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• Wednesday, March 2nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Chavez: Uruguay has joined the continent's “left trend”

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the self proclaimed leader of the “anti-imperialist” consensus in South America said in Montevideo Wednesday that with the inauguration of President Tabare Vazquez administration, Uruguay is now part of this growing movement.

• Tuesday, March 1st 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguayan wins first Oscar for a Spanish song.

  The Oscar was more than a prize for Uruguayan composer and singer Jorge Drexler, who used his statuette for Best Original Song as an opportunity to show the Academy Sunday evening what it means to sing in Spanish and win a moral victory.

• Tuesday, March 1st 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Pragmatism and seduction mark new Uruguayan president.

  Soft spoken Tabare Vazquez who takes office Tuesday as Uruguay's next elected president is the fourth child of an oil refinery worker and the first oncologist to come out of the working class Montevideo neighborhood of La Teja.

• Tuesday, March 1st 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Signal left, but turn right.

  Latinamerica's presidential elite, with the exception of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, plus representatives from over a hundred countries will be present Tuesday at the inauguration ceremony of Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez. An event that could be interpreted as a sensitive diplomatic and political realignment in the region.

• Monday, February 28th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  U.N.: Population to top 9 billion by 2050.

  The world's population will rise from 6.5 billion to 9.1 billion by 2050, according to a United Nations survey released Thursday.

• Monday, February 28th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Riggs Bank to create Pinochet victim fund.

  A Spanish judge on Friday dropped fraud and money laundering charges filed against Riggs Bank in the United States in connection with millions of dollars deposited there by former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

• Monday, February 28th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Fisheries News.

  Headlines:
  Trawler caught in South Atlantic EEZ limits tangle; Argentina's toothfish TAC: 2,250 tons; Poor Illex catches but better than 2004.

• Monday, February 28th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Venezuela insists with US plot against Chavez

  Venezuela whose leftist president Hugo Chavez claims the United States plans to kill him, said Monday that it has beefed up maritime and air-space “vigilance” following the announcement of U.S. military exercises near Curacao, an island off the country's northern coast.

• Saturday, February 26th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Restoration program for Torres del Paine

  A restoration program for the 14,000 hectares of Torres del Paine National Park consumed by a fire that has been raging for over a week was trusted to the Chilean Forestry Corporation, reported Chilean acting Agriculture Minister Arturo Barrera.

• Saturday, February 26th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazilian Central Bank insists with tight money

  Brazil's Central Bank will continue to raise the basic interest rate, Selic, and will keep it high for a considerable period, in spite of declining inflation risks and strong criticism from business and unions.