Mercosur

• Monday, August 15th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands' war film in Spanish film festival

  “Enlightened by fire”, the Argentine film showing how Argentine soldiers were mistreated and humiliated by their own officers during the 1982 South Atlantic conflict will be competing in the San Sebastian, Spain, film Festival next September.

• Monday, August 15th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Mercosur-CAN speed integration process

  The full integration timetable for Mercosur and the Community of Andean Nations could be advanced from 2014 to 2010 in the coming South American Nations Community presidential summit which will be hosted by Brazil next September.

• Sunday, August 14th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Bishops call for an end to the “scandalous gaps” in Chile

  Chilean bishops from the Catholic Church Standing Episcopal Committee called on all candidates campaigning for December elections to make public proposals to achieve greater equality in the Chilean society helping to overcome the current “scandalous social, economic and cultural gaps”.

• Saturday, August 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Castro turns 79 and still going strong

  Fidel Castro, the world's longest ruling head of state turns 79 Saturday, is celebrating a key political and legal victory over his enemies in exile after a U.S. appeals court ordered a new trial in the high-profile case of five alleged Cuban spies.

• Saturday, August 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Oil industry drastically cuts investment in Bolivia

  Investment in Bolivia by the mainly foreign-owned petroleum companies dropped 40% in the first half of this year compared to the same period in 2004, reported the oil and gas industry in La Paz.

• Saturday, August 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Lula apologizes but is unconvincing

  Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva apologized Friday in a nationwide address for a bribery and campaign finance scandal while the head of a junior party in the ruling coalition said for the first time that the president was aware of misdeeds before they occurred.

• Saturday, August 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Australia amends bill to tackle illegal fishing

  To counter the alarming increase in the number of foreign vessels fishing illegally in Australia's northern waters, Parliament passed the Border Protection Legislation Amendment Bill on 10 August.

• Saturday, August 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay after larger share in Atlantic tuna

  Uruguay's National Directorate of Aquatic Resources (DINARA) is working on a strategic plan benefiting Uruguayan flagged vessels in the tuna and swordfish Atlantic fisheries over the next five years.

• Saturday, August 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Mrs. Pinochet described as arrogant and vindictive

  Lucia Hiriart, the wife of Augusto Pinochet who now has also been indicted on corruption charges has played a notorious public role gaining over the decades a reputation for arrogance, resoluteness and vindictiveness.

• Saturday, August 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Venezuela-US recrimination and visa “war” escalates

  The Venezuelan government withdrew the diplomatic immunity of United States anti drugs officials working in Venezuela and accused Washington of escalating the ongoing bilateral war of words with the purpose of forcing a break in diplomatic relations.