Chile's Finance Minister Mr. Nicolás Eyzaguirre anticipated that the country's economy will pick up strongly in the second half of 2002, contrary to what happened in the last quarter of 2001, the worst in several years.
The number three man in the US State Department, Marc Grossman met this week with Argentine president Eduardo Duhalde to express Washington's support to the current Argentine government.
The Brazilian police, particularly at state level, commit all sort of atrocities and are the greatest threat to human rights in the country according to the annual United States Congressional report on Human Rights.