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• Saturday, November 11th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Foreign investment booming in Chile

  Foreign investment in Chile has grown US$3.4 billion over the last eight months compared with US$2.2 billion during the same period in 2005. These figures come from Chile's Foreign Investment Committee (FIC).

• Saturday, November 11th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Public support for Bachelet reaches 59%

  Public support for Chilean President Michelle Bachelet's government now stands at 59%, according to the latest survey carried out by the Center for Studies of Contemporary Reality (CERC). This represents a 2% increase in support since August.

• Saturday, November 11th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Peru offers an alternative to gas

  Water cascading from Peru's Andes mountains toward the Amazon could be harnessed into electricity for power-hungry Brazil, freeing Latin America's largest nation from natural gas producers like Bolivia and Venezuela, Peruvian President Alan García said yesterday.

• Friday, November 10th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentina's options: Kirchner or Kirchner

  Argentina's First Lady, Senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is positioned to become the government's candidate for next year's presidential election, wrote analyst Joaquín Morales Solá in his Thursday column of La Nacion.

• Friday, November 10th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Gibraltar tripartite process overcomes minor tremor

  A joint “damage control” release from Spain, United Kingdom and the government of Gibraltar tried to recover the tripartite Cordoba process which was severely exposed when Spanish Foreign Affairs minister “slipped with an error” in an interview with a local newspaper.

• Friday, November 10th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentine conglomerate eyes Chilean beef industry

  One of Argentina's main conglomerates is planning to invest heavily in the Chilean meat industry purchasing one of the country's largest abattoirs, extensive ranch land with cattle in the south and a biotechnology business to improve the quality and performance of beef cattle.

• Friday, November 10th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Construction industry boom in Magallanes Region

  Magallanes and Aisen regions in the extreme south of Chile are undergoing a boom in the construction industry pushed by urban development, real estate and public works, according to the latest report from the Chilean Construction Chamber.

• Friday, November 10th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Pilot whales mass beaching in New Zealand

  Over 40 pilot whales have died in a mass beaching in northern New Zealand on Friday. A pod of the same size was refloated by volunteers and guided by boats out to sea.

• Friday, November 10th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Morales asks US to “reduce” demand for coke leaves

  Bolivia called on United States to “reduce” demand for cocaine thus helping put a cap on coke leaves production. The request follows a US complaint about the increase in the illegal acreage of coke in Bolivia.

• Friday, November 10th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Chile celebrates salmon industry success amid controversy

  Chile's booming salmon farming industry celebrated this week its twentieth anniversary with exports forecasted to reach this year a record 2.050 billion US dollars.