Mercosur

• Monday, July 4th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina: Breaking News

  Headlines:
  Trans-Andean tunnel closed again ; Tourism fourth-largest currency earner; TGN: 800 million dollars a year needed; Death at Carlos Menem's birthday party; Chile terrorist extradition to be decided today; Olivera vs Bielsa.

• Monday, July 4th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Chilean president will leave in March.

  Chilean President Ricardo Lagos, who is enjoying a high approval rating, said he had no plans to run again in 2010, adding that the key in politics was knowing when to quit.

• Monday, July 4th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Brown: G8 cannot mend Africa alone

  British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown yesterday played down the ability of the Group of Eight nations to provide quick solutions for African poverty, saying that solving the continent's problems will take a lifetime of empowering local communities

• Monday, July 4th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Mexico: A good day for PRI

  Exit polls indicated that the party that governed Mexico for seven decades had won a strong victory yesterday in the country's largest state, the most important state race before next year's presidential elections.

• Sunday, July 3rd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  ENAP looking for natural gas in Tierra del Fuego

  ENAP, Chile's government owned Oil Company believes that there's enough natural gas in Tierra del Fuego to supply 25% of the country's demand, ensuring a reliable provision of gas to Magallanes Region main industry, Methanex.

• Sunday, July 3rd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Dominican assumes presidency of OAS Permanent Council

  The Dominican Republic's new ambassador to the Organization of American States, OAS, Roberto Alvarez on Friday assumed the presidency of the Permanent Council promising to develop “an agenda of consensus to deal with the hemisphere's great challenges”

• Sunday, July 3rd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Live 8 rocks from Tokyo to Johannesburg

  Bono effortlessly worked the crowd. Half a globe away, Bjork strutted the stage. Bill Gates was cheered like a rock star. And on the continent that inspired Saturday's unprecedented Live 8 extravaganza, Nelson Mandela outshone them all.

• Sunday, July 3rd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina: Gov't sees no accord

  Interior Minister Aníbal Fernández yesterday said that “there is no possibility” of an agreement between followers of President Néstor Kirchner and former interim president Eduardo Duhalde to draw a single slate of legislative candidates for the October midterm election.

• Saturday, July 2nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Record export and trade surplus in Brazil

  Brazil achieved a record 4,03 billion US dollars trade surplus in June, bringing its total surplus so far for the year to 19,67 billion, the government announced Friday.

• Saturday, July 2nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Higher interest rates anticipated in Wall Street

  An overwhelming majority of Wall Street economists and analysts believe the United States Federal Reserve will again raise interest rates in the next meeting scheduled for early August.