Italian textile tycoon Luciano Benetton announced Wednesday the donation of 7.500 hectares of land to Indian communities in Argentine Patagonia.
Brazilian Agriculture minister Roberto Rodrigues publicly admitted that the resurgence of foot and mouth, FAM, outbreaks can be traced to a softening of measures to combat the disease.
Brazilian low cost airline Gol is beginning flights to Bolivia next Monday November 7 and to Montevideo, Uruguay and Asuncion, Paraguay before the end of 2005, announced company officials in Sao Paulo.
The European Central Bank, ECB, decided Thursday to keep Eurozone interest rates unchanged at 2% for another month but strong vigilance is required to ensure that medium and long-term inflation expectations remain well-anchored.
The deep controversy over free trade and how to promote job creation was evident late Thursday with the arrival of US President George Bush to Mar del Plata, Argentina for the IV Americas Summit scheduled to begin Friday: the final declaration draft remained almost finished with two or three paragraphs still open.
Brazil confirmed the existence of ten new outbreaks of foot and mouth disease, FAM, but concentrated in a county of the state of Matto Grosso do Sul where the epidemic started in early October.
Unemployment in Chile dropped to 8,5% during the July-September quarter from 9,7% in the same period a year ago, according to the latest release from the Statistics Institute.
Pranab Mukherjee became the first Indian Minister of Defence to visit Antarctica where he was taken by Chilean hosts last weekend.
Chile's Health minister Pedro García called on the population to abstain from consuming uncooked sea food because of the possible resurgence of the para-hemolytic vibrion which last year intoxicated 10,000 people.
Chilean legislators have called upon the government to declare the coast in the northern city of Antofagasta a catastrophe area following the oil spill by a Hong Kong-flagged cargo ship which ran aground last Monday and apparently seems out of control.