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Monday, February 8, 2010 - 00:00
The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), a British research institute focusing on international security, revealed that Russia in 2009 became the main exporter of weapons to Latin America thanks to the purchases made by Venezuela, but als
Friday, February 5, 2010 - 00:00
Chilean president Michelle Bachelet promulgated this week a bill with sweeping changes in the Defence ministry and Armed Forces structure including the creation of a post equivalent to that of chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 - 00:00
A group of one-time loyalists and close advisors of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez called on him to resign saying that after eleven years in power he had lost "the legitimacy and capacity to govern."
Monday, February 1, 2010 - 00:00
"The economic situation in Cuba has turned rather complicated with signs that it is close to free fall," the Havana Archdiocese said in the latest edition of its "Palabra Nueva" (New Word) magazine.
Monday, February 1, 2010 - 00:00
The institutional crisis facing Argentina remains open in spite of the resignation of the Central Bank president Martin Perez Redrado and is centred on whether the Executive can put its hands on the international reserves to pay sovereign debt.
Monday, February 1, 2010 - 00:00
Uruguay's 2009 fiscal budget deficit soared to its highest since 2003 pushed by higher power generation costs and the import of dearer energy according to the official release from the Ministry of Finance. The total is equivalent to 2.1% of GDP and 50% hi
Monday, February 1, 2010 - 00:00
Argentina's former president Nestor Kirchner purchased two million US dollars just a few days after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 which triggered the current world downturn and when the government of President Cristina Fernandez de Kir
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 - 00:00
Arturo Valenzuela begins in Brazil a tour of the four Mercosur full member countries (Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay)
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 - 00:00
The agreement which would allow the deployment of a limited number of US troops in seven Colombian bases to help gather intelligence to counter drugs operations and terrorism, has been respected as a “sovereign decision” by Chile, Paraguay, Peru and U