Mercosur

• Monday, March 6th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Gibraltar/UK talks on constitutional reform

  United Kingdom and Gibraltar are scheduled to meet next week in Lancaster House for the final meeting on constitutional reform for the Rock.

• Monday, March 6th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Chavez threatens with unlimited re-election

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced he would promote constitutional changes allowing him to seek an unlimited number of terms in office.

• Monday, March 6th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine beef exports contracting

  Argentina exported last January 41.056 tons of beef valued in 114.9 million US dollars which represents a 5% volume drop and 27% contraction in value.

• Monday, March 6th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Pulp mills conflict: No Kirchner/ Vazquez summit

  A meeting between Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez and his Argentine counterpart Nestor Kirchner, when they both coincide in Chile, to address the pulp mills conflict has not been contemplated according to Uruguayan Executive sources in Montevideo.

• Monday, March 6th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Chilean Navy incorporates two refurbished frigates

  Two refurbished Dutch built frigates incorporated to the Chilean Navy surface fleet were officially received Monday in the port of Valparaíso.

• Sunday, March 5th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Haiti: Aristide return may mean chaos

  The critical issue of whether Haitian President-elect Rene Preval will allow the return from exile of his political mentor - ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide - will be taken up this week at meetings with Aristide's South African hosts, Haitian and foreign officials say.

• Sunday, March 5th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay seeks deeper trade relations with U.S.

  Uruguay looks to Washington for trade ties but not a free-trade agreement yet, the minister of industry, energy and mining said in Miami.

• Sunday, March 5th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazil clears law on Amazon wood logging

  Brazil has approved a law granting licences for wood logging in publicly owned sections of the Amazon rainforest, a move aimed at halting its destruction.

• Sunday, March 5th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Tango dancing crowd takes over Buenos Aires

  A huge open ball with an estimated 10.000 couples dancing “milonga” Saturday night in the heart of Buenos Aires was the highlight of the ten days long Tango Festival, organized by the city's government.

• Sunday, March 5th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Penguins' story banned from Missouri children's library

  A children's book about two male penguins that raise a baby penguin has been moved to the nonfiction section of two public library branches in Missouri, United States after parents complained it had homosexual undertones, reports the US press.