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• Monday, November 1st 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Landslide victory and celebration in Uruguayan presidential election.

  A remarkable landmark in Uruguay's political history was achieved this Sunday when the left wing Broad Front-Progressive Encounter won by a landslide presidential and legislative elections thus breaking the uninterrupted dominance of the two traditional or historic parties that have ruled the country for the last 170 years.

• Monday, November 1st 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Lagos launches Chile's 2005 presidential race.

  Chile's ruling coalition Concertación, won this Sunday's municipal elections and although it failed in its attempt to hoist the main trophy, Santiago which remains under opposition control, President Ricardo Lagos described the victory as an anticipation of the 2005 presidential elections.

• Monday, November 1st 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  US congratulates incoming Uruguayan president.

  United States this Monday congratulated Uruguayan elected president Socialist Tabare Vazquez and the Uruguayan people on their peaceful exercise of the democratic process.

• Sunday, October 31st 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Breaking News from Pta. Arenas.

  Headlines:
  Antarctic residents vote in Chilean election; Lan Chile “welcomes competition”; Punta Arenas airport undergoing maintenance; Cruise season begins in southern Chile.

• Saturday, October 30th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Repsol YPF seismic surveying next to Falklands.

  “Western Patriot” belonging to a US-Norwegian company and contracted by the Spanish-Argentine consortium Repsol-YPF is seismic surveying an area extending between Falkland Islands and Tierra del Fuego reports the Argentine press.

• Saturday, October 30th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Kirchner opens renewed Rio Gallegos airport.

  Argentine president Nestor Kirchner officially inaugurated this week the renewed air terminal of Rio Gallegos which now also includes a 3,500 metres runway, one of the longest in the area.

• Saturday, October 30th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay: All set for vote.

  Despite an electoral curfew that started yesterday in Uruguay ? which silenced the public fervour sympathizers of all candidates had shown in the weeks leading to the country's election tomorrow ?the country continued to produce news.

• Saturday, October 30th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Glacier prepares new dramatic spectacle.

  The vast Perito Moreno glacier that lost an enormous wall of ice in a spectacular collapse in March is showing signs that another section could eventually break free, the La Nación newspaper reported yesterday.

• Friday, October 29th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Left wing coalition poised to win Uruguayan election.

  Tabaré Vázquez a 64-year-old doctor, former mayor of the capital Montevideo and leader of a left wing coalition with more than 50% of vote intention seems poised to become Uruguay's next president in Sunday's general election with out the need of a run-off at the end of November.

• Friday, October 29th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Majority of Hispanic voters support Kerry.

  Most Hispanic U.S. voters support Democrat John Kerry in next week's presidential election and think President George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq was a mistake, according to a new poll by The Washington Post, Univision and a Latino affairs think tank.