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Brazil again delays fighter jet contract; France rapidly losing ground in the bid
Monday, December 16, 2013 - 00:00
France's 4 billion dollars proposal for 36 Rafale fighter jets, from a consortium led by French giant Dassault, will be shot down for cost reason.
In a further step to normalize relations Paraguay names new ambassador to Venezuela
Wednesday, October 30, 2013 - 00:00
Paraguay has named veteran diplomat Enrique Jara as new ambassador in Venezuela, giving a further step towards the full normalization of relations that had been interrupted since July 2012.
Brazil's middle and high classes support spontaneous street protests
Tuesday, October 29, 2013 - 00:00
However among the group of Sao Paulo residents making 700 dollars or less per month, support rate drops to 54% (26 percentage points less that the richest).
Brazilian ex-president to be exhumed to determine if he was poisoned by the military regime
Tuesday, October 29, 2013 - 00:00
Popularly known as "Jango", Goulart served as president from 1961-1964 and was ousted in a military coup. He took refuge in Uruguay and Argentina, where he died on 6 December, 1976.
Argentine government retains congress; Massa and Macri confirm 2015 presidential ambition
Monday, October 28, 2013 - 00:00
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez's governing bloc held onto control of Congress in Sunday's mid-term elections, but the results also confirmed the emergence of a new group of powerful leaders.
Brazil confident Paraguay will be returning to Mercosur before the end of the year
Monday, October 21, 2013 - 00:00
Brazil trusts Paraguay will fully return to Mercosur before the end of the year, said Brazil's Executive foreign policy advisor Marco Aurelio Garcia.
Bolivian president claims US and Pacific Alliance conspiring to divide UNASUR
Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 00:00
"I want to tell you that the US is trying to split Unasur. The countries of the Pacific alliance are part of a major conspiration coming from the north to divide us."
New editors for leading Cuban newspapers: "too much triumphalism and too apologetic"
Thursday, October 10, 2013 - 00:00
The new editor of Granma - Pelayo Terry - is seen as less of a hardliner than his predecessor.
As Cristina Fernandez evolves favourably, debate targets acting-president Boudou
Thursday, October 10, 2013 - 00:00
The political debate on Wednesday has centred on Vice-president and acting president Amado Boudou whom the opposition argue should not lead the country given his questionable credentials and mounting legal problems.
Rousseff reminds Cartes that Paraguay belongs to Mercosur and is strategic for Brazil
Thursday, October 3, 2013 - 00:00
President Rousseff was rather insistent that the presence of Paraguay in Mercosur "has a very important significance at this moment" and underlined that landlocked Paraguay "will always be a strategic country" for Brazil.

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