Iran's president on Tuesday lauded his country's newly launched Spanish-language satellite TV channel, saying it would deal a blow to "dominance seekers" - remarks that were an apparent jab at the U.S. and the West. The launch is Tehran's latest effort to reach out to friendly...

"¡Viva España, viva América Latina!". No fue Mariano Rajoy quien pronunció esas palabras en un guiño a sus aliados al otro lado del Atlántico. Tampoco un mandatario latinomericano. Ni siquiera José Bono, empeñado en que el PSOE...

Thanks to a wave of demonstrations and protests in Santiago the government has abandoned plans to force journalists to hand over images to police under controversial new legislation sponsored by interior minister Rodrigo Hinzpeter, who announced on 18 January that he would withdraw that section...

Diversas manifestaciones y protestas han tenido lugar en Santiago para pedir que se rechace de forma definitiva la llamada “Ley Hinzpeter”, en nombre del Ministro del Interior, Rodrigo Hinzpeter. Esto, después de que éste anunciara, el 18 de enero de 2012, su...

Argentina has captured a three-man Iranian-Hizballah cell and is hunting for the rest of the network, according to exclusive debkafile sources. Its counter-terror police were a step ahead of attacks plotted against several of the 10 Habad centers in the country, part of a worldwide joint...

Argentina ha capturado una célula de tres hombres Iraníes-Hezbollah y está a la caza del resto de la red, según fuentes exclusivas de DEBKAfile. Su policía anti terrorista estaba un paso por delante de ataques planeados contra varios de los 10 centros de Jabad...

¿El sistema interamericano de derechos humanos sobrevivirá en enero de 2012? Es la cuestión que se planteará, entre otras cosas, ese día en la reunión de embajadores del Consejo Permanente de la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA). Lejos de ser...

Will the Inter-American human rights system survive beyond January 25? This is one of the decisions that will be put to the meeting of ambassadors to the Permanent Council of the Organization of Americans States on that day. Far from being a organizational tweak, the proposed overhaul of the way...

Rusia busca cerrar contratos de suministros de armamento con países latinoamericanos, en particular con Brasil, Argentina y Chile, declaró hoy el director de la corporación estatal rusa Rostekhnologii, Serguéi Chémezov. "Tenemos posibilidades de firmar...

Russia seeks to sign weapon sales agreements with Latin American countries, particularly Brazil, Argentina, and Chile, said Sergei Chemezov, the CEO of Russian state-owned corporation Rostekhnologii. Chemezov said that "no new contracts are expected soon" with Venezuela, the biggest...