Mercosur

• Sunday, December 5th 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  South American Community not to compete with OAS.

  Peruvian Foreign Minister Manuel Rodriguez Cuadros said on Saturday that the future South American Community of Nations will neither seek to minimize nor compete with the Organization of American States (OAS) because the two are complementary.

• Friday, December 3rd 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Korean jigger accident with ammoniac gas.

  For the fifth time this year a Korean fishing vessel moored in the port of Montevideo experienced a leak of ammoniac gas with several crewmembers injured.

• Friday, December 3rd 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Lan Chile begins flights to Ushuaia

  Lan Chile began this Wednesday three weekly flights to Ushuaia in Argentine Tierra del Fuego, with stops in Puerto Montt and Punta Arenas.

• Friday, December 3rd 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  EU urges negotiations to end Colombian conflict.

  The European Commission believes Colombia will not solve its decades-old internal conflict with a strictly military approach and suggested negotiations should be explored.

• Thursday, December 2nd 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  US concerned with Venezuela's MiGs purchase.

  A senior US President Bush administration official was critical of Venezuela's plans to acquire Russian-made MiG-29 fighter jets, adding that the United States “shoots down” this type of warplane.

• Thursday, December 2nd 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Killer of Chilean Senator arrested in Argentina

  A Chilean judge on Wednesday indicted for murder and kidnapping a left-wing extremist arrested this week in Argentina

• Thursday, December 2nd 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Navy and Carabineros accept “individual excesses”

  Carabineros, Chile's militarized police acknowledged that its members carried out human rights violations during the 1973-1990 dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet and condemned the repressive acts.

• Thursday, December 2nd 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Mercury contamination in Amazon basin.

  Amazon basin representatives began discussing in Rio do Janeiro combating the potentially disastrous effects of tons of highly toxic mercury that illegal low-tech gold miners dump every year into the streams and rivers that make up the planet's biggest reserve of fresh water

• Thursday, December 2nd 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Live fire accident in Brazilian-Argentine naval exercise.

  An Argentine warship inadvertently fired on a Brazilian frigate during joint naval exercises in the Atlantic Ocean injuring five people, none of them seriously.

• Thursday, December 2nd 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Fisheries News.

  Headlines:
  Patagonian toothfish migration under scientific scrutiny; Argentine fisheries exports: 676 million US dollars; Laboratory-bred hake spawn for the first time; Chile will reduce common hake quota; Claims of deliberate squid by catching in Argentina; Chile and Argentina resume “prelisting” certification.