MercoPress
Wednesday, July 18, 2012 - 00:00
Peruvian President Ollanta Humala has begun sounding out replacements for his prime minister as part of a widely expected Cabinet shuffle designed to calm a wave of violent anti-mining protests.
Tuesday, July 17, 2012 - 00:00
Argentina is short of foreign currency and needs the dollars to honour maturing debt and to pay for imports.
Monday, July 16, 2012 - 00:00
The influential British business and politics magazine The Economist anticipates that following the latest decisions by Mercosur, the South American group has little if any future.
Monday, July 16, 2012 - 00:00
Last Friday the defence ministers from Argentina and Venezuela signed in the port of La Guaira on board Argentina’s tall ship ARA Libertad a memorandum of understanding.
Friday, July 13, 2012 - 00:00
The Brazilian official said he had been in contact with US State Secretary Hillary Clinton over the issue, who stated her deep concern about the "absence of an ample right to defence" for former president Lugo.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012 - 00:00
The Organization of American States Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza said that to suspend Paraguay from the OAS "would not contribute to the achievement of our objectives", governance, the electoral process and institutional normality.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012 - 00:00
The Organization of American States should not suspend Paraguay for impeaching its president because doing so would only isolate the country and create more problems, the group’s secretary general said Tuesday.
Monday, July 9, 2012 - 00:00
President Hugo Chavez said he will be attending at the end of July the coming Mercosur meeting in Brasil when Venezuela will officially become the group's fifth full member.
Friday, June 29, 2012 - 00:00
Argentina was the most radical to the extent it wanted ousted president Fernando Lugo to sit at the Mercosur summit and implement other sanctions.
Thursday, June 28, 2012 - 00:00
With his back turned towards the Government House and in front of some 50.000 workers (according to the teamsters union) or 25.000 (according to the police), Moyano slammed the president.