Politics

• Monday, January 15th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Mercosur in a “crisis situation”, but it is part of the process

  

  Former Brazilian president Jose Sarney, (1985/1990) admitted that Mercosur was undergoing a “crisis situation” but it's something normal to the development of a customs' union.

• Sunday, January 14th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Ecuador's Correa manages support for reform plans

  

  Ecuadorian elected President Rafael Correa, flanked by Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Bolivia's Evo Morales announced Sunday that “a new day is dawning” promising to rule for the indigenous, the migrants and the excluded.

• Sunday, January 14th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Windy royal visit to the Falklands followed by minor storm in Antarctica

  

  The prediction of bad weather to come in the Antarctic over the next few days has led to a shortening of the visit of the Princess Royal to the Falkland Islands. Taking advantage of a “weather window” the Princess will fly at 6pm today, Sunday, directly from Stanley to the British base at Rothera in the Antarctic in a De Havilland Dash 7 aircraft, belonging to the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). This flight was originally planned to take place on Monday morning.

• Sunday, January 14th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Fragile truce in Bolivia but with no solution on sight

  

  A fragile truce between supporters and opponents of Bolivian president Evo Morales helped restore some normality to the city of Cochabamba, in central Bolivia, where four days of rioting left two dead and over a hundred injured.

• Sunday, January 14th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Iranian president visits Latinamerica's “US critics club”

  

  Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad currently on a visit to the three Latinamerican countries most vocal critics of United States said on Sunday that Nicaragua and Iran share “common interests, common enemies and common goals”

• Sunday, January 14th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Psychiatric tests to decide Peron's wife extradition

  

  Former Argentine president Maria Estela Martinez de Peron, 75, will undergo psychiatric tests to determine whether the absences and mental fragility exposed before a Spanish judge were real or “simulated” to avoid extradition.

• Sunday, January 14th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Pulp mills dispute moves again to The Hague

  

  Argentina will formally present Monday before the International Court of The Hague the full background of its case against Uruguay for having unilaterally authorized the location of pulp mills along the river Uruguay which is regulated by a joint statute dating back to 1975.

• Saturday, January 13th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Former Argentine president arrested in Madrid

  

  Spanish police arrested Friday former Argentine president Maria Estela Martinez de Peron, 75, in her home in Madrid over the disappearance of a leftist activist in 1976.

• Saturday, January 13th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Communist Vietnam joins WTO and promises privatizations

  

  Vietnam became this week the 150th member of the World Trade Organization. U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab welcomed Vietnam into the WTO saying this is an historic day for Vietnam and the rules-based global trading system.

• Thursday, January 11th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Britain's Princess Anne to Visit Chile

  

  Chile receives its fair share of high-profile visitors, from heads of state, to world famous rock musicians to Hollywood movie stars. Rarely, though, does the country play host to true royalty, much less to a key member of Great Britain's House of Windsor.