Too many immigrants / Chile after new trade links / I feel am a gaucho / Another trouble spot? / US spurs trade round with Chile / Extra digit in Chilean cellular
With less than a week before next Sunday's Colombian presidential election the candidate that has promised an iron fist fight against the guerrilla movement, Alvaro Uribe, leads comfortably with 49,3% of vote intention, more than doubling his runner up, Mr. Horacio Serpa with 23%, according to a poll published in Bogotá's main daily newspaper, El Tiempo.
Argentine public opinion is split down quiet evenly regarding the convenience or not of reaching an agreement with the International Monetary Fund to obtain much needed financial assistance to overcome the current crisis.
US President George Bush is expected this week to adopt a harder line towards Cuba leaving no doubts as to where his administration stands following the bridge-building historic visit of former president Jimmy Carter, who during a speech in Havana, called for more civil liberties in the island but also the lifting of the forty years US trade and communications embargo.
The Cairns Group, Mercosur and other Latinamerican countries highly dependent on agricultural commodities condemned United States for a bill that will hand out 190 billion US dollars to US farmers during the next ten years.
The Latinamerican-European Union summit to be held this week in Madrid, a step more towards the attainment of a strategic association agreement between the two blocks, is expected to announce the conclusion of talks for a free trade agreement with Chile and the updating of a similar successful agreement with Mexico.
French built Mirage fighter bombers from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and France participated during a week in the Southern Cross joint air co-ordination exercises in Southern Brazil.
According to a survey from the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 587,000 Argentines reside permanently overseas. Of this number, 220,845 are officially registered in Argentine consulates, while the rest, 366,000 not registered, is an estimate of the different consular offices.
Record low flock / Uruguayan beef makes a come back
Three reasons / Social credit for Argentina