This weekend’s (July 18-20) events are symbolic of the theme that should prevail in the Brazilian diplomatic agenda over the next few weeks. Yet again, South America and the negotiations of the Doha Round at the World Trade Organization (WTO) will be in the spotlight.At...
For Hugo Chavez Spain's King Juan Carlos's "Shut up" comment during a row in a meeting last year has heal and it is time to offer a hug to King Juan Carlos. " The left-wing president, who will visit Spain...
" Santiago, Peru I showed this videos to several friends and family, but nobody seems to have a rational explanation of what is shown here. And why wait about 3 years?, well I filmed this, I show this to a lot of people including UFO researchers here in Chile and TV stations...
Puerto Montt. 2008 of a new century. A modern world, in a country in development way, but in a expectant moment of economics.
And the people in the picture's houses, living in a "vertical life": living day by a day...
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An originally postal picture in Puerto Montt city, in the south of Chile: a big tree in the middle of a many tombs's catholic cementery, placed in the top of a hill.
The force of a nature and the old age of a...
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As we get closer to the Olympics here in Vancouver, city leaders are cracking down on homelessness, security, and drug issues. It's not said outright, but it seems a lot like a last-minute attempt to clean up before...
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Many Canadians are probably unaware of our brand new "Free Trade" agreements, with Columbia and Peru, negotiated quickly, in secret and quietly signed with no fanfare. Who are we signing with, what are the...
Nazi hunters are searching for Aribert Heim a 94 year old former SS medical officer. " Nazi-hunters are now confident that Heim - who was known for his sadism as a doctor at the Nazi's Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria - is seeing out his twilight years near...
A spokesman for the Simon Weisenthal Center has announced that the organization is hot on the trail of a fugitive death camp doctor named Aribert Heim, who is believed to be hiding in Argentina or southern Chile." ...
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It's going to be an interesting couple of weeks for Chelsea with Inter chasing Frank Lampard and Inter Didier Drogba. It seems now Michael Ballack is in no rush to sign -- maybe he's waiting for the dust to settle? " Chelsea's new coach Luiz Felipe Scolari is set to face...
Non government public companies managing highway systems in Brazil are not something exactly that we can call new. It has been like that for more than 20 years now, but the idea is expanding. Brazil is privatizing...
Updates: On Tuesday 1 July 2008. As expected, Presidents attending the Mercosur Summit rejected the EU return policy. It stated it was a xenophobic policy. In a related event, Uruguayan journalist Eduardo...
Associate member countries of the Common Market of the South (Mercosur) are to be granted free transit of citizens within the bloc, a right currently limited to full members, the Brazilian Foreign Ministry announced...
The argument that increasing whale populations are behind declining fish stocks is completely without scientific foundation, leading researchers and conservation organizations said today as the International Whaling Commission opened its 60th meeting in Santiago, Chile.For...
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"The now-dominant left in South America has taken many forms – from the stridently anti-U.S. rhetoric of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Bolivia’s Evo Morales to the generally pro-Washington sentiments of...