardiner, who commanded a Marine company in the 1982 Falklands war, thinks a new Argentine attack on the Islands is unlikely.
Saturday, April 14th 2012 - 06:17 UTC
Ocampo drops out from World Bank bid; gives full support to Nigerian candidate

Former Colombian finance minister Jose Antonio Ocampo ended his bid to become World Bank president on Friday, leaving two candidates in an unprecedented challenge to US control of the global development institution.
Friday, April 13th 2012 - 07:30 UTC
Obama will not yield on drugs decriminalization and Cuba policies

US President Barack Obama arrives Friday night in Colombia for the sixth Summit of the Americas where he is expected to hang tough on Washington's anti-narcotics and Cuba policies, positions ever-more unpopular in a region drifting away from US dominance.
Friday, April 13th 2012 - 03:03 UTC
Cristina Fernandez and Obama will hold bilateral meeting in Colombia

Argentine president Cristina Fernandez leaves on Friday for Colombia to attend the two-day sixth Summit of the Americas where she is scheduled to hold a meeting with President Barack Obama on request from the White House, according to the Executive press office in Buenos Aires.
Friday, April 13th 2012 - 00:50 UTC
In three years the ‘Obama magic’ has turned irrelevant for most Latam leaders

Three years after being received by Latin American leaders as a super-star, US President Barack Obama faces scepticism and disappointment at this weekend’s Summit of the Americas for failing to meet promises of a new era in relations with the region.
Thursday, April 12th 2012 - 06:17 UTC
Hillary Clinton will be visiting Brazil after the Americas Summit in Colombia

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton confirmed she will be visiting Brazil next week following the Summit of the Americas scheduled for April 14/15 in Colombia. Her trip follows on the Brazilian president visit to the White House where both leaders, Dilma Rousseff and Barack Obama politely but unyielding kept to their positions.
Thursday, April 12th 2012 - 06:09 UTC
Brazil has become the fourth largest source of tourists to the US

Brazil ranks as the fourth largest source of overseas visitors to the United States with 1.5 million visits in 2011, which represents a 26% increase from 2010 said the State Department in a release. With these figures on the table “the Department of State is taking action to expand the already extensive ties between our nations”.
Thursday, April 12th 2012 - 01:04 UTC
US World Bank candidate tells board of directors he is not afraid of ‘challenging orthodoxies’

Jim Yong Kim, the US nominee to head the World Bank, told the bank's board of directors that he would not hesitate to question the status quo and do his best to help the world poorest.