Mercosur

• Monday, May 16th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Venezuela regime “must change or be changed”

  The Washington Center for Security Policy warned that the increasingly repressive - and aggressive ? government in Venezuela must either “change or be changed” if the region is to avoid the terrible human costs of a new generation of revolutionary upheaval.

• Monday, May 16th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  LAN and Argentina discuss non profitable lines

  The Argentine government and Lan Chile's affiliate in Argentina which begins operations next month in the domestic market can't agree on the coverage of some non profitable lines such as flights to Rio Gallegos.

• Monday, May 16th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Breaking News

  Headlines:
  
  Patagonia Tourism Development Corporation; Magallanes salmon production, 6,000 tons; Heart operations in Punta Arenas;
  Magallanes Region economy steaming ahead.

• Monday, May 16th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Spain preparing to expel undocumented immigrants

  Spain's Socialist government warned Monday that the undocumented immigrants who were not eligible under the current amnesty must leave the country.

• Saturday, May 14th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina traps Korean jigger poaching

  The Argentine Coast Guard arrested Thursday midday a Korean flagged jigger allegedly poaching north of Comodoro Rivadavia with over 200 tons of squid. This is the sixth vessel Argentina catches illegally fishing in its EEZ since the season began.

• Saturday, May 14th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Ms. Rice's positive and negative populism

  United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice promised before the US Congress to resist what she described as growing “undemocratic populism” in Latinamerica.

• Saturday, May 14th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  WTO: Lamy wins race for top job

  Pascal Lamy of France has won the race to lead the World Trade Organization and should be appointed later this month, the head of the selection panel said yesterday.

• Saturday, May 14th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  New York court lifts Argentine bond freeze

  A New York appeals court lifted a freeze on $7bn of Argentine defaulted bonds, removing what Buenos Aires had claimed was an obstacle to completing its record $100bn debt-restructuring.

• Friday, May 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Foot-and-mouth scare threatens New Zealand

  As farmers and exporters in this nation of ten times more sheep than people hope a foot-and-mouth scare turns out to be a hoax, analysts warned yesterday that if it proves true, the disease could devastate the nation's economy.

• Thursday, May 12th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  FCO: no surprises in EU constitution

  In a brief release the United Kingdom Embassy in Brazil pointed out Wednesday that references to the Falkland Islands as a British Overseas Territory in the European Constitution are expressed in identical terms to those in European Union treaties since Britain joined in 1971.