Mercosur

• Monday, July 31st 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Chavez from Iran threatens to cut oil supply to the US

  Venezuela is considering cutting the oil supply to United States if Washington persists with its current hostile policy towards the President Hugo Chavez regime.

• Monday, July 31st 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Mexico: massive political rally and 400 claims

  Mexico's populist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador organized this Sunday another massive political rally in the heart of Mexico City to demand a vote by vote recount of the July 2 presidential election ballot.

• Monday, July 31st 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Enap joins British Gas to build electricity plant

  Chile's government owned petroleum company ENAP teamed up with Chilean group Copec and British Gas for the building of an electricity generating plant with an estimated investment of 300 million US dollars.

• Monday, July 31st 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Lavagna describes Kirchner's policies as “interventionist”

  Argentina's former Minister of Economy Roberto Lavagna took distance from the current “state oriented” and “market intervention” policies of President Nestor Kirchner's administration

• Monday, July 31st 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina: Falklands census show Islanders are “implanted”

  Based on information from Falkland Islands censuses, the recently created Argentine Parliamentary Observatory argues that Great Britain is not entitled to claim the self determination principle in the Islands since the population was “implanted”.

• Sunday, July 30th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Playboy “rescue plan” for Varig staff

  A group of stunning Brazilian stewardesses from the former airline Varig are negotiating a contract with Playboy magazine for the publication of nude photographs.

• Saturday, July 29th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Massive redundancies in Varig

  Brazilian flag carrier Varig, which was recently sold to one of its former subsidiary, announced Friday that it will lay off 5,500 workers as part of a broad restructuring plan.

• Saturday, July 29th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Kirchner's public opinion standing strong: 75%

  Argentine president Nestor Kirchner support remained strong in June, above 75%, although four points below the May reading, according to the latest public opinion poll from consultants CEOP released in Buenos Aires.

• Saturday, July 29th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Why it's best to be a Dane or Swiss

  According to the first “World map of happiness” created at the University of Leicester, Danes and Swiss are top of the list of 177 countries and Zimbabwe and Burundi in the other extreme.

• Saturday, July 29th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Sir Nicholas re-elected chairman of UK/FI Group

  Sir Nicholas Winterton, MP for Macclesfield has been re-elected unanimously and unopposed as chairman of the United Kingdom-Falkland Islands All-Party Parliamentary Group.