Mercosur

• 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.

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

  New bad news for Menem.

  A judge yesterday threw out two prison exemption requests filed by followers of former Peronist president Carlos Menem, who lives in Chile and is on the run from Argentine courts.

• Wednesday, December 1st 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Breaking News.

  Headlines:
  
  Chilean cruises directly from Antarctica; Expo-Magallanes next January;
  Computerized Magallanes Clinic; Aircraft parking in Chilean Antarctic base.