Lino Gutierrez, US Ambassador to Argentina, lowered the tone Thursday to a controversy caused by a US report alerting its citizens on the possible risks of traveling to Argentina.
Rocketed by strong oil prices and political stability Venezuela's economy surged 17,3 % in 2004 following two years of significant contraction, and according to a release from the Venezuelan Central Bank this was the largest increase since indexes began to be recorded.
China became in 2004 the world's main consumer of several basic items for industrial countries (commodities and energy), --displacing United States--, according to a report from the Washington based Earth Policy Institute.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe would be comfortably re-elected if the vote were held this week according to the latest public opinion polls, reported the country's main radio network Radio Caracol.
United States Central Intelligence Agency Director, Porter Goss identified Venezuela, Colombia, Haiti, Cuba and Mexico a countries potentially unstable in 2005.
The Kyoto Protocol, the historic treaty requiring cuts in gas emissions which cause global warming, took effect yesterday with the support of 141 nations.
The daughter of former Paraguayan President Raul Cubas Grau was found dead, months after she was abducted by heavily armed gunmen.
Updated damage assessments are shedding new light on the scope of material losses suffered by fisherfolk in southern Asia as a result of the December 2004 tsunami -- and the financial costs that will be involved in rehabilitating the affected region's all-important fisheries and aquaculture sectors.
Latin American and the Caribbean registered a record trade surplus of 82, 39 billion US dollars with the United States in 2004, according to the US Department of Commerce.
Conservative Deputy Severino Cavalcanti from the Progress Party was elected president of Brazil's Lower House, an unexpected defeat for the administration of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and setback for his reform plans.