Via Australis the latest Chilean incorporation to the regional cruise industry was in Punta Arenas over the weekend preparing for her inaugural trip March 4.
Bolivian President Evo Morales reached an agreement with the United States to reduce surplus coca crops in the central Chapare region and adopt a zero cocaine policy.
The Falkland Islands registered fishing vessel John Cheek is being escorted to Comodoro Rivadavia after having been boarded Monday morning for allegedly poaching in Argentine waters, according to an official report from the Argentine Coast Guard.
Nearly a quarter of Brazilians in the 15 to 24 age group neither work nor study, reported Monday Folha de Sao Paulo, quoting a paper by an independent think-tank.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said that if no opposition candidates run in the December presidential election, he might seek to lift the constitutional limit on successive presidential terms.
A majority of Argentines is against Uruguay's plans to establish two pulp mills on the shared river Uruguay, which acts as a natural border between the two countries, according to public opinion polls published Sunday in the Buenos Aires press.
Just a week before Carnival, the Rolling Stones drew an estimated one and a half million people to a free concert last night on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro.
A former Royal Navy support ship that made history in the Falkland Islands conflict has been put up for sale on the Ministry of Defence's equivalent of eBay.
France will be delivering to Argentina for a symbolic price, two support vessels that can each carry 500 troops, four helicopters and 1.500 tons of equipment. The Ouragan is expected in Buenos Aires next mid March and the Orage in 2007.
Higher food, car and energy costs pushed United States producer prices up by more than expected in January, according to the latest report from the Labour Department.