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• Monday, July 11th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Another chance for Bolivian presidential hopeful

  Bolivian Congressman and peasant leader Evo Morales who finished second in the 2002 presidential race announced officially Sunday that he would seek Bolivia's presidency in December 4 general elections.

• Monday, July 11th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Texas: 29 cattle sacrificed and tested for BSE

  Twenty nine livestock from a Texas herd have been sacrificed and Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis, BSE, “mad cow” tests will be done on samples, reported the United States Department of Agriculture.

• Monday, July 11th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Velvet and fist battle for the province of Buenos Aires

  The full fledged political dispute for the province of Buenos Aires was confirmed this weekend when Argentine president Nestor Kirchner and former caretaker president Eduardo Duhalde openly supported their hand picked candidates for the Senate which happen to be their respective wive

• Monday, July 11th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Squid prospecting to begin 18 July in the northern zone

  The National Institute for Fisheries Research and Development (INIDEP) recommended to the Federal Fisheries Council (CFP) to launch, next 18 July, the prospecting of Argentine shortfin squid (Illex argentinus) in the northern area of the Argentine fishing ground, which also includes the Common Fishing Zone (ZOCOPES) shared by Argentina and Uruguay.

• Monday, July 11th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Mexico ruling party prepares for presidential election

  Santiago Creel, a former Interior minister in the administration of Mexican President Vicente Fox, officially registered to run for the nomination of the ruling National Action Party (PAN).

• Monday, July 11th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Mitterrand authorized “Rainbow Warrior” sabotage

  The sabotage of the Greenpeace flagship the Rainbow Warrior 20 years ago in New Zealand was carried out with the “personal authorization” of France's late president François Mitterrand, documents showed last Satruday.

• Monday, July 11th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Fuel smuggling from Argentina intensifies

  Chilean Customs authorities have detected and warned about a considerable increase in the smuggling of cheap Argentine fuel into Magallanes region.

• Monday, July 11th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  A quarter of Latinamerica lives on 2 dollars pd

  A quarter of the Latinamerican population subsists on less than two US dollars per day, compared to the one US dollar of half the Sub-Sahara and black Africa population according to the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB), Poverty Department.

• Sunday, July 10th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Illicit money web closer and closer to Lula da Silva

  There seems to be no end to the barrage of accusations against Brazilian president Lula da Silva's administration, his Workers Party and now his family, more specifically his eldest son, Fabio, a true history of rags to riches.

• Saturday, July 9th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  G8 aid for Africa in terror shadow

  Tony Blair on Friday highlighted the commitment of the Group of Eight industrial nations to alleviate poverty in Africa and contrasted it with the “cruelty” of the London bomb attacks.