Mercosur

• Tuesday, March 15th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazilian cabinet reshuffle thinking in 2006 re-election.

  Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is expected to announce this week a major cabinet reshuffle giving greater participation to conservative parties with the purpose of paving the way for his re-election in 2006.

• Tuesday, March 15th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Poor ranking for S. American cities.

  Kidnapping, robberies and killings have placed Buenos Aires in position 115 of a world safety ranking which includes 215 cities in all continents. The safest is Luxembourg and at the other extreme figures Baghdad.

• Monday, March 14th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  New arsenal for Venezuela.

  The US military's senior officer responsible for security co-operation in Latin America has warned of the destabilising potential posed to the region by the Venezuelan government's controversial, and opaque, arms procurement programme.

• Monday, March 14th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  IAPA Meeting ends today in Panama.

  Inter America Press Association program ends today, March 14, with resolutions and conclusions, as well as the Closing Luncheon with the participation of Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr., editor of The New York Times.

• Monday, March 14th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Remittances for nearly $700 million.

  Argentines living abroad send more than nearly $700 million home a year; triple the level three years ago, the Clarin newspaper reported Sunday, citing National Migration Service figures.

• Monday, March 14th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Breaking News.

  Headlines:
  
  HMS Endurance scheduled in Punta Arenas; Clocks set back 60 minutes in Chile;
  Cruise season “positive” with 3% visitors increase; Cruise season “positive” with 3% visitors increase; Lan reduces weekly flights to Ushuaia; Private vessel for Antarctic scientific research; Chile increases air operational capability in Antarctica; US forestry volunteers in Torres del Paine.

• Monday, March 14th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Mexican among the world's four richest men

  A Mexican figures among the four richest men in the world according to the latest edition of the annual United States Forbes magazine ranking.

• Monday, March 14th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina and Chile wish for gas supply normalization.

  Argentina and Chile agreed Monday to continue strengthening their bilateral “strategic alliance” and overcome recent “trade differences” but could only politely hope for a quick normalization of natural gas supplies.

• Monday, March 14th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine Coast Guard “targets” fine paying trawlers

  Galician fishing captains in the South Atlantic are shocked with the recent arrest by an Argentine Coast Guard vessel of the Spanish flagged trawler “Jose Antonio Nores” which was caught supposedly poaching late February in Argentine waters, reports El Faro from Vigo.

• Sunday, March 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina deports German fugitive.

  Argentina has deported a former Nazi to Chile, where he is wanted on charges of sexually abusing children after two days to be arrested in Buenos Aires.