Carlos Tevez jail fear: Striker could face six months after motoring arrest

The Argentina international, who was given a six-month driving ban in January, was questioned at a police station in Macclesfield on Thursday night after he was caught speeding.It is a blow for Tevez who was quoted in last week’s Sunday Times saying: “There's the Tevez before, who had a problem, and there's the Tevez now, who no longer has problems."A spokesperson for Cheshire Police said:  "At 5.13pm on Thursday 7 March police arrested a 29-year-old man from Alderley Edge on the A538 in Macclesfield Read more [...]

Carlos Tevez arrested after driving while disqualified: Reports

Sponsored link: Donate now. Save tax Manchester: Argentina striker Carlos Tevez has been arrested for allegedly driving while disqualified and if he is charged and found guilty he could be sentenced to up to six months in prison, according to British media reports. The 29-year-old Manchester City player, who was banned from driving in January, was stopped by police driving in Macclesfield near Manchester on Thursday.Cheshire police said in a statement: "At 5.13pm on Thursday March 7 Read more [...]

Falklanders hope referendum sends message

2013-03-08 11:08 A View of Port Stanley, in the Falkland Islands. (Martin Bernetti, AFP) Multimedia   ·   User Galleries   ·   News in Pictures Send us your pictures  Â·  Send us your stories London - The Falkland Islands will vote in a referendum on Sunday and Monday which residents hope will send a crystal-clear message to Argentina and the world Read more [...]

Emotional Cristina Fernandez back in Argentina misses Chavez funeral ceremony

The Argentine president underlined the historic leadership of Chavez in Venezuela and the region “It was an honest and emotional homage” to a very good friend of Argentina, said Senator Anibal Fernandez who was a member of the delegation. The Argentine president flew to Caracas as soon as she was informed of Chavez’ Read more [...]

Argentineans pay tribute to Hugo Chavez

Members of the Central of Workers of Argentina, C-T-A, gathered around the monument of South American Liberator Simon Bolivar at the Rivadavia Park in Buenos Aires. They paid tribute to the man they described as a “cultural, political, intellectual and revolutionary” symbol, who they said erupted to challenge the “true regional enemy”: Imperialism.Statements by Venezuelan interim President Nicolas Maduro -who on national television targeted Chavez´s “imperialist enemies” and accused Read more [...]

Argentina inicia juicio a imputados por Plan Cóndor

Written by Administrator Thursday, 07 March 2013 22:11 El juicio que investigará los crímenes cometidos en los años 70 y 80, en el marco del denominado Plan Cóndor, sentó en el banquillo desde martes a los 18 imputados. Dicho juicio oral busca establecer responsabilidades en la cooperación de las dictaduras del Cono Sur para la persecución y exterminio de Read more [...]

Falklands’ rights and sovereignty

Where in the world can you celebrate Margaret Thatcher Day with five kinds of wild penguins? Nowhere but the Falkland Islands, a windswept archipelago in the South Atlantic that’s about the same area as Connecticut but has a population of only 3,100. This weekend, these small islands with a big personality face a momentous choice: a referendum to decide their political future.The question will be whether the Islanders wish their home to remain, as it has been for decades, a self-governing Read more [...]

Operation Condor: Campaign by US-backed Latin American Dictators to Hunt …

A trial that opened Tuesday in Buenos Aires is the first to consider the totality of crimes carried out under Operation Condor, a coordinated campaign by various US-backed Latin American dictatorships in the 1970s and 1980s to hunt down, torture and murder tens of thousands of opponents of those regimes. Condor was prosecuted in the name of a crusade against “terrorism.” Its methods in many ways prefigured the systematic and continuing crimes carried out by the US government decades Read more [...]