UK “defies South America” when it denies Argentina Malvinas sovereignty
“Great Britain defies the whole of South America not allowing Argentina to patrol its own waters and denies South America the right to exercise sovereignty over a space which naturally belongs to her”, said ambassador Argüello during a conference at an Italian university to celebrate Argentina’s bicentennial. Read Article
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In order to reduce the sodium content in processed food groups, the Ministries of Health and Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of the Nation tomorrow will sign a framework agreement with the Coordinator of Food Industries (COPAL) in order Argentina’s population that decrease the amount of salt and, thus, influence is achieved on one of the […]
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In a new episode of tension between Argentina and Britain over the sovereignty of the Falklands, the Government reiterated tonight his “rejection of the British military presence in Argentine territory and maritime areas of the South Atlantic,” after he knew about the displacement of a warship to the area. Read Article
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The president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez , today described as “liar” a doctor who warned that the ruling only two years of life due to cancer being treated. “( Salvador Navarrete ) is a big liar. I laughed reading that interview. That gentleman I do not remember, “he said in relation to a doctor’s statement. […]
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Party government proposes to establish, by legislative decree, ceilings on grain prices of beans, rice, sugar and millet. The FMLN presented yesterday a piece of correspondence to the Legislature to enact “Transitional provisions for the stabilization of prices of basic grains and white sugar.”The Left Party wants than by legislative decree put “limits” to the […]
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Bolivians living in Spain who want to return to Bolivia may benefit from a voluntary return program in exchange for receiving the total unemployment benefits that have accrued while working, according to the website of Spanish newspaper DNA. On Tuesday, Bolivia and Spain signed the agreement Ibero-American Multilateral Social Security program that guarantees to return. […]
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Bolivian President Evo Morales, said today the unconditional solidarity of Cuba, despite being the country suffering a criminal U.S. blockade for more than five decades. In an act of recognition to the work of the island’s ambassador in La Paz, Rafael Dausa, who concludes his mission here, the officer acknowledged that with the support of […]
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Condemning the murders of three women journalists in Mexico over the past month, the United Nations agency that defends press freedom today pressed for stronger measures to halt the frequent violence against reporters in the Latin American country. “I urge the authorities to take all possible measures to improve the safety of journalists and bring […]
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The British government congratulated Argentine President Cristina Fernandez on her re-election and historic victory in Sunday’s polls but it also insisted that the sovereignty of the Falklands is “not negotiable”. “We congratulate Cristina Fernandez for her re-election as president of Argentina and look forward to work together in a wide range of global issues which […]
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With 41 candidates in local and regional elections killed, Colombians go the polls next Sunday after one of the most violent campaigns of recent years and the first with Juan Manuel Santos as president the country. The cases were documented by the Electoral Observation Mission (EOM), a private organization that collected in a report to […]
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Aborted highway project through TIPNIS, now Brazil’s government hopes the highway linking the departments of Cochabamba and Beni is realized at the mercy of an alternative route that satisfies all stakeholders. The construction of the road, valued three years ago at $ 415 million was awarded, precisely in 2008, Brazil’s OAS on the basis of […]
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People of other nationalities living in the territory of the city of Corrientes are voting for the first time in municipal elections which will be renewed nine councilmen. Thanks to an ordinance passed by the Legislative Council of Corrientes were granted this right to foreign nationals living in the capital of Corrientes, making it an […]
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THE ECONOMIST: WITHIN months of becoming Ecuador’s president in 2007, Rafael Correa (pictured) announced that he was working on antitrust legislation, pointing out that Ecuador was one of the few countries in South America without such a law. This August he introduced a bill that aimed to increase the market share of small and mid-sized […]
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An Ecuadorian delegation will travel this weekend to Washington next Tuesday to defend American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) regarding government policy to the press.The group, consisting of eight senior officials, is headed by the State Attorney General, Diego Garcia, and Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño said today the National Communication Secretariat of the Presidency. The […]
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Bolivia President Moves to Reroute TIPNIS Road Indigenous Bolivians from the National Park and Indigenous Territory Isiboro Secure (TIPNIS) won a major concession from President Evo Morales today. The President announced he would change the text of a proposed law so it prohibits construction of a controversial government-backed road planned through the TIPNIS. The new […]
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Tocuyito paralyzed Dialogue is broken in case of kidnapping Tocuyito jail between prisoners and authorities. Prisoners say the Ministry of Corrections and President Chavez as responsible for the situation. This Friday were frozen the negotiations between the inmates Tocuyito and national authorities. A total of 52 workers remain in captivity, as leverage to ensure compliance […]
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The surgeon Aulestia Salvador Navarrete was among a group of doctors who cared for the President in the Miraflores Palace before he trusted their health to the Cuban doctors. Given his experience, says that the president suffers from an aggressive malignant tumor of muscle origin lodged in the pelvis and said that life expectancy could […]
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The Venezuelan doctor Salvador Navarrete, said through a letter published by the newspaper TalCual his diagnosis was “presumptive” and that was the Mexican newspaper who published the interview with “a myriad of misrepresentations and elucunbraciones” El Salvador Navarrete Venezuelan doctor, who diagnosed that the life expectancy of President Hugo Chavez is two years due to […]
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With the coming to power of Hugo Chavez in relations between Iran and Venezuela have grown beyond the historical oil interests. Since 2005, when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became president, both countries stand together in defiance of Western conventions. Since Hugo Chavez took office began a steady rapprochement with Iran. From 1999 to 2007 were signed 86 […]
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President Rafael Correa decided yesterday, via executive decree, declaring the project construction zone Multi Chone (IHPM) in Rio Grande, Manabi, and security restricted area. Meanwhile, in the afternoon, villagers in the area weathered the policing and took possession of the land expropriated and the citizen Alfredo Zambrano last Tuesday where he played an eviction operation […]
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The Government of Veracruz corrected figures on kidnappings that had been forwarded to the National Public Security System (SNSP) and admitted that from January to September this year in the state have committed plagiarism and 29 non-zero, as had notified. The Executive Secretariat SNSP said Wednesday that Veracruz authorities reported new figures by electronic delivery […]
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“With the expropriations in the Sierra de Perija will infringe the sovereignty of the country” The former governor of Zulia state, Oswaldo Alvarez Paz, called “outrageous” a decision by the Supreme Court in the case of Leopoldo Lopez, where he maintains a ban on holding public office. He said that President Hugo Chavez placed outside […]
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A high-level delegation of the Chine4se Armed Forces will pay an official visit to Peru in November to strengthen ties in the field of defense, Peruvian Ambassador to China Gonzalo Gutierrez said. He noted that said visit seeks to boost bilateral relations between both countries’ armed forces and promote mechanisms of technological cooperation. Read Article
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Vice President of Ecuador, Lenin Moreno, subscribe today with President of Guatemala, Rafael Espada, a Memorandum of Understanding on Bilateral Cooperation on Disability and a Memorandum of Understanding for the “Fighting the Smuggling of Migrants and Victim” between the two countries. Guatemala is a new country that is advised by Manuela Espejo Mission to transfer […]
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Colombia and Ecuador ratified today its commitment to strengthen cooperation on border security to prevent criminals from both sides use the bilateral corridor as a backup. In this regard the Attorney General of Ecuador, Galo Chiriboga, visiting the country, told reporters that the goal is to fight together against criminals operating in the border. Read […]
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Commenting on the announcement by President Juan Manuel Santos to build a 7-star “environmentally friendly” hotel in Tayrona National Park, RCN Radio was able to establish that there are no studies for this project and that the project will have an impact on the environment. The studies to obtain the licenses to build the project […]
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It’s hard to know what the formula for an efficient and speedy justice. For the last representative in Cochabamba Judicial Council, which in 2012 will be the Judicial Council, Jhonny Butrón Ledezma have to go back in history to find the reasons that led to the administration of justice today is challenged and tested ways […]
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Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff wasted little time firing her top aide in May when the country’s biggest newspaper reported that he had received $4 million in unexplained income. Rousseff didn’t stop with her chief of staff. In quick succession, she let go of three other ministers publicly accused of everything from receiving kickbacks to charging […]
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The other Bolivia, multinational, commitment today to strengthen their institutions with a new administration of justice after popular elections, the day before, marked by the participation and new attacks opponents. Although the official results will be announced on 29 October, the opponents to the government and its media recording forward most votes null and blank, […]
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Colombian attorney aims to establish whether former officials and candidates in Antioquia, Córdoba and Chocó had link with the Elmer Cárdenas Bloc of the AUC, El Espectador reports. Read Article
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The newspaper Univerisal.com reported a group of people threw a tear gas bomb at a crowd gathered for a neighborhood tour for presidential candidte Henrique Capriles radonski. The incident occurred in El valle de Caracas before the candidate arrived, which was subsequently canceled. Read Article
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Caracas beat another unenviable record in August 2011, when 563 dead bodies were carried into the city’s Bello Monte morgue. 85% of them were murder victims. On the last weekend of the month, Venezuela’s capital saw one violent death an hour on average. While Latin Americans are shocked about massacres in Mexico and used to […]
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The bloody eruption of Mexican-led cartels into Guatemala is the latest chapter in a vicious cycle of violence and institutional failure. Geography has placed the country – midway between Colombia and the U.S. – at one of the world’s busiest intersections for illegal drugs. Cocaine (and now ingredients for synthetic drugs) flows in by air, […]
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The vice president of Ecuador, Lenin Moreno, and Guatemala, Rafael Espada, will sign next Wednesday in Quito, a memorandum of understanding for bilateral cooperation on disability, said the Ecuadorian government. Espada will visit Ecuador between 19 and 22 October, the Vice President said in a statement. This is a step in matters of cooperation after […]
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A Brazilian federal prosecutor filed a petition Thursday seeking to annul the residency visa granted to a former leftist rebel from Italy convicted in his homeland of four murders carried out in the late 1970s. Prosecutor Helio Heringer said the visa granted in June to Cesare Battisti should be annulled because it violates Brazil’s Foreigner’s […]
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President Hugo Chavez proposed the discussion today in the National Assembly a bill providing for the shooting down of aircraft suspected of drug trafficking when they ignore the order to land. The Venezuelan leader said in a televised speech that the law would aim to discourage those flights in Venezuelan territory. Addressing deputies in a […]
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Thursday that “on Monday” in Cuba will undergo a medical examination to “rigorous” to check your body’s response to chemotherapy treatment that was submitted to slow the cancer that was detected. Read Article
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Hugo Chavez asked the authorities a quick review of the control you have companies like Coca Cola and Pepsi Cola on the distribution of drinking water in Venezuela. Statement that has privatized the water sector and said it would take urgent action. For they opened a distribution of mineral water 65% cheaper than that offered […]
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Indigenous groups, peasants, students and environmentalists in the province of Veraguas took the date of the meeting yesterday of America to make their rejection of the establishment of hydroelectric projects and mining in their communities. The march started from the Parish of San Juan de Canto Llano, traveled Tenth Street, where two panels closed for […]
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Emerging Threats and Security in the Western Hemisphere Press Release: US State Department Next Steps for U.S. Policy Testimony William R. Brownfield Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Statement before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Washington, DC October 13, 2011 ________________________________________ As delivered Madam Chairman, Ranking Member, ladies and gentlemen of […]
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Indigenous peoples demand the government to avail the constitutional mandates of human rights and free, prior, and informed consent, El Espectador reports. The Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca (CRIC) called for a march on the Panamerican Highway in order to protest against the extraction of gold in mines located in the protected zones of Canoas […]
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Defense Minister, Juan Carlos Pinzón and senior military and police phased out a new strategy to prevent child recruitment by illegal group, El Espectador reports. This strategy is part of the Program for Humanitarian Attention to Demobilized peoples from the Ministry of Defense. So far this year (2011), more than 1,200 guerrilla fighters have demobilized, […]
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The Ecuadorian Minister of Foreign Affairs in office of Ecuador, Kintto Lucas, announced today that his country considers whether to leave the Andean Community (CAN) before the end of the year by various problems, including trade issues. “Ecuador has decided to explore the possibility of leaving the CAN before the end of year,” he told […]
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The one-year investigation led the Colombian police to locate 10 members of the main structure of the Clandestine Communist Party of the FARC, known as the PC3, Caracol News reports. The police say that these suspects are directly related to the infiltration of student protests in Bogotá, Barrancabermeja, Cali and Bucaramanga. Read Article
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President Evo Morales said Tuesday that with the purchase of six K-8 aircraft made in China for the fight against drug trafficking and other tasks, a technological revolution began in the Force Air, which celebrated the 88th anniversary of foundation. In a ceremony held in the Air Brigade of the city of El Alto, the […]
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In an unprecedented action, a six German parliamentarians announced their decision to recommend conditional cooperation with El Salvador until that country to implement an effective program to combat violence and impunity that plague the people of this Central American nation. During the Civil War (1980-1992), governments Washington and some European countries support conditions continued to […]
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Murder and Politics in Mexico: Political Killings in the Political Killings in the Partido de la Revolucion Democratica and its Consequences – Recorded interview with author Dr. Sara Schatz (Recording Time- 01:13:53) Recorded October 07, 2011. Publisher: Springer, 2011, Volume 10 in Studies of Organized Crime. PURCHASE BOOK:Murder and Politics in Mexico: Political Killings in […]
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Colombia’s president Juan Manuel Santos called on congress to approve a legislation draft that seeks to give a legal ground to the process of reintegration to demobilized rebel fighters, El Espectador reports. Santos warned on Wednesday October 5, 2001 that if the project is not approved at least 25,000 reinserted rebels could join illegal groups […]
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The House of Representatives rejected on Monday October 3, 2011 a bill to reform post-secondary education in Colombia, El Tiempo reports. Colombia’s education Minister, Maria Fernanda Campo, said that the government seeks to improve the quality of higher education and to make it more accessible, especially for poor young people. She also said that the […]
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Colombia’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Maria Angela Holguin, reiterated Colombia’s position of creating a Palestinian state, insisting that Israelis and Palestinians must hold “direct negotiations”, El Espectador reports. According to diplomatic sources, Abbas will ask Colombia’s president Juan Manuel Santos to reconsider his country’s position before the Security Council of the United Nations where Colombia is […]
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The Colombian Superintendence of Notaries and Registration exposed the magnitude of land theft in Los Llanos, Colombia, El Tiempo reports. The land theft is greater than initially calculated. There were not 187,000 hectares as initially calculated, but at least 211 000 hectares, according to the latest report from the Colombian Superintendence of Notaries and Registration. […]
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The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, announced the next shipment of a tax reform bill to the National Assembly, which will include tax ‘green’ and adjustments to capital outflows. “As soon as the process is finished (the project), send as urgent tax reform law, the taxes ‘green’, some adjustment to other taxes such as capital […]
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The foreign ministers of Venezuela, Pakistan, Belarus and Malaysia have expressed their governments’ support to the Syrian regime in the context of what they consider a de-legitimization campaign orchestrated by the West, according to the Syrian news agency, SANA. At the end of the 66th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations in […]
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According to El Nuevo Herald, newspaper of enormous influence in the Hispanic community in Miami, the president presents a picture of aplastic anemia, the disappearance of the cells responsible for blood production in the bone marrow, which was complicating its medical. Bone marrow aplasia may be total, affecting the production of white blood cells like […]
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Buenaventura is accustomed to violent death and, ultimately, increases the number of bodies, because there are vendettas between the FARC and a band called ‘the Company’, composed of former guerrillas and former paramilitaries, who decided to steal a packet of dollars (product of other packages coca), which claims ‘Mincho’, leader of the front 30. Read […]
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Cuba has authorised auto sales among individuals easing a 50-year-old ban that has helped make the island a living museum of vintage cars.Until now, Cubans have only been permitted to sell each other vehicles built before the country’s 1959 revolution, which has given long life to the U.S chrome and fin-tail antiques that swarmed pre-revolutionary […]
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A senior Brazilian police officer has been arrested on suspicion of ordering the murder of a judge who investigated police corruption. Lt Col Claudio Luiz de Oliveira was detained Tues Sept 27 here and arrest orders have been issues for at least six other policemen in the city(Rio). Prosecutors say Col Oliveira ordered the killing […]
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China is the undisputed new actor in international politics. It is not only courted the country to come to the aid of the dying economy of European countries, but its policy is becoming more welcome in a world that watches American decline accelerates and Western. China’s foreign policy is the implementation of a political and […]
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Venezuela ratifies dialogue in defense of their interests in state bordering Guyana The Venezuelan government issued a statement Monday through which reiterates that, in line with its foreign policy, defend their interests, respecting the friendship and solidarity that keeps all the peoples of Latin America and Caribbean, at the request recently submitted by the Republic […]
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Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez has said he is recovering “favorably” the fourth cycle of chemotherapy, the latter which has been submitted as part of cancer treatment, but has admitted that his physical strength is “a little diminished “. Read Article
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There is no doubt that opening the borders without restrictions was a cause of increased crime in the correísta regime with the introduction of new forms of violence and corruption as the crime of hired killers and mafia networks that administer the nationalization of foreign and trafficking in persons. It is not enough that here […]
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President Rafael Correa, the leftist leader of Ecuador, took on the media on Friday at the home of one of journalism’s pinnacles, Columbia University in New York.The school awards the Cabot Prizes, journalism’s oldest, which honor the best and most courageous reporters covering the Americas. Oh, and let’s not forget the Pulitizer Prizes. Read Press
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Tens of thousands of classified documents from Colombia’s intelligence agency have been sold to illegal armed groups, foreign governments and drug traffickers, according to the Colombian magazine La Semana. The massive sale of secret documents by agents working for the state intelligence agency, known as DAS, is the largest intelligence leak in Colombia’s history, the […]
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The Brazilian government gave the green light to build in the Amazon region of Belo Monte megapresa. He argues that the country needs to produce more electricity to power its booming economic development. But experts say Brazilian and foreign irreparable damage this will cause to the environment and habitat destruction of Aboriginal communities that are […]
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The Ministry of the Interior, through the National Police, is blocking all possible routes of entry and exit of supplies and drugs in the Valley of the Apurimac and Ene Rivers (VRAE), today announced the headline of this portfolio, Oscar Valdés. The Interior Minister, Oscar Valdes led the burning of more than 6 tons of […]
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China Vice Premier Hui Liangyu, arrived Wednesday evening at Santa Cruz, Bolivia, where on Thursday will meet with President Evo Morales and Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera, as part of an agenda marked by trade and the integration of both countries. Hui Liangyu arrived at Viru Viru airport to the local 22h00 (2h00 GMT on […]
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China will allocate 1,000 million dollars in preferential loans to support economic development of countries in the Caribbean. Es la primera vez que lo hace fuera de Cuba. It is the first time I made out of Cuba. Chinese Vice Quishan Wang said that “China can not develop isolated from the world and the world […]
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This monograph examines Chinese military engagement with Latin America in five areas: (1) meetings between senior military officials; (2) lower-level military-to-military interactions; (3) military sales; (4) military-relevant commercial interactions; and, (5) Chinese physical presence within Latin America, all of which have military-strategic implications. This monograph finds that the level of PRC military engagement with the […]
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While he is being investigated for possible misconduct to facilitate the operation of casinos improperly installed in Nuevo Leon, the Federal Judiciary Council yesterday suspended a judge from Saltillo.Read Article
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Russia, Belarus and Latvia (former countries of the former Soviet Union) have asked Ecuador to extradite nine fugitives who are wanted by the International Police (Interpol). Six Russians are required for alleged fraud, murder, drug trafficking and belonging to organized crime groups. One of them is M. Myasnikov, who was arrested on July 6, with […]
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After Moctezuma – Indigenous Politics and Self-Government in Mexico City, 1524-1730 – Recorded interview with author Dr. William F. Connell (Recording Time- 01:22:45) Recorded September 16, 2011. University of Oklahoma Press PURCHASE BOOK:After Moctezuma: Indigenous Politics and Self-government in Mexico City, 1524-1730 The first study of indigenous political dynamics in Tenochtitlan after the Spanish […]
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key documents that compromise national security and strategic operations of undercover life have been sold to the guerrillas, drug traffickers and foreign governments. Much of the information in this organization with the true identities of its agents, the names and trades used as fronts, the missions assigned to them, the targets that spies, the names […]
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The Ecuador defense minister, Javier Ponce, confirmed today that negotiations to buy Russian military equipment including helicopters, armored vehicles and trucks, which are not acquisitions of “war material”, he said. Ponce revealed that between these teams including portable bridges, mobile workshops and specified that the helicopters are four Mi rescue and transport.Read Article
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China announced on Monday it will provide $1 billion in loans to Caribbean countries to finance infrastructure projects as it deepens ties in a region historically linked with the United States. The loans will be made available through the state-run China Development Bank, China’s Vice Premier Wang Qishan told a meeting of Caribbean and Chinese […]
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The Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro has accused U.S. today of “blackmailing the world” in the fight against drug trafficking and being both a promoter of trade and consumption of narcotics. “If someone has failed and, rather than failure, have become promoters of the drug culture, violence, trafficking and consumption there is, in America,” Maduro […]
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Military patrols were conducting counterinsurgency operations in the region of Junín when rebels fired on the aircraft. Two army officers shot killed Wednesday in a rebel attack on the rebel group Shining Path against a military helicopter in an area wracked country, the joint command of the armed forces. Read Article
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The consul of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the Dominican Republic, Jose Luis Rangel, reported yesterday that the Venezuelan consul in Port-au-Prince was the victim of a robbery in the country on Monday night.Rangel confirmed to Diario Libre that Marcos Villegas was assaulted on the Sanchez Highway in the area near Yaguate in the […]
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Tambopata National Reserve in Madre de Dios is seriously compromised by the excessive growth of illegal mining in the area in more than 15 miles from the Inter-Oceanic Highway, damaging agricultural and forest concessionaires whose lands have been invaded reaching lose because the violent invasion. Rep. of the department of Madre de Dios Peru Earn […]
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Tuesday that “very likely” need to undergo in the coming days for a fourth cycle of chemotherapy to tackle the cancer that was detected and hoped that this will be the last before his “full recovery”. Read Article
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After Monte Alban a ritual involving the members of the Peace Caravan, Javier Sicilia noted that the San Andrés agreements are pending in the nation and that he signed the former President Ernesto Zedillo on behalf of the country, “and as we are not traitors, we come to demand that autonomy and respect. They said […]
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EMOL.com reported that U.S. ambassador to Brazil, Thomas Shannon, said the country suffered from “widespread corruption” in a diplomatic cable written over a year and a half, during the government of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, recently released by the WikiLeaks site. “The persistent and widespread corruption affects all three branches of government,” Shannon wrote […]
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With less seriously injured after being hit by a bullet ended in Chile gears with incidents that took place yesterday to commemorate 38 years of the 1973 military coup that ousted then-President Salvador Allende, said the government of President Sebastián Piñera.The deputy interior minister, Rodrigo Ubilla, also reported that there were 280 prisoners and 40 […]
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A candidate for the Council of Palmira, department of Valle was killed by gunmen, while a councilman Buenaventura escaped death in a similar attack in clashes over the weekend. The council Palmira contender for the Party of National Integration, PIN, Jaine Narvaez Jose Grajales, 33, was shot to death by two men who broke into […]
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Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón, said Monday that presidential orders seek to meet with their counterparts in Venezuela and Ecuador to seek a cooperative approach: “The order is dialogue with my counterparts in Venezuela, Ecuador and other nations and obviously expect to work in a cooperative attitude, that’s the attitude we have and that’s the […]
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The massive evictions of 800 families from 14 communities in Guatemala’s Polochic Valley, removing peasant agriculture in order to install the Chabil Utzaj sugar plantation, began on March 15, 2011. When we heard, we were surprised. Not because we have any illusions about the benevolence of the Guatemalan government or the oligarchy it serves, but […]
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Peru’s Supreme Court has reduced to 19 years the prison sentence of a brother of President Ollanta Humala who was convicted of leading a 2005 military uprising that left four police officers dead. Read Report
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Panamanian political and union leaders opposed to the government of Ricardo Martinelli agreed to unite to face the right-wing leader, facing a crisis in their ranks and a slump in the polls. A diverse group of politicians, former officials, MPs, trade unionists and former activists against the dictatorship of Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega in the […]
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Reporters Without Borders, an international organization that defends freedom of expression, recently referred to the mounting tension between you and some of the privately-owned media, tension that was exacerbated by the daily El Universo’s prosecution at your request. We fear that this polarization could affect not only editorial pluralism but also the needed debate about […]
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Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman stated today Argentina and China “are building a strategic relationship,” highlighting “positive investment activity” within bilateral connections, as he was heading a dinner with powerful Chinese executives, during his first activity on his China visit. Read Article
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A surprise visit by Bill Richardson, New Mexico’s former governor, has revived hope that Cuba may soon free a US government subcontractor whose imprisonment has snarled efforts to improve relations between the two countries, with a senior Cuban official praising the American politician yesterday and describing the jailed Alan Gross as a victim. Read Article
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After 26 years of civilian governments in Guatemala, a soldier could return to power, according to the survey agree that place retired Gen. Otto Perez as favorite to win Sunday’s election. Pérez Molina, nominated by the rightist Partido Patriota (PP), the main opposition, be heading to victory in the race for the presidency of Guatemala, […]
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For years, Ecuador has experienced symptoms of climate change such as melting glaciers, but successive governments take adequate preventive measures to face on several fronts and actions in the medium and long terms. The aftermath that the country suffers from this global phenomenon are analyzed in the 151 251 Cable , the April 24, 2008 […]
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A delegation of the Communist Party of Viet Nam headed by Deputy Director of the Party Central Committee’s Office Hoang Cong Hoan attended events in Brasilia , Brazil from Sept. 1-4. The Vietnamese delegation attended an international seminar on the situation in Latin America and upcoming presidential elections on Sept. 1 and the extraordinary congress […]
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President Republic Bolivarian Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez warned the world and the people on the claims of NATO to invade the sovereignty of Venezuela. In this regard, he recalled in a recent speech by U.S. President Barack Obama would ensure that “Libya method could be applied to any other country in the fight against terrorism.” Read […]
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According to an international study by Ipsos, half of Argentines negatively evaluated the arrival of foreigners to settle in the country. In addition, 61% believe that immigrants finding employment difficult for the natives and complicate access to public services. Counter to this view, Brazil is the country that better agrees. Specialists are saying. Most of […]
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Recorded between 48 and 57 murders per 100,000 people, depending on who makes the measurement. August wrote himself with red blood in the streets of Caracas, where 563 people died (more than 85 percent killed) in the most violent month of this year and could end up running around the country with more than 19 […]
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The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, yesterday appointed its current coordinating minister of Production, Employment and Competitiveness, Nathalie Cely, as the new ambassador to the United States. The appointment comes after that Quito and Washington withdrew their respective ambassadors in April following a dispute over a U.S. Cable booked on alleged corruption in the Ecuadorian […]
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The rumors that Mr. Rivera was on his way out had been swirling for months, and each time leftist rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) made a bold attack on government forces or neo-paramilitary groups massacred an entire family those rumors grew louder. Amid mounting concern that Colombia was backsliding in security, […]
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Ecuador does not intend to recognise Libya’s rebel national council as the new government in Tripoli, Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said Thursday. “Of course not,” Patino said when asked about recognising the Transitional National Council, the rebel body that has taken control of Libya from strongman Muammar Gaddafi. Read Article
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AFTER narrowly winning a divisive presidential election, Ollanta Humala has got off to an unexpectedly calm start as Peru’s president. A former army officer without any government experience, he has moved quickly to implement some of his campaign promises: his government has negotiated a new tax on mining companies and pushed through a law requiring […]
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