Mercosur

• Tuesday, August 2nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Fisheries: Breaking News

  Headlines:
  Japanese research vessel helps with squid survey; Argentina's half year fish exports reached 452 million; Federal Fisheries Council sets maximum allowable catches for 2005.

• Monday, August 1st 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Breaking News from Pta. Arenas.

  Headlines:
  
  
  Cruise “Antarctic Dream”, ready to sail; Surge in Punta Arenas unemployment; Magallanes records major increase in “social” crime.

• Monday, August 1st 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Venezuelan president needs to be “exorcised”

  Venezuelan Cardinal Rosalio Castillo said in an interview published Sunday in the Colombian press that his country's president, Hugo Chavez, was “a paranoid despot” who, instead of a blessing needed an “exorcism”.

• Monday, August 1st 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Growing US public opinion against war in Iraq

  According to public opinion pollster Gallup, 32% of North Americans believe the war in Iraq is lost, while 21% feel President Bush could eventually win it, but don't see him determined.

• Monday, August 1st 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  State of Sao Paulo, a country on its own

  The state of Sao Paulo in Brazil reached the 40 million inhabitants mark this weekend which makes it more populated than at least 178 countries, according to the Regional Data Analysis System.

• Monday, August 1st 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Chile's ruling coalition proclaims presidential candidate

  Chile's Christian Democratic Party (DC) proclaimed Saturday Socialist Michelle Bachelet as the only candidate of the ruling coalition (Concertacion for Democracy) for December's presidential election.

• Monday, August 1st 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Latinamerica wins first round of “banana war”

  The World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled Monday in favour of nine Latin American countries that had challenged an increase in the European Union's tariff on bananas scheduled to take effect next year.

• Saturday, July 30th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Welsh community mark 140 years in Patagonia

  Argentina's Welsh community marked the 140th anniversary of the first settlers landing in what is now Puerto Madryn, in the Patagonian province of Chubut, on July 28, 1865.

• Saturday, July 30th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay seeks trade and investment with Venezuela

  Venezuela's state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA) is considering upgrading Uruguay's La Teja refinery to process Venezuelan oil in the most recent step to increase oil sales to Latin America, a company official said.

• Saturday, July 30th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Steven Seagal and “Submerged” irritate Uruguay

  Uruguay is seriously considering legal actions against the producers of a Hollywood film “Submerged” with Steven Seagal which ridicules the South American country as a banana republic where a terrorist captured US nuclear submarine is taken.