Mercosur

• Tuesday, July 25th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Kirchner and farmers long distance dialogue

  While Argentine farmers completed on Monday their third stoppage and protest day, the administration of president Nestor Kirchner launched a livestock program with the purpose of increasing the number of cattle and thus “harmonically” supplying “domestic and overseas” demand.

• Tuesday, July 25th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Latinamerica forecasted to expand 5% this year

  Latinamerica and the Caribbean region economies are forecasted to expand 5% in 2006, up from the original 4.6%, supported on a better than expected performance from Brazil and Mexico.

• Tuesday, July 25th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  UK/Argentina “positive” meeting on Falklands' de-mining

  Argentina and Britain held another round of talks last week in London for the clearance of land mines in the Falkland Islands and announced a next meeting in September in Buenos Aires.

• Monday, July 24th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine farmers on strike promise further actions

  An organization representing 100.000 Argentine farmers is on strike until next Tuesday when “if conditions persist”, the industrial action could be extended warned on Sunday leaders of protest rallies in several cattle and cereal belts towns.

• Monday, July 24th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Chile and Asian contacts, priority for Peruvian foreign policy

  Peru's future Foreign Affairs minister Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde accused the current Peruvian administration of “unnecessarily ill-treating” relations with Chile, which he identified as one of the incoming government's top foreign policy priorities.
  Next July 28, elected president Alan García will be taking office in Peru.

• Monday, July 24th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Bachelet under flak at home because of Mercosur summit

  Chile's Executive branch spokesperson highlighted President Michelle Bachelet's role in the recent Mercosur Cordoba summit and the meetings held with her counterparts from Argentina and Bolivia, countries with which Chile has pending discrepancies.

• Monday, July 24th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Chile, Brazil, Uruguay, region's highest cost of living

  Chile, Brazil and Uruguay have the highest cost of living in Latinamerica according to a report from the Chilean Statistics Institute (INE) released in Santiago.

• Sunday, July 23rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Castro, Chavez visit “Che's” home

  Seemingly unconcerned about an Argentine request to allow a Cuban doctor out of the island to visit her children in Argentina, Cuban leader Fidel Castro yesterday spent his third day in Cordoba province by taking Venezuelan ally Hugo Chavez on an emotional pilgrimage to the boyhood home of Ernesto “Che” Guevara.

• Sunday, July 23rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Sexy Santiago: “Coffee with legs”

  North Americans take their coffee with milk or sugar. Europeans sometimes add chocolate, and the Irish have been known to add a healthy dose of whiskey to their morning or evening beverage. In Chile, however, coffee often comes with legs (café con piernas).

• Sunday, July 23rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Family remembers Brazilian slain by London police

  Family and friends of a Brazilian man who was mistaken by London police officers for a terrorist and killed inside a subway station in this capital gathered Saturday at the site of the tragedy on the one-year anniversary of his death.