Mercosur

• Monday, October 23rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Chilean domestic air traffic expanding 5/6% annually

  Chilean domestic air traffic is growing at an annual rate of 5 to 6% and in the last fifteen years the number of passengers jumped from 3 to 10 million revealed Chile's Civil Aviation Director Enrique Rosende Alba.

• Monday, October 23rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Punta Arenas expects 167 cruise calls and 100.000 visitors

  Punta Arenas 2006/07 cruise season is expecting 163 calls and just over 100.000 visitors, (66.000 passengers and 34.000 crew members), according to Eduardo Manzanares head of the Austral Port Company which manages the local port.

• Monday, October 23rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  “Terminator Arnold” attacks Chilean fresh fruit

  California's governor race has given a dramatic turn with incumbent Arnold Schwarzenegger calling to “buy only Californian” and rejecting farm produce from other countries, among which Chile, a heavy exporter of fresh fruit to United States.

• Sunday, October 22nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  South American pipe dream ?a joke'

  The former prime minister of Spain, Felipe González, said that South America's natural gas pipeline “is a joke” and that “it will never be carried out.”

• Sunday, October 22nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Ortega eyes return to Nicaraguan presidency

  Daniel Ortega may become Nicaragua's president again. And the United States is, once more, out to stop him.

• Sunday, October 22nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  WWF in Chile debates commercial whaling

  Just moments before the start of a World Wildlife Fund conference on whale conservation, held in southern Chile's Region X, breaking news from Iceland caused a big splash: the Nordic country announced it will resume commercial whaling.

• Sunday, October 22nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Panama OKs Canal Project

  Voters overwhelmingly approved the largest modernization plan in the 92-year history of the Panama Canal on Sunday, backing a multi-billion dollar expansion that will allow the world's largest ships to squeeze through the shortcut between the seas.

• Saturday, October 21st 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Chile supports German bid for UN Security Council

  Chile's President Michelle Bachelet paid tribute to Germany this week, the country that opened its doors to her and her mother, Angela Jeria, during their exile from Pinochet's Chile between 1975 and 1979.

• Saturday, October 21st 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  American Travel Writers invited to Patagonia

  Over 160 tourism journalists and photographers belonging to United States and Canada's main media will be touring Chilean Patagonia beginning October 23.

• Saturday, October 21st 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Bolivia downplays military agreement with Venezuela

  Bolivia's neighbours should not feel threatened by a proposed military aid package from Venezuela that will be used to set up new bases along its borders, said Defence Minister Walker San Miguel.