Mercosur

• Saturday, May 6th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Bush praises Mexican contribution to US society

  United States president George W. Bush said again that the problem of illegal immigration can only be solved through a combination of tighter border security and a guest-worker program, but also stressed that immigrants have a duty to integrate into American society.

• Saturday, May 6th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Venezuela makes official “junior” partners for oil industry

  Venezuela's only chamber legislature which has no opposition representatives approved the new contract model contract for “mixed enterprises” in which state-owned oil company PDVSA becomes the dominant partner.

• Saturday, May 6th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Garcia leading in Peruvian presidential runoff

  Ultra nationalist and former Army officer Ollanta Humala is trailing ex president Alan García in the latest public opinion polls for Peru's presidential run off next June 4.

• Friday, May 5th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Agreement to negotiate fair price for Bolivian gas

  The leaders of Argentina and Brazil have accepted Bolivia's oil and gas industry nationalization industry and have agreed to “fair and democratic” talks on future prices and foreign involvement.

• Friday, May 5th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay exposes Mercosur plights in the White House

  Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez said he was most satisfied with the meeting Thursday in the White House with President George Bush, where it was agreed to expand trade and commercial links between the two countries.

• Friday, May 5th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Blair to shake up cabinet after poll rout

  Tony Blair will carry out a wide-ranging cabinet reshuffle on Friday as he tries to fend off demands from Labour MPs that he must quit after the party's poor performance in England's local government elections.

• Friday, May 5th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina goes to The Hague

  Argentina yesterday announced that it had lodged a claim against Uruguay before the International Court of Justice in The Hague, protesting at the construction of two paper pulp mills it fears will pollute their river border.

• Friday, May 5th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Blair's sweeping reshuffle keeps Brown waiting

  Prime Minister Tony Blair fired his Home secretary and removed the Foreign secretary in a wide-ranging Cabinet reshuffle, an immediate reaction to Labor's pounding in Thursday's local elections but which also gives an indication as to the future leadership of the party.

• Thursday, May 4th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Vazquez closer to the US meets President Bush

  Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez gave further signals Wednesday in Washington of his willingness to have closer links with United States.

• Thursday, May 4th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Chile President M. Bachelet travel to Easter Islands.

  President Michelle Bachelet travels to Easter Island (Rapa Nui) today, Thursday, to inaugurate “Month of the Sea” celebrations on Chile's Pacific Ocean territory. Traveling with the President are Defense Minister Vivianne Blanlot and Interior Minister Andrés Zaldívar.