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• Tuesday, March 8th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Czech Republic helps with Torres del Paine recovery

  Chilean Agriculture Minister Jaime Campos downplayed the environmental impact of the Torres del Paine park forest fire which ravaged since mid February and announced Chile and the Czech republic will be collaborating in the restoration of Chilean Patagonia's main wild life attraction.

• Tuesday, March 8th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Lan Chile interested in Southern Winds

  Chilean flag carrier Lan admitted it was holding talks for a possible purchase or association with Argentine airline Southern Winds.

• Tuesday, March 8th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  All ready for the next Bolivian confrontation.

  The delicate political situation in Bolivia edged higher when President Carlos Mesa, as he had anticipated, formally presented Monday his resignation before Congress which now has 48 hours to accept or reject it.

• Tuesday, March 8th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Chilean and Argentine cadets in naval cruise

  Forty two Argentine naval cadets will be participating in the Chilean Navy's fiftieth instruction cruise aboard the “Esmeralda” which leaves March 13 from Valparaiso.

• Tuesday, March 8th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Women still lagging, even in EU

  Little progress has been made in terms of women's equality in the workplace and portrayal in the media in the European Union, an EU conference concluded yesterday, on the eve of International Women's Day.

• Monday, March 7th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Bolivian president offer his resignation today.

  Bolivian President Carlos Mesa announced Sunday that he would submit his resignation to Congress, saying in a nationally televised speech that growing protests against his government were “blocking” the country.

• Monday, March 7th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Chilean Communist Party leader dead at 63

  Gladys Marin, the combative leader of the Chilean Communist Party who became a symbol in the fight against the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, died early Sunday after a long fight with cancer, the party reported. She was 63.

• Monday, March 7th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay: Punta del Este sparkles once more.

  It was shortly after midnight on a warm summer night at the harbor in Punta del Este, Uruguay, and tanned young couples were streaming out of restaurants, wondering what to do next.

• Monday, March 7th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Former US ambassador warned about plot to kill Chavez

  Venezuelan Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel revealed in an interview published Sunday in a Peruvian newspaper that former U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela Charles Shapiro warned him of a possible plot to kill President Hugo Chavez.

• Monday, March 7th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  “U2” singer Bono, World Bank president candidate

  United States Secretary of the Treasury John Snow did not discard Bono from the Irish rock group “U2”, and a great fighter for the cancelling of poor countries debts, as a candidate to preside over the multilateral World Bank, WB.