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• Monday, June 5th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina heading for car sales record year

  Argentina's booming economy is reflecting in the automobile industry with sales of new models and second hand cars forecasted to reach 1.6 million, the highest ever.

• Monday, June 5th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Paraguay sacks ambassador in Buenos Aires

  The Paraguayan government sacked over the weekend its ambassador in Buenos Aires following allegations he was an informer for the dictatorial regime of President Alfredo Stroessner, (1954/1989), who worked closely with other military regimes of the region at the time.

• Monday, June 5th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Corruption costs Bolivian homes 115 million US dollars

  “Under the table” or irregular payments to Bolivian bureaucrats are estimated to have reached 115 million US dollars in 2005 according to a report sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development made public in La Paz Sunday.

• Monday, June 5th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Garcia proclaims victory and calls for dialogue

  Addressing thousands of followers in Lima Sunday night Alan Garcia proclaimed he was the winner of the Peruvian presidential runoff.

• Monday, June 5th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Venezuela: Arrival of Russian rifles is “historic” event

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday called the arrival of a shipment of 30,000 Russian assault rifles as “historic.”

• Monday, June 5th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Today is “World Environment Day”

  World Environment Day, commemorated each year on 5 June, is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action

• Monday, June 5th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina presses for annual OAS Falklands' claim

  Argentina will again request for a solution to the sovereignty dispute with the United Kingdom over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands issue during the Organization of American States annual assembly currently taking place in the Dominican Republic.

• Monday, June 5th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Ollanta Humala admits defeat

  Ollanta Humala admitted early Monday Alan Garcia's victory in the Sunday Peruvian presidential run-off.

• Monday, June 5th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Kirchner administration furious with former minister

  The Argentine government said Sunday that former economy minister Roberto Lavagna is a “cosmetic candidate” supported by former presidents Eduardo Duhalde and Raúl Alfonsín who are longing “to have some presence in the polls” for next year's presidential elections.

• Monday, June 5th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Pulp mills dispute: 6 to 8 weeks before a ruling

  Argentina believes it will take six to eight weeks before the “no innovation” clause in the pulp mills dispute with Uruguay currently before the International Court of The Hague, is accepted or rejected.