Mercosur

• Monday, May 2nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Petrobras to double gas pipeline capacity

  State-owned petroleum giant Petrobras is to begin work this year on seven new pipelines that will more than double its capacity to transport natural gas within Brazil, O Globo daily reported Monday.

• Monday, May 2nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Bielsa: Mercosur ready to retake FTAA talks

  Argentine Foreign Affairs minister Rafael Bielsa denied Monday that the 34 hemispheric countries project for a Free Trade Association of the Americas, FTAA, is “dead”.

• Monday, May 2nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Majority of Venezuelans don't believe in the “Socialist way”

  A majority of Venezuelans support the performance of President Hugo Chavez administration, according to the latest opinion poll from Datanalisis published Monday in Caracas main dailies.

• Monday, May 2nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  OAS: unity but with several conditions

  Jose Miguel Insulza the newly elected Secretary General of the Organization of American States, OAS, underscored in his acceptance speech that in his new post he will defend the interests of all country members.

• Monday, May 2nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Santiago will host world tourism summit

  Santiago de Chile will be hosting the XLIII Meeting of the World Tourism Organization, OMT, for the Americas scheduled May 24/26 in the framework of the V Chilean Tourism Summit it was officially announced Monday by Tourism Office officials.

• Monday, May 2nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Malvinas in EU Constitution, “unfortunately affect us”

  Argentine Defence minister Jose Pampuro said Monday that Argentina “has growing international support” for its Falkland Islands sovereignty claim although admitting that the fact that the archipelago has been included as a British Overseas Territory in the European Constitutional Treaty, “unfortunately affects us”.

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

  Mexico City's Mayor king of the political arena

  Mexico City's Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador hailed President Vicente Fox' decision to shelve criminal charges against him, thus clearing the way for the most popular candidate to run in next year's presidential election

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

  EU candidate favourite for WTO post

  Paul Lamy from the European Union and Ambassador Carlos Perez del Castillo from Uruguay are the two candidates left for the post of Secretary General of the World Trade Organization following the second round of consultations which eliminated Mauritius Island Foreign Affairs Minister Jaya Cuttaree.

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

  Insulza, consensus candidate for OAS

  Chile's candidate emerged Friday as the favourite for the Organization of American States Secretary General post after Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez in a surprise move withdrew his bid.

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

  S. American leftist governments' common agenda

  High-ranking officials of the leftist governments of Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay met Friday in Montevideo and forged “a common agenda” for southern South America.