Mercosur

• Saturday, July 8th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Countries need to oil their wheels

  The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in conjunction with the UN, published a major agricultural study last week.

• Saturday, July 8th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Annan extols football's “Universal Language”

  U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, in Berlin to attend the World Cup final, today the state of world football with the state of the world at large, and the most popular sport on Earth came out on top, with its equality, level playing field and transparency affording a shining example.

• Saturday, July 8th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  LatAm Gas Pipeline Begins

  The pipeline for transporting natural gas between Colombia and Venezuela got underway Saturday with the welding of two pipes in the presence the president of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe, of Panama, Martin Torrijos, and of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez.

• Friday, July 7th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Foreign Office's “Republic of Falklands” option

  The independence of the Falkland Islands is an option not ruled out by the Foreign Office to ensure the continued presence of the United Kingdom in the South Atlantic and improve London's international standing, is the main argument of a book recently launched in Buenos Aires.

• Friday, July 7th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Carter calls for “no foreign influence” in Nicaragua

  Former United States President Jimmy Carter called for transparency in the coming Nicaraguan November presidential election hopefully “with no foreign influence of any kind”.

• Friday, July 7th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina pretends 50% hike in gas price sale to Chile

  Argentina's natural gas exports to Chile will be taxed and twelve different formulas to calculate the new range of prices were handed to Chile's Energy and Mining Minister Karen Poniachik.

• Friday, July 7th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  US implicit support for Calderon's victory

  United States congratulated on Friday the Mexican people for the “free and fair elections” and expressed “full confidence” in the country's democratic institutions.

• Thursday, July 6th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Bachelet speaks freely with reporters

  President Michelle Bachelet held an informal breakfast Tuesday with the National Press Association and frankly discussed many issues surrounding her presidency.

• Thursday, July 6th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Migrants' remittances foster development

  Remittances from migrants to their home countries have great potential to foster economic development, a senior United Nations official told the press in Geneva.

• Thursday, July 6th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Mexico' official recount shows Lopez Obrador leading

  The official manual recount of Sunday ballots in Mexico's tight presidential election is showing Social-democrat candidate Manuel Lopez Obrador leading over his Conservative rival Felipe Calderon by 2.53 points.