United States is speeding the pace of the Free Trade Association of the Americas, FTAA and anticipated that the mini-summit of this coming weekend in Washington will help define the final accord, expected to become effective January 2005. Just in case it promised bilateral trade agreements to all those countries of the region who contribute to liberalize trade.
Argentine police were holding Tuesday night at least seven suspects they captured in a raid after 22-year-old kidnap victim Pablo Belluscio was returned to his family.
Argentina will pressure Mercosur partner Uruguay to drop its intransigent opposition to the idea of offering Cuba membership in the regional trade block, according to Argentine ambassador in Havana Raul Taleb.
The international industry group representing the world's legal toothfish operators COLTO has written to the Director of Uruguayan Fisheries ( DINARA) to raise its concern about statements he has been reported making about COLTO to a parliamentary inquiry investigating the Viarsa 1 incident.
Crew facing illegal fishing charges after being taken into custody when their boat was apprehended in the Southern Ocean, have been refused an application to return to their country.
The governor of Argentina's largest province on Monday ordered 3,300 more police officers into the streets to stem crime sweeping the suburbs of Buenos Aires.
Chilean Defence Minister Michelle Bachelet and the Commander of the Navy Admiral Miguel Angel Vergara presided last Friday in the christening ceremony of the first of two French-Spanish Scorpone class submarines in Cherbourg, France.
Argentina and Brazil want Cuba to become an associate member of Mercosur, but have come across Uruguay's negative says the latest edition of the Brazilian magazine Epoca.
A joint military exercise involving the three armed services of Argentina and Chile had to be cancelled at last moment because the Argentine Congress did not grant approval on time claims the Buenos Aires newspaper La Nación.
The P&O British cruise liner Aurora with 400 passengers on board infected with a highly contagious gastro-intestinal virus is scheduled to arrive this Monday in Gibraltar on a return journey to Southampton. The Aurora was denied docking in Athens because of the sanitary condition.