Mercosur

• Sunday, November 5th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Nicaragua votes today

  Ortega, 60, who spent nearly a decade fighting US-backed Contra rebels, is the frontrunner in the race with four other candidates.

• Sunday, November 5th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Saddam Hussein sentenced to death. Worldwide reactions.

  Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has been sentenced to death by hanging.

• Sunday, November 5th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  UK Army Ad is filmed in Chile

  Cash-strapped military bosses “borrowed” aircraft from South America to make TV adverts for the British Army.

• Sunday, November 5th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Chilean skies open to foreign airlines

  Chilean Sky Airlines effort to thwart the advance of competing Aerolineas del Sur suffered a major defeat this week when a Santiago court ruled that Aerolineas has the right to fly in and operate out of Chile.

• Sunday, November 5th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  US Governors' elections, a glimpse of 2008

  Next Tuesday's mid term elections in United States are not only a close fight for control of Congress with Democrats better placed than the battered Republicans but will also see voters in 36 of the 50 states choose governors.

• Sunday, November 5th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  EU top official visits Uruguay, Argentina, Chile

  European Union Foreign Relations Commissar Benita Ferrero-Waldner currently visiting several Mercosur countries is scheduled to meet with her Argentine counterpart Jorge Taiana, Monday in Buenos Aires.

• Sunday, November 5th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Mercosur and EU willing to compromise on trade

  Mercosur and European Union delegates begin Monday a two days meeting in Rio do Janeiro with the purpose of re-launching negotiations for a free trade agreement.

• Sunday, November 5th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Royal “impeller” for the pulp mills dispute

  King of Spain Juan Carlos will act as a “facilitator” or “impeller”, according to the version, in an attempt to bring together the positions of Uruguay and Argentina divided over the construction of paper mills and pickets blocking bridges between the neighboring countries.

• Saturday, November 4th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Spanish prime minister wants to broker Buenos Aires-Montevideo truce in pulp mill dispute

  Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero wishes to use the Ibero-American Summit that opened yesterday in Montevideo to broker a truce between Argentina and Uruguay in their ongoing rift over Uruguayan paper pulp mills.

• Saturday, November 4th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Annan praises Iberoamerican leaders for focus on illegal immigration

  UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan yesterday praised leaders at the 16th annual Ibero-American Summit for resolving to make progress on growing illegal immigration in an increasingly mobile world community.