Michelle Bachelet is pulling away in Chile's presidential race:
Forty-eight percent of 1,505 people polled from June 11 to July 3 at their homes said they would vote for Bachelet if elections were held the following Sunday, Chile's Center For Public Studies said on its Web site. Forty-six percent backed Bachelet when asked to cast a written ballot, the Santiago-based group said. The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.7 percentage points.
Her primary opponent on the right, Joaquin Lavin isn't doing so well:
Joaquin Lavin, a member of the opposition Independent Democratic Union party who ran for president and lost in 2000, received 22 percent of votes, whether spoken or written.
In other news from Chile, Pinochet's constitution is effectively dead:
Chile's Senate has voted to replace elements of the country's constitution left over from the military rule of General Augusto Pinochet.
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Prominent among the new measures is a restoration of the president's power to fire senior military commanders.
A number of appointed Senate seats, usually awarded to military or police figures, are also being abolished.
Now just convict the old bastard, make him forfeit his lucre and the story will be complete.
Argentina has admitted that it has failed to find the AMIA bombers of ten years ago. At least under Kirchner (unlike Ménem) they tried to.
Adam Isacson shows an instance of Colombian President Uribe being typically arrogant.
Some friendly advice. If you don't like Lula, don't call him an idiot. At least not on the floor of Brazil's Senate.
I'm back on Saturday.
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