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• Wednesday, November 22nd 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  “Mi Negra” project has Chavez on the defensive

  Ninety days ago, the odds against Manuel Rosales winning the Venezuelan presidency had to be 100-to-1. But now, with less than two weeks before election-day, he's got a real chance to pull off the biggest upset in modern Latin American political history.

• Wednesday, November 22nd 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Soy rapidly becoming an only crop threatening biodiversity

  The explosive development of soybean farming in the last decade means 8% of the world's agriculture land is dedicated to the crop and ranks only behind three basic cereals: rice, wheat and corn. Soy and derivate exports represent 10% of all global agriculture trade reveals the latest report from FAO.

• Wednesday, November 22nd 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Lamy in Montevideo for Uruguay Round anniversary

  World Trade Organization Secretary General Pascal Lamy arrived Tuesday in Uruguay for the twentieth anniversary celebration of the launching of the GATT Uruguay Round in 1986.

• Wednesday, November 22nd 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Brazil: focus on infrastructure

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva plans to hire more people and modify environmental laws to force through 120 stalled infrastructure projects in his second term, a senior Environment Ministry official said.

• Wednesday, November 22nd 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Bush Daughter Is Robbed In Argentina

  One of the twin daughters of President George W Bush has been robbed of her handbag in Argentina despite protection by US Secret Service agents.

• Wednesday, November 22nd 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Chile, favourite S. American destination for US students

  A growing number of university students from the United States spend a year abroad, pursuing careers from political science to the arts, and gaining a wealth of world-knowledge in the process. Chile appears to be a growing favorite among them.

• Wednesday, November 22nd 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Chile: News in brief.

  Headlines:
  HMS Norfolk becomes “Almirante Cochrane”; Two sperm whales grounded in Magellan Strait beaches; Chilean algae exports total 99 million US dollars; Methanex back in production after Argentine strikers cut gas supply.

• Wednesday, November 22nd 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Documents confirm US involvement in 1964 Brazilian coup

  United States encouraged and supported the 1964 military coup in Brazil against elected president Joao Goulart according to documents from the US State Department recently declassified.

• Wednesday, November 22nd 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  New call from Lamy to re-launch Doha round talks

  World Trade Organization Director General Pascal Lamy called Wednesday on all parties to decisively re-launch the Doha round negotiations. He was speaking in the framework of the current twentieth anniversary celebrations of the GATT Uruguay round in Montevideo.

• Wednesday, November 22nd 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  US/Colombia trade agreement must face Congress

  United States signed Wednesday a free-trade agreement (FTA) with Colombia, which promises to strengthen economic ties between both countries by eliminating tariffs and other barriers to goods and services and expanding trade.