Mercosur

• Monday, November 4th 2002 - 20:00 UTC

  Annual Anglo-Argentine talks on “key international issues”

  Argentina and the United Kingdom have agreed to hold annual talks at what they call “senior level” on key international where they have a mutual interest.
  
  The decision was made at talks in London between British Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, and the Argentine Foreign Minister, Carlos Ruckhauf, on his official visit to Britain.

• Friday, November 1st 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Opposition to U.S. farm subsidies fires FTAA talks

  Calls for the elimination of U.S. farm subsidies have fired the talks of representatives from 34 nations in the Western Hemisphere gathered here for a ministerial meeting in Quito on the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas .

• Thursday, October 31st 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Four Uruguay Cabinet Members Quit

  Four ministers in President Jorge Batlle's Cabinet have resigned to protest his handling of the economy, escalating a crisis in his ruling coalition.

• Wednesday, October 30th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Lula begins long, hard road to reforming Brazilian society

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil's leftist president-elect, is seeking a broad consensus in order to try to deal with problems as big as his sprawling country.

• Tuesday, October 29th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Breaking News

  Headlines: Praise from Wall Street; Crucial FTAA meeting; US record budget deficit; Poverty grows in Latinamerica

• Monday, October 28th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Lula's ambitious program for the needy

  “I expect financial markets to cool down now that we have the election results”, was one of the first remarks of Brazil's elected president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

• Monday, October 28th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Menem picking up

  Former president Carlos Menem is the only pre candidate for the coming Argentine presidential election that seems to be picking up support according to the latest opinion poll published in Buenos Aires last weekend.
  Forecasting an upturn in Argentina; Pending differences with the IMF

• Sunday, October 27th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Mexico ? Oil / Venezuela - Court

  Mexico could increase oil production in the event of a war in Iraq, the director of state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) said yesterday.

• Friday, October 25th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Mercosur, top priority for Lula

  Reconstruction of Mercosur, following its two largest members Argentina and Brazil economic crisis, will become “the main priority of our foreign policy”, wrote Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, most certainly Brazil's next president in this coming Sunday's runoff.

• Thursday, October 24th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Confidence in da Silva policy lifts markets

  Brazilian financial markets rose strongly on Wednesday morning amid growing expectations that an incoming Workers' party (PT) government may be able to maintain economic stability and advance structural reforms.