Mercosur

• Wednesday, October 15th 2014 - 08:53 UTC

  Chile convinced of the Mercosur/Pacific Alliance 'convergence' led by Brazil

  

  Chile is confident that in coming months there will be 'significant' advances in a convergence of the Pacific Alliance and Mercosur, said Andres Rebolledo, Chile's Deputy Trade minister during a visit to Brazil.

• Monday, October 13th 2014 - 00:20 UTC

  Neves pledges a deep reform of Mercosur and opening to the world, if he wins

  

  Deep reforms and opening Mercosur to the world will be proposed by opposition candidate Aecio Neves to the other full members, if finally he is elected to lead Brazil in the 26 October runoff against president Dilma Rousseff, said Rubens Barbosa a trade expert, former ambassador in the US and currently coordinator of the opposition government program.

• Saturday, October 11th 2014 - 09:11 UTC

  Argentina claims in can detect the ebola virus in patients in less than 24 hours

  

  Argentina has developed a molecular biological method to detect the presence of the Ebola virus in a patient in less than 24 hours, the Argentine health ministry has announced.

• Saturday, October 11th 2014 - 03:24 UTC

  Special Master Pollack to meet with Argentina's and holdout lawyers next week

  

  A United States court-appointed mediator said on Friday he would hold a meeting next week between lawyers for Argentina and 'holdout' creditors suing the country in a longstanding dispute over defaulted debt.

• Saturday, October 11th 2014 - 03:22 UTC

  Morales confident he will win Sunday's election in all nine Bolivian districts

  

  At an event to mark the closing of his campaign ahead of Sunday’s elections, a self-assured Evo Morales told Bolivians that he will win all over the country and will even take the opposition’s bastions of support in the east.

• Saturday, October 11th 2014 - 01:47 UTC

  UN Human Rights Council calls for immediate release of Venezuelan dissident Leopoldo Lopez

  

  The United Nations adopted a resolution Wednesday decreeing the Venezuelan government should immediately release Leopoldo Lopez, the opposition leader who has been imprisoned for almost nine months in connection to the violent protests in Caracas in February.

• Friday, October 10th 2014 - 05:01 UTC

  Latam headed for a third year of foreign trade stagnation, reports ECLAC

  

  Latin America and the Caribbean's foreign trade will experience its third year of stagnation in 2014, because of minimal growth in exports and a slight decline in imports, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) reported on Thursday.

• Thursday, October 9th 2014 - 06:08 UTC

  Mercosur finally agrees: unified number plates for new cars beginning 2016

  

  The five full members of the Mercosur trade bloc will use unified number plates for their 0km vehicles starting in 2016, Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman announced on Wednesday from San Martín Palace in Buenos Aires city.

• Wednesday, October 8th 2014 - 08:24 UTC

  Uruguay presidential race to be decided in runoff in November seems confirmed by latest poll

  

  A run off in November to elect Uruguay's president seems most certain because none of the two leading candidates will manage a majority in the first round on 26 October, according to the latest public opinion poll.

• Monday, October 6th 2014 - 05:56 UTC

  Dilma (40%) and Neves (34%) to the runoff; mathematically the opposition can win

  

  Brazil's unpredictable election took another twist Sunday, with populist President Dilma Rousseff forced into a runoff race as expected, but against a center-right challenger who only surged in the final week of the campaign.