Mercosur

• Wednesday, July 26th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Annan in 'deliberate bombing' storm

  UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is at the centre of a diplomatic storm after accusing Israel of deliberately bombing a UN observer post in southern Lebanon.

• Tuesday, July 25th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Chile's overseas investment doubled in 2006

  Chileans invested overseas during the first half of 2006 a total of 4.1 billion US dollars which is double the amount (two billion) of the same period a year ago, reported the Central Bank.

• Tuesday, July 25th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Doha round talks collapse with no revival on sight

  Negotiations for a new global free trade agreement fell through Monday after five years of long and exhausting negotiations, admitted officials and diplomats involved in a last ditch effort to save the Doha Round.

• Tuesday, July 25th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina suggests checking Chilean gas distributors

  Chilean natural gas distributors rejected Monday statements by Argentina's Federal Planning Secretary who accused them of taking “excessive advantage” of Argentine gas prices.

• 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.