Bolivian favourite presidential hopeful Evo Morales claimed the existence of a plan orchestrated by his country's oligarchy to delay the coming December elections, but this will only delay their own defeat.
A close ally of Brazilian president Lula da Silva, Communist Aldo Rebelo was elected late Wednesday head of the Lower House, a much needed victory for the embattled administration.
The Cuban communist regime celebrated this week the 45th anniversary of the neighbourly big brother organization which keeps a close eye on almost every Cuban citizen and foreign visitors, virtually covering the whole island.
The Argentine team involved in the search of two missing members disappeared in an Antarctic crevasse since September 17, joined Thursday the rescue efforts of the Chilean Army that has three men trapped in a snow vehicle which plunged forty metres into a crack in the ice cap.
Mercosur is forecasted to become a world cellulose production pole with investments in three plants and forests, from one company only equivalent to 3,75 billion US dollars.
The Venezuelan government expropriated this week a corn silos plant belonging to the country's main agro-business corporation as part of its campaign to take over idle companies and farmland and hand them to workers and peasants.
The extent of the disillusion with the corruption scandal involving the Brazilian administration of President Lula da Silva is taking its toll in the ruling Workers Party, four Deputies resigned and 400 grass root leaders have left.
Risk assessment agencies anticipate that political rattling in the coming eighteen months when elections will be held in fourteen Latinamerican countries could delay the implementation of structural reforms in some of them.
There will be another influenza pandemic and failure to prepare for it appropriately will have catastrophic consequences, the head of the United Nations health agency warned Tuesday, calling for national control plans worldwide and massive international collaboration to prevent the potential deaths of millions of people.
The Argentine government announced over the weekend in Washington that it seeks a credit accord with the International Monetary Fund and advanced it's willing to address the hold outs of the massive sovereign bonds restructuring program officially closed.