Venezuela' Hugo Chavez celebrated Wednesday the country's Independence Day with a display of sophisticated aircrafts and arms purchased from Russia following an arms and spares freeze imposed by United States several months ago.
Uruguayan President Tabaré Vazquez yesterday said that a warm embrace with his Argentine counterpart Néstor Kirchner in Caracas on Tuesday night was a sign toward dialogue between the two countries which are engaged in a bitter spat over the construction of two pulp mills in Uruguay.
Mercosur should design a common strategy of security, sovereignty and defence, said Chavez.
Argentina's Consumer price index in June reached 0.5%, with an accumulated six months 4.9% and below the Kirchner administration annualized 10% target, according to the latest release from the Statistics and Census Office.
Chile is among the top five nations leading the world in childhood obesity, according to new statistics released by Junaeb, a Chilean organization focused on children and education.
The European Union Central Bank Governing Council left key interest rates unchanged at 2.75% following Thursday's meeting reported the institution's president Jean Claude Trichet.
Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador rejected Thursday the official vote tally as flawed and called his supporters to fill Mexico City's central square to press his demand for a ballot-by-ballot recount.
Former Argentine vice-president Carlos Chacho Alvarez said Thursday that Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez proposition of a joint Mercosur Army should be addressed when the integration process is well advanced.
Argentina and Venezuela announced in Caracas a strategic alliance to beef up the Caracas-Buenos Aires axis.
Bolivia will be asking Brazil to pay eight US dollars for the natural gas it pumps at a rate of 27 million cubic metres per day, according to a report Tuesday from the Bolivian Information Agency.