Topics of Particular Importance

Andean
16/10- BOLIVIA: Morales announces mining nationalisation
16/10- BOLIVIA: Government claims bases just super customs posts
17/10- BOLIVIA: Audit shows cost of nationalisation
18/10- BOLIVIA: Morales alleges assassination attempt
20/10- BOLIVIA: Morales reappoints commanders
16/10- COLOMBIA: New most-wanted list for cocaine trade
17/10- COLOMBIA: Pastrana criticises para peace process
18/10- COLOMBIA: Southcom chief calls for US funding cut
19/10- COLOMBIA: Congressmen investigated over AUC links
20/10- COLOMBIA: Car bomb explodes at military college in Bogotá
16/10- ECUADOR: Surprise result puts Noboa in run-off with Correa
17/10- ECUADOR: Vote system collapses prompting fraud claims
18/10- ECUADOR: OAS finds no evidence of fraud
19/10- ECUADOR: Official results confirm Noboa's victory
20/10- ECUADOR: Correa tries to neutralise the Chávez factor
19/10- PERU: De Soto fears that FTA is in trouble
17/10- REGION: Impasse on UN Security Council vote
18/10- REGION: Still no winner in UN Security Council vote
20/10- REGION: Impasse continues at UN; five-day recess called
16/10- VENEZUELA: Chile to abstain on UN vote

Brazil & Southern Cone
16/10- ARGENTINA: More protests against paper mills
17/10- ARGENTINA: Government flouts free-press calls
19/10- ARGENTINA: Peronist factions clash at Perón's reburial
20/10- ARGENTINA: Gas deal signed with Bolivi
16/10- BRAZIL: Lula hands out more cash to win votes
17/10- BRAZIL: Justice minister implicated in scandal again
18/10- BRAZIL: Lula increases his lead in poll
19/10- BRAZIL: Interest-rate cut enters electoral arena
19/10- BRAZIL: PT shenanigans haunt Lula
20/10- BRAZIL: Candidates change their tune in civilised debate
18/10- CHILE: Congress to discuss scrapping Codelco army funding
19/10- CHILE: Police arrest 300 in student protests
17/10- REGION: Foreign direct investment up 3% in 2005
18/10- URUGUAY: World Bank to approve loan for one mill
20/10- URUGUAY: Vázquez sacks army commander

Caribbean & Central America
17/10- HAITI: Police officials train in the Dominican Republic
18/10- HONDURAS & EL SALVADOR: Maritime dispute heats up
16/10- NICARAGUA: Observers fear delay in election results
20/10- NICARAGUA: Pressure on Montealegre to step down
17/10- PANAMA: Syndrome traced back to public laboratory
20/10- PANAMA: Referendum on canal expansion on Sunday

Mexico & Nafta
16/10- MEXICO: López Obrador loses in Tabasco
17/10- MEXICO: Calderón lures Carstens from the IMF
18/10- MEXICO: Senate recoils from ruling over Oaxaca
19/10- MEXICO: Senate refuses to declare power vacuum in Oaxaca
20/10- MEXICO: Calderón to visit Bush on 9 November
19/10- REGION: Remittances to hit US$60bn

Regional statistics
16/10- Argentina; Brazil; Colombia & Mexico
17/10- Chile & Peru
18/10- Brazil; Central America; Chile; Costa Rica; El Salvador
19/10- Brazil & Costa Rica
20/10- Brazil

Afternoon features
16/10- Regional focus - Central America & Caribbean
17/10- People Profile - Alvaro Noboa
18/10- Washington Watch - 18 October 2006
19/10- Security update - Oaxaca uprising uncovers concern about 'armed groups'