News stories by IPS Correspondents, page 87

LIMA, Nov 08 (IPS) - A Peruvian delegation in Santiago began talks Tuesday on a proposed free trade zone with Chile. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said the group would present lists of products that would fall under different tariff classifications.

KINGSTON, Nov 08 (IPS) - Bauxite seems set to once again regain its premier position in the economy if government's plans for the sector materialises.

LIMA, Nov 08 (IPS) - Peruvian Ministerial Advisor Fritz Du Bois said his country expected the private banksto which the government owes 6.6 billion dollarsto accept a Brady Plan similar to the one negotiated by Poland.

CARACAS, Nov 08 (IPS) - Venezuelan banks have two months to implement inspections and controls to uncover laundering operations of drug trafficking money, the governmental Commission Against the Illicit Use of Drugs announced Tuesday.

PANAMA, Nov 08 (IPS) - Colonel Richard Holihan of the U.S. Southern Command in Panama said Tuesday that keeping the 10,000 Cuban boat people brought to Panama from the Guantanamo base in Cuba will cost U.S. taxpayers nearly 65 million dollars.

ROME, Nov 08 (IPS) - A climate favourable to human rights violations such as occurred during Argentina's 1976-83 military dictatorship is returning to the South American country, a reknowned group of human rights activists denounced Tuesday in Italy.

WASHINGTON, Nov 08 (IPS) - Five years after taking power, the military regime which rules Sudan has effectively banned all forms of political opposition in the country, according to a new report released here Thursday by a Human Rights Watch/Africa (HRW/Africa).

SANTIAGO, Nov 08 (IPS) - Chilean President Eduardo Frei said Tuesday that his country's upcoming Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) membership would allow all of South America increased participation in the Pacific region.

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 08 (IPS) - Despite opposition from Rwanda's new government, the U.N. Security Council Tuesday authorised the creation of an ad hoc tribunal to judge the massacres and genocide which occurred this year in the Central African nation.

AMMAN, Nov 08 (IPS) - Palestinian women are facing the prospect of limited access to resources, social services and legal rights in their fledgling new state, according to a newly published report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).