Tuesday morning saw the arrival in Port Stanley of the cruise vessel Amsterdam and the start of the summer cruise season.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's Workers Party (PT) suffered a serious setback on Sunday during the municipal elections runoff with the loss of two main strongholds in the cities of Sao Paulo and Porto Alegre.
A remarkable landmark in Uruguay's political history was achieved this Sunday when the left wing Broad Front-Progressive Encounter won by a landslide presidential and legislative elections thus breaking the uninterrupted dominance of the two traditional or historic parties that have ruled the country for the last 170 years.
Chile's ruling coalition Concertación, won this Sunday's municipal elections and although it failed in its attempt to hoist the main trophy, Santiago which remains under opposition control, President Ricardo Lagos described the victory as an anticipation of the 2005 presidential elections.
United States this Monday congratulated Uruguayan elected president Socialist Tabare Vazquez and the Uruguayan people on their peaceful exercise of the democratic process.
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Antarctic residents vote in Chilean election; Lan Chile welcomes competition; Punta Arenas airport undergoing maintenance; Cruise season begins in southern Chile.
Western Patriot belonging to a US-Norwegian company and contracted by the Spanish-Argentine consortium Repsol-YPF is seismic surveying an area extending between Falkland Islands and Tierra del Fuego reports the Argentine press.
Argentine president Nestor Kirchner officially inaugurated this week the renewed air terminal of Rio Gallegos which now also includes a 3,500 metres runway, one of the longest in the area.
Despite an electoral curfew that started yesterday in Uruguay ? which silenced the public fervour sympathizers of all candidates had shown in the weeks leading to the country's election tomorrow ?the country continued to produce news.
The vast Perito Moreno glacier that lost an enormous wall of ice in a spectacular collapse in March is showing signs that another section could eventually break free, the La Nación newspaper reported yesterday.