Mercosur

• Saturday, March 25th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Pulp mills dispute: announced summit “conditioned”

  Suspending the construction of the controversial pulp mills is a previous “condition” to the scheduled summit of Uruguay and Argentina's presidents, warned this Friday in Buenos Aires Chief of cabinet Alberto Fernandez.

• Saturday, March 25th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine says not just military was behind the dictatorship

  Argentina's president told his compatriots Friday that not only the military was responsible for the coup 30 years ago that ushered in nightmarish years of abduction, torture and murder, but that significant parts of the citizenry, the church, the press and political parties must also shoulder a portion of the blame.

• Friday, March 24th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Gibraltar complains MOD airport fees hike

  United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence is considering a second increase to landing fees at Gibraltar airport, just weeks after it hiked the charges by 8.4%.

• Friday, March 24th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina marks coup anniversary

  Thousands of Argentines swayed to protest songs Friday at an early morning vigil marking the 30th anniversary of a military coup that ushered in the country's Dirty War.

• Friday, March 24th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay Argentine presidential summit

  The crisis between Uruguay and Argentina seems to be heading to a solution as people from both nations have great expectations over the meeting their presidents will hold next Wednesday.

• Thursday, March 23rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Petrobras chief supports trans-continent gas pipeline

  The director of the Brazilian government owned gas and energy agency Petrobras, Ildo Sauer, said that Venezuela has enough gas and that the project could achieve the financial unification of the subcontinent.

• Thursday, March 23rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  International funds returning to Argentina

  International funds are returning to Argentina according to the latest balance of payments figures revealed by the country's Census and Statistics Institute, Indec.

• Thursday, March 23rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Bachelet seeks more integration

  Chilean President Michelle Bachelet yesterday told Argentine lawmakers that the two nations that were on the brink of war in 1978 when both were ruled by military dictatorships now need to bury past differences and work toward greater regional economic and political integration.

• Thursday, March 23rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Millennium passengers killed in Chile bus accident

  A tour bus swerved to avoid an approaching truck and tumbled 300 feet down a mountainside in northern Chile, killing 12 American tourists and injuring two others, U.S. and Chilean officials said.

• Thursday, March 23rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Breaking news

  Headlines:
  Unemployment up and reaches 10.1% in Brazil; Bombs in the eve of Argentina's 1976 coup anniversary;
  US Homeland Security to help Brazil.