The presidents of Peru and Brazil, Alejandro Toledo and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, on Saturday inaugurated the new Integration Bridge which spans their common border and opens a Pacific Ocean trade route for Brazil.
Bolivian President-elect Evo Morales, dressed in a bright red tunic worn only by the most important pre-Inca priests, promised to do away with vestiges of his country's colonial past Saturday in a spiritual ceremony at an ancient temple on the eve of his inauguration.
Japan renewed the ban on United States beef imports following the discovery of outlawed spinal material, which has been scientifically linked to Spongiform Bovine Encephalitis, or mad cow in a shipment of veal from New York.