Mercosur

• 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.

• Saturday, March 4th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazil proposes regional energy market

  Latin America should form a regional market for cheap energy that will boost development across the continent, a top energy official said Friday.

• Friday, March 3rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Sweden's first case of mad cow

  Sweden's first case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, mad cow disease, has been confirmed by the European Union's central laboratory and in the Netherlands an 8 year old cow was also diagnosed with BSE.

• Friday, March 3rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Chilean Consumer prices drop 0.1% in February

  The February Consumer price index in Chile dropped 0.1%, accumulating 4.1% in the last twelve months and 0% over December 2005, according to a Friday release from the National Statistics Institute.