Argentina butts into Chile-Peru liquor dustup
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Chilean producers of a grape brandy known as Pisco petitioned their government on Friday to stop an Argentine producer from selling the product in Europe under the same name, which Peru also claims as its own.
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South America is turning the largely untapped frontier heartland of the continent into the world's new breadbasket.
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CUZCO, Peru  - South American leaders on Wednesday  launched a regional integration pact they said would go beyond  rhetoric and usher in European-style unity, but only half the  future bloc's 12 presidents turned up to sign it.
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A cargo of farmed Chilean salmon tainted with a potentially harmful toxin and rejected for import in Europe has returned to Chile and could be re-exported to a country with less stringent laws, consumer and environmental groups warned.
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Strikes and street protests have paralysed swathes of Peru and rattled President Alan Garcia's government, tarnishing what had been considered one of South America's great political comebacks.
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October 11, 2004. The latest round of World Cup qualifiers in South America have produced some interesting results at nearly the half-way mark.
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About 700 people were evacuated as a volcano erupted Wednesday in southern Chile, rocking the area with explosions and spewing lava and ash.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - The governments of 10 South American countries signed an agreement on Friday to allow their citizens to travel within the region without passports.
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In his first overseas trip since his reelection, President Bush arrived in Chile on Friday to use what he calls his &quot;new capital&quot; to press the 21 nations of
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BUENOS AIRES -- The twisted mystery of an $800,000 suitcase confiscated in Argentina has kicked up so much dirt that almost everyone who gets near it -- even if clean -- is accused of being filthy.
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Peru declares a state of emergency in an Andean region where army reservists have seized a police station.
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Peru thrash Uruguay 3-0 in the first match of the Copa America, while hosts Venezuela draw 2-2 with Bolivia.
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Thereâsa new leader atop the CONMEBOL standings after round 11 of qualifying. Ecuador handed world champions Brazil their first qualifying defeat 1-0 in Quito, and Argentina moved into first with a 3-2 win over Venezuela.
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Latin America is finally owning up to its "dirty wars" &#151; the nightmarish campaigns of state-sponsored violence in which hundreds of thousands died or "disappeared." But the death of Chile's Gen. Augusto Pinochet shows the continent's leftist leaders of today must act fast to expose the truth while the masterminds of this savagery are still alive.
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Heavy snows battered the Andean border region of Argentina and Chile on Wednesday, forcing the closure of a key mountain highway connecting the two countries and idling thousands of trucks.
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Holders Argentina beat Chile 3-0 in their Under-20 World Cup semifinal on Thursday to set up a final with the Czech Republic.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - Argentina began the New  Year on a grim note as families identified and prepared for  burial 174 victims of a fire in a Buenos Aires rock club,  including children and babies who might have died in a  makeshift nursery in the bathroom.