Mercosur

• Thursday, April 6th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Lat. Aviation news.

  Headlines:
  Copa Airlines, 5 New Destinations for 2006;
  Aeromexico to go on the block; Varig running out of cash; Crisis nears end at LAB.

• Thursday, April 6th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina/Chile to discuss natural gas supply

  Energy officials from Argentina will travel to Santiago this month to discuss the supply of natural gas to Chile. Argentina's energy secretary, Daniel Cameron, will meet with Chile's mining minister, Karen Poniachik, and the executive secretary of the Chilean National Energy Commission (CNE).

• Thursday, April 6th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Euro Zone benchmark interest rate remains unchanged

  The European Central Bank left Thursday its benchmark rate unchanged at 2.5% but ECB president Jean Claud Trichet said the bank will do what is necessary to curb inflation, signaling he may support higher interest rates in coming months.

• Thursday, April 6th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Nationalist candidate leads comfortably Peruvian election

  With a few hours before Peru's Sunday's crucial presidential election two last minute public opinion polls have further complicated an already confusing political scenario.

• Wednesday, April 5th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Brief News

  Headlines:
  Chavez receives Russian built military helicopters; Copper prices record trend forecasted to continue; March consumer inflation in Chile: 0.6%.

• Wednesday, April 5th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazil begins protection of migrant Falklands' seabirds

  When you think of Brazil and birds, you probably think of rainforests and brightly-coloured parrots.

• Wednesday, April 5th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Full professional Army for Chile in eight years

  Chile will have totally professional Armed Forces, eliminating conscription, in eight years time according to a plan unveiled by President Michelle Bachelet.

• Wednesday, April 5th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Five days waiting list to cross the Panama Canal

  The number of vessels waiting to cross the Panama Canal on Tuesday reached 103 causing considerable delays, --up to five days--, according to the administrative body of the inter-oceanic waterway

• Wednesday, April 5th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Bankers fearful of Latin America election year

  Presidential elections in seven Latin American countries this year have investors jittery over prospects that new leaders might undermine the region's economic gains, leading international bankers said Tuesday in Belo Horizonte.

• Wednesday, April 5th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  President's Summit sinks on move by Botnia

  Uruguay announced that a widely expected summit between its President and that of Argentina to seek a solution to a dispute over two Uruguayan factories under construction has been suspended once again after a company building one of the plants yesterday refused to halt works for a period demanded by Argentina to assess the environmental consequences,