Exiled in Japan former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori has called the Peruvian population for a day of national protest next September 12.
The Chilean government is running no risks and will have 10,000 police and riot forces in the streets of Santiago next September 11, the thirtieth anniversary of the 1973 military coup that violently toppled elected Socialist president Salvador Allende.
Argentina is virtually very close to a new agreement with the International Monetary Fund, IMF and any misunderstandings are related to the fiscal surplus, public utility rates and bank compensations said cabinet Chief Alberto Fernandez.
Argentina received crucial political support from the United States in its current negotiations with the IMF, less than 24 hours from the deadline for the repayment of 2,9 billion US dollars that could again bring the spectre of default unless an agreement is reached by mid day tomorrow.
Brazil and Uruguay banned all meats and live animal imports from Argentina following the confirmation of an outbreak of foot and mouth, FAM, disease among hogs in the northern province of Salta close to be Bolivian border.
With less than a week for Sunday September 14 crucial runoff election the two candidates for Mayor of the city of Buenos Aires are technically tied according to the latest poll published in the Argentine press.
A record drop experienced the US dollar in Santiago's money markets with the exchange rate going from 700 to 680 pesos in just two weeks.
Santa Fe province, Argentina's fourth strongest electoral circumscription is going to the polls this Sunday becoming another testing ground for President Nestor Kirchner and the ruling Justicialista party.
Chile is a country of consensus which has left behind the polarization of thirty years ago that led to the bloody military coup of September 11, 1973, although there are still some totalitarian enclaves, legacy of the Pinochet regime, said Chilean president Ricardo Lagos.
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Argentine August inflation flat
Miserable erratic salaries.