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• Thursday, June 8th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Bachelet denies any pressure from President Bush

  Chilean president Michelle Bachelet following a meeting Thursday with President George Bush in the White House categorically denied any US pressure to vote against Venezuela becoming a non permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.

• Wednesday, June 7th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Humala block could split and join with Garcia

  The founder and chairman of the party that lent its banner to nationalist Ollanta Humala for his failed presidential bid said Tuesday that the unsuccessful hopeful no longer leads the Union for Peru, or UPPO.

• Wednesday, June 7th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Former Paraguayan president sentenced to six years in jail

  Paraguay's former president Luis Gonzalez Macchi was convicted to six years in prison on for embezzling 16 million U.S. dollars from two collapsed banks, according to reports from Paraguay's capital Asuncion.

• Wednesday, June 7th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  US knew Eichmann's whereabouts since early fifties

  Since the early fifties United States was aware on the whereabouts of Adolf Eichmann, one of the architects of the Nazi Holocaust, but chose to keep the matter secret, fearing that the arrest of the Nazi fugitive might lead to embarrassing revelations about links between senior West German officials and other Nazis.

• Wednesday, June 7th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  “The party is over”, lean growth years ahead

  After three years of sustained growth the economies of Latinamerica (including Argentina and Venezuela) will be expanding at a more moderate rate according to estimates from the World Bank and Wall Street analysts.

• Wednesday, June 7th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Massive crater found in Antarctica dates back 250 million years

  United States scientists discovered in Antarctica a massive crater which could have wiped out more than 90 % of the species on Earth 250 million years ago, an American geologist said Wednesday.

• Wednesday, June 7th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Two candidates dominate Mexico' presidential contest

  The contest for Mexico's presidency next July 2 has become a two horse race between populist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Conservative Felipe Calderon, who according to public opinion polls seems to have won the campaign's second and last televised debate Tuesday evening.

• Tuesday, June 6th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Chile students and Police clash during National strike

  High school students were arrested and journalists injured in central Santiago during Monday's national strike.

• Tuesday, June 6th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina: “We need to expunge infectious cells” said Defence Minister

  Defence Minister Nilda Garré yesterday warned that to “heal the wounds” left by the 1976-1983 dictatorship the government must “expunge infectious cells” created by a bunch of officers, whom President Néstor Kirchner accused of vindicating state terrorism. She denied any unease among the armed forces.

• Tuesday, June 6th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Mexico ready for crucial television debate

  Mexico's presidential candidates in the run up to the July 2 election will hold Tuesday evening a televised debate, which is considered crucial given the parity among the contenders.