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Stories for 2006

• Tuesday, March 21st 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  South American gas pipeline “non viable and illusory”

  Petroleum and energy experts seriously questioned this week Venezuela, Brazil and Argentina's project to build a 20 billion US dollars pipeline in South America describing it as somehow illusory and non viable.

• Tuesday, March 21st 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  “John Cheek” case reaches House of Lords

  The Foreign Office is “following closely” the case of the Falklands' flagged fishing vessel “John Cheek” detained a month ago by the Argentine coastguard allegedly operating in Argentine waters, said Monday in Parliament Lord Triesman.

• Tuesday, March 21st 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Mercosur cancels 15th anniversary celebration

  President Nestor Kirchner's administration has cancelled Mercosur fifteenth anniversary celebrations scheduled for next Monday in Argentina's Congress given the current conflicting situation with Uruguay over the construction of two pulp mills, according to Argentine diplomatic sources.

• Monday, March 20th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Incidental albatross mortality in Latinamerica still high

  Among the delegates to the international symposium and workshop on the conservation of albatrosses and petrels held in the Falkland Islands last week was Professor Carlos Moreno, Director of the Ecological Institute of the Universidad Austral de Chile.

• Monday, March 20th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Breaking News: Tourism Pta. Arenas.

  Headlines:
  Successful first Antarctic campaign for DAP Mares; Chilean Patagonia, main attraction at Berlin tourism forum; Chile plans promotion of nautical tourism in southern coast; Queen Mary 2 next March 27.

• Monday, March 20th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Pickets humiliate Argentine Navy's pride

  Pickets which have become part of Argentina's daily existence storming at random some of the main accesses to Buenos Aires or blockading all road traffic with Uruguay have added another victim to their long list: the country's main naval base.

• Monday, March 20th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  No. of fatalities rises to 8 in TV reality show train accident

  An 80-year-old woman died Sunday, bringing to eight the number of people killed in a bizarre train accident during the shooting of a reality TV program in western Uruguay, medical personnel said.

• Sunday, March 19th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Ultra nationalist leads in Peruvian presidential race

  Peruvian former army officer Ollanta Humala, campaigning on an ultra nationalist populist ticket, has retaken the lead against conservative lawyer Lourdes Flores in Peru's presidential race, according to a public opinion poll released Sunday.

• Sunday, March 19th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Support for Brazilian president Lula da Silva stalling

  The latest public opinion poll shows support for Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his bid for a second term stalling, while his Conservative rival Geraldo Alckmin steadily increases.

• Sunday, March 19th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Bolivian government will be “brutally tough” with conspirators

  The Bolivian government promised to be “brutally tough” with those who conspire against warned Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera on the weekend in a speech to the ruling Movement Toward Socialism, MAS party.