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Online news digest covering political, economic and social issues in South America. Published by the Latin American Data Base at the University of New Mexico.
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ARGENTINA: ROUTINE LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS TAKE ON MORE IMPORTANCE.
June 26, 2009... By Andres Gaudin
On June 28, nearly 28 million Argentines will go to the polls to elect half (128) the members of the Chamber of Deputies, one-third (24) of the Senate, and hundreds of other lower-ranking officials. Amid a turbulent campaign, charged with rumors and insults, with the...
PERU-U.S. FREE-TRADE AGREEMENT SIGNED INTO LAW AFTER U.S. CONGRESS APPROVES.
January 11, 2008... A free-trade agreement (FTA) between the US and Peru passed through both houses of the US Congress and became law with the signatures of the two nations' presidents in the final months of 2007. The pact, know as the US-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement (PTPA), received support from the relevant...
PERU: FIRST TRIAL AGAINST FORMER PRESIDENT ALBERTO FUJIMORI ENDS IN SIX-YEAR SENTENCE.
January 11, 2008... A top Peruvian court has sentenced former President Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) to six years in prison in the first of several trials on human rights and corruption charges against him. On Dec. 11, the court handed down the sentence of six years and a fine of hundreds of thousands of soles...
BRAZIL: SENATE PRESIDENT RENAN CALHEIROS RESIGNS.
January 4, 2008... Brazil's former head of the Senate, Renan Calheiros, resigned early in December while under investigation for charges of corruption. He had taken a leave of absence to fight the allegations (see NotiSur, 2007-10-26), with Brazilian media reporting that the government of President Luiz Inacio...
URUGUAYAN CELLULOSE PLANT OPENS DESPITE ARGENTINE OBJECTIONS AFTER TALKS FAIL.
January 4, 2008... The bilateral conflict between Argentina and Uruguay regarding a US$1.2 billion Uruguayan cellulose pulp mill worsened in the final months of 2007. Argentine environmentalists, generally backed by the Argentine government, say two plants being built along on a river the two countries share...