Mercosur

• Sunday, July 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Labour MP asks Argentina to respect Falklanders rights

  Labour MP for Chorley, Lindsay Hoyle in an open letter sent to his Argentine colleagues published Sunday in Buenos Aires “La Nación” said it's hard to understand how a country so committed to human rights “can deny those same rights to the people of Malvinas/Falklands”.

• Saturday, July 1st 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands' 25 years fishing permits “a provocation”

  The granting of fishing permits of up to 25 years is a provocation inviting Buenos Aires to also adopt drastic measures, said Carlos Ortiz de Rozas, who was ambassador to the United Kingdom as the two countries went to war in 1982 over the Falkland Islands, writes Guillermo Haskel in The Buenos Aires Herald.

• Saturday, July 1st 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Morales back steps and hopes to travel to the US

  Bolivian President Evo Morales hopes to travel to Washington to ask Congress to extend trade preferences set to expire at the end of the year, a government official said in La Paz.

• Saturday, July 1st 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina Falklands' policy cools defence relations with UK

  The growing strain between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands advanced further when the Defence Ministry announced this week the suspension, until next October, of several United Kingdom/Argentina defense and military confidence building bilateral events.

• Saturday, July 1st 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Foreign Secretary Beckett visits Brazil

  British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett will visit Brazil between July 2 and 4 at the invitation of Foreign Affairs Minister Celso Amorim. This will be Ms Beckett first bilateral visit since she was appointed Foreign Secretary two months ago.

• Saturday, July 1st 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Pekerman blamed for Argentine defeat.

  The English press all headlined the extraordinary substitutions made by Argentine coach Jose Pekerman, which they maintain led to Argentina's exit from the 2006 World Cup.

• Saturday, July 1st 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  English happy with Argentine referee.

  Argentine referee Horacio Elizondo and his assistants, Dario Garcia and Rodolfo Otero, generally officiated well at the very heated game between England and Portugal in the quarter-finals of the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

• Friday, June 30th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  ENAP claims abundant natural gas in Tierra del Fuego

  Chile's government owned oil corporation ENAP will be investing 40 million US dollars in the exploitation of a natural gas and petroleum deposit in Magallanes Region announced in Santiago the company's CEO Enrique Davila.

• Friday, June 30th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Strong Chilean economy creates more jobs and jobless

  Unemployment in Chile increased during the March-May quarter reaching 8.7%, which is 0.4% above the same period a year ago (8.3%), according to the latest release from the Chilean Statistics Institute.

• Friday, June 30th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Spanish magnate faces US trial for illegal toothfish trade

  Spanish fishing magnate Antonio Vidal and the Uruguayan company Fidelur have been allegedly caught red handed illegally trading with toothfish in United States and now face serious charges in a Miami federal court.