Security
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 00:00
BUENOS AIRES --
Facing the biggest crisis since filling the seat vacated by her husband, President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner announced Tuesday that a grain export tax increase that has unleashed months of protests by farmers will be debated by Congr
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 00:00
LIMA, Peru --
Protesters blockading Peru's southern Pan-American Highway on Tuesday released 47 police hostages they were holding, clearing the way for talks with the government on their demand of a greater share of the region's mine revenues.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 00:00
El presidente de Uruguay, Tabare Vazquez, inicio hoy miercoles una visita a Cuba que incluye conversaciones con su homologo Raul Castro y un encuentro de empresarios.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 00:00
El proyecto permitiria unir las ciudades de Los Andes, en Chile y Mendoza, en Argentina, conectadas ahora por el Paso Los Libertadores
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 00:00
Por segundo dia consecutivo el presidente Felipe Calderon aseguro que la lucha en contra de la delincuencia organizada no es solo tarea del gobierno, sino del Estado, porque lo que esta en juego no es la seguridad de los gobernantes, sino de la ciuda
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 00:00
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - President Cristina Fernandez told thousands of supporters Wednesday that a three-month strike against grain export-tax hikes was undemocratic and demanded that farmers lift road blockades that have caused food shortages across Ar
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 00:00
Ecuadorian authorities have done little to stop the killings or the encroachment of the modern world into the last refuges of these "uncontacted" people.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 00:00
I rise today to praise the efforts of Congresswoman Yvette Clarke with regard to the bipartisan resolution that addresses crime in the Caribbean.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 00:00
BUENOS AIRES --
Thousands of Argentines poured into the streets late Monday, banging pots and honking car horns to demand the government resume talks to end a 100-day farmers strike that has blocked grain exports and emptied supermarket shelves of food.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 00:00
MEXICO CITY -- Farmers are mad enough to throw, well, rotten tomatoes at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which is focusing heavily on Mexico as a potential source of the fruit that has sickened hundreds of people in the United States with salmonell