Mercosur

• 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.

• Friday, July 29th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Global common hake campaign begins

  Scientists and technicians of the National Institute for Fisheries Research and Development are to begin a study on common hake to determine the resource total biomass between parallels 34º 30' S and 48º S, and evaluate its abundance and distribution by age and size.

• Friday, July 29th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Chilean fisheries plants inspected by EU experts

  Eco-oceans an environmental non government organization claims a European Union health and consumer inspection team which recently visited Chile, banned exports from four fish processing plants located in Puerto Montt.

• Friday, July 29th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  “Possible” third case of mad cow in US

  United States Agriculture Department is looking into a “possible” new case of mad cow in the country.

• Friday, July 29th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Venezuela is not the “centre of the universe”

  Washington does not view Venezuela as “the centre of the universe” said a top U.S. diplomat Wednesday when asked whether Washington fears a new “anti-imperialist” television network based in Caracas will expand the influence of leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

• Friday, July 29th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Ambassador Hughes confirms EU-Mercosur trade talks

  British Ambassador in Argentina John Hughes confirmed the resumption of bilateral talks next September between Mercosur and the European Union with the purpose of reaching a free trade agreement.