Mercosur

• Tuesday, November 14th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Gold and oil prices end lower

  Gold prices fell yesterday, as a rise in the dollar and weaker oil prices encouraged investors to sell, though the correction since last week's highs has not changed bullish market sentiment

• Tuesday, November 14th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Latin America: The short view

  This was supposed to be a difficult year for investors in Latin America, as many countries in the region, including Brazil and Mexico, the two biggest, went to the polls. Fears of a swing to the left were mostly realised.

• Tuesday, November 14th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Calderon set to steer foreign policy toward South America

  Mexican President-elect Felipe Calderon hardly seems like one to chart a new foreign-policy course.

• Monday, November 13th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Lula visits Chavez to show vote support

  Brazil's newly re-elected leader visited Venezuela on Monday in a show of support for his fellow leftist, President Hugo Chavez, who is himself campaigning for another term in a December 3 vote.

• Monday, November 13th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Chile and Australia begin free trade talks

  Negotiations leading to a free trade agreement between Chile and Australia will begin soon, according to statements from the two countries' foreign ministers.

• Monday, November 13th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Castro: terminal cancer?

  The US government believes Fidel Castro's health is deteriorating and that the Cuban dictator is unlikely to live through 2007, US officials said.

• Monday, November 13th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Asia Summit Pushes WTO Talks, Free Trade

  U.S. President George W. Bush and other Pacific Rim leaders meeting in Hanoi, this week will issue an SOS for stalled world trade talks, while mulling a region-wide free trade agreement, officials said Monday.

• Sunday, November 12th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Bracelets to detect UV rays and fight skin cancer

  Bracelets that change color when exposed to harmful UV rays are among the new weapons in Chile's fight against skin cancer, one of the country's biggest health problems.

• Sunday, November 12th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Uruguay among top ten contributors to UN blue helmets

  United Nations peacekeeping deployment reached a historic high at the end of October, with nearly 81,000 military and police personnel and some 15,000 civilians serving in peace operations around the world in 18 different missions, and a budget that could reach 7 billion US dollars, reported the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations reported today.

• Sunday, November 12th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Potosi to claim treasure sunk off Florida in 1622

  The Bolivian district of Potosi with the legendary Cerro Rico, the greatest silver deposit in the time of the Spanish conquest announced it was preparing an international demand to recover a sunken treasure which was lost in 1622 but was found three centuries later in 1985 along the coat of Florida, United States.