The president of El Salvador, Mauricio Funes, said yesterday that the visit to the country of his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama shows that his government defeated the disinformation campaign and gain the confidence of the U.S., a country considered “as a second home “for Salvadorans. Funes, who became the first leftist president in the country, [...]
Obama will arrive at 12:45 noon at El Salvador International Airport in Comalapa, where he and his family will be greeted by Foreign Minister Hugo Martínez and students of the School United States of America. The U.S. president and his family are expected to reach the presidential palace at 1:40 in the afternoon, which will [...]
The U.S. president prepares to visit the region with the highest global rate of homicides, according to the UN, and one of the “preferred route” for drug cartels that ship drugs into the U.S. Central American governments say they are making efforts to fight crime that plagues the region, despite this, the facts show that [...]
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SANTIAGO .- There were no announcements about economic and social aid to Latin America, as proposed by John F. Kennedy in 1961, but a strong call to work together on an equal partnership between the U.S. and all countries of the region. That was the main focus for the Americas of Obama´s awaited speech delivered [...]
In spite of the japanese nuclear crisis, and the fact that nuclear energy is less popular than ever in Chile, the U.S. President and the President of Chile signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the cooperation on the peaceful uses of Nuclear Energy. However, the chilean President Piñera said that “Chile will not build any [...]
SANTIAGO, Chile — Spoking alongside chilean President Sebastián Piñera at the presidential palaca La Moneda in Santiago de Chile, the U.S. President Barack H. Obama on Monday praised Chile’s vibrant democracy and open society. Obama is midway through a three-country Latin American swing that’s being overshadowed by the battle for Libya’s future. Obama took questions [...]
President Barack Obama made a strong pitch for the Boeing (stock BA.N) F-18 jet fighter in a meeting with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, but she did not indicate if her government had decided to buy the U.S.-made plane, the White House said on Sunday. “The F-18 issue did come up. President Rousseff raised it,” White [...]
Maria del Carmen Alanis, Judge President of the Judicial Electoral Tribunal of the Federation (TEPJF), said that the discussion on organized crime in political campaigns and elections can not be set aside because it is “a difficult situation “requiring analysis prior to the 2012 electoral process. “For many, the real threat to the policy [...]
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SECRETARY CLINTON (*): There is a lot going on around the world and much that demands our urgent attention from the historic changes in the Middle East and North Africa where I just was yesterday to the tragedy unfolding in Japan. But as I often say, we have to deal with both the urgent [...]
The United States seeks to promote four interconnected and broadly-shared goals in the hemisphere: expanded economic and social opportunity; citizen safety for all peoples; effective, democratic governance and institutions; and a clean energy future for the hemisphere. U.S. foreign assistance is designed to further these goals, while it also leverages emerging economic opportunities and local [...]