Mercosur

• 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.

• Friday, March 3rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Record cruise season for Ushuaia

  Ushuaia in the extreme south of Argentina is living a record summer season with fifty cruise vessels calling and almost 100.000 visitors, according to a report from the Argentine Coast Guard.

• Friday, March 3rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Chilean president praises Chavez, rejects “leftist wave”

  Chilean President Ricardo Lagos, whose term expires March 11, had kind words for controversial Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez at an economic forum in Santiago.

• Thursday, March 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine Leader Touts Economic Recovery

  President Nestor Kirchner told Congress on Wednesday that Argentina's recovery from a deep crisis in 2002 is one of the strongest rebounds here in a century.

• Thursday, March 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Dispute between Argentina and Uruguay

  Uruguay rejected a plea by Argentine President Nestor Kirchner on Wednesday to temporarily halt construction of two pulp mills that have sparked environmental concerns, protests and a deep diplomatic crisis between the neighbors.