The Plank (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Francisco Toro and Juan Nagel write the Venezuelan news blog Caracas Chronicles . The Honduran crisis surely reached its Rococo stage this week after fresh elections organized by the coupsters' regime saw the election of a conservative rancher as president—while Brazil's nearly sainted left-wing president, Lula da Silva, promptly rejected the poll as undemocratic ... a scant few days after welcoming...
Caracas Chronicles (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... is leading the guys with the pitchforks, a group that includes our very own Hugo Chávez, Cristina Kirchner, Michelle Bachelet and the OAS. That Brazil's Lula da Silva has refused to recognize this election when, just last week, he embraced the illegitimate Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks volumes about his idea of democracy. Lula's stance toward Lobo is even more hypocritical given...
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
The presidents of Chile and Argentina marked Saturday with Pope Benedict XVI the 25th anniversary of a peace treaty signed between the former dictators of their countries with papal mediation. The pope told Michelle Bachelet and Cristina Kirchner that the treaty, which averted a looming border war, showed that "perseverance is always needed ... to resolve differences by means of...
Leftnews.org (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
“Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his Argentine counterpart Cristina Kirchner have both voiced their rejection to the elections in Honduras. Lula says, “The elections to be held on Nov. 29 will not be recognized and (otherwise) a very dangerous precedent will be set.”"
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Argentine President Cristina Kirchner on Monday urged the United States to "do more" to restart Israeli-Palestinian negotiations as she held talks with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas. "The United States could do more than it is doing" to relaunch negotiations between the two sides, Kirchner told a joint press conference with Abbas in Buenos Aires. "We...
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas began an official visit to Argentina Sunday that includes a meeting with President Cristina Kirchner to discuss the Middle East, just days after a visit by Israeli President Shimon Peres. "President Abbas' visit brings the opportunity of exchanging views on the Middle East situation, the state of Palestinian-Israeli talks and the possibility of Argentina...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva and his Argentine counterpart Cristina Kirchner said on Wednesday that they would not recognize the results of the elections to be organized by the post-coup de facto government in Honduras. The two had a working meeting in Brasilia and issued a joint statement afterward. Da Silva and Kirchner said that Jose Manuel Zelaya, the Honduran...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva and his Argentine counterpart Cristina Kirchner said on Wednesday that they would not recognize the results of the elections to be organized by the post-coup de facto government in Honduras. The two had a working meeting in Brasilia and issued a joint statement afterward. Da Silva and Kirchner said that Jose Manuel Zelaya, the Honduran...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
The president of Argentina, Cristina Kirchner, will pay an official visit to Brasilia on Wednesday, where she will discuss a solution to the growing commercial differences between both countries with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The trade dispute began late last year, when Argentina began to require non-automatic licensing to a range of Brazilian products, affecting...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
The president of Argentina, Cristina Kirchner, will pay an official visit to Brasilia on Wednesday, where she will discuss a solution to the growing commercial differences between both countries with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The trade dispute began late last year, when Argentina began to require non-automatic licensing to a range of Brazilian products, affecting...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Israeli President Shimon Peres arrived in Argentina, home to Latin America's biggest Jewish community, on Sunday for a two-day visit. He was met at the airport by Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana and was scheduled to meet Argentine President Cristina Kirchner on Monday. Peres' visit came as the Palestinian authority said it would request UN recognition of an independent Palestine...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Israeli President Shimon Peres arrived in Argentina, home to Latin America's biggest Jewish community, on Sunday for a two-day visit. He was met at the airport by Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana and was scheduled to meet Argentine President Cristina Kirchner on Monday. Peres' visit came as the Palestinian authority said it would request UN recognition of an independent Palestine...
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Israeli President Shimon Peres arrived in Argentina, home to Latin America's biggest Jewish community, Sunday for a two-day visit and meeting with President Cristina Kirchner, just ahead of a planned visit by Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas. Peres was greeted on arrival here by Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana. He is scheduled to meet Kirchner on Monday. The 1994 Nobel Peace prize...
Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
... in 2005; the following year Portia Simpson Miller became Jamaica's prime minister; and in 2007, Cristina Kirchner became president of Argentina by popular mandate. In barely two years, from 2005 to 2007, the number of women holding posts as ministers in Latin America rose from 15 per cent to 24 per cent of the total, the IDB noted. "The presence of women in the legislative branches...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
... to recognize their independence. The Israeli president is scheduled to meet his counterpart Cristina Kirchner on Monday. Kirchner has been pushing for fresh negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians and has strongly condemned the illegal Israeli settlement policy in the occupied territories. Peres' visit to Argentina, home to Latin America's biggest Jewish community,...
