Thousands of jostling, weeping admirers of Juan Domingo Peron tossed carnations and cheered the late political strongman today as his coffin was moved through clogged streets of Buenos Aires for reburial at a new mausoleum south-west of the Argentine capital.

Cuba’s Fidel Castro and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez rallied thousands of leftist sympathisers after a South American trade summit at Cordoba, in Argentina, railing against the US-backed free market policies they blame for many of Latin America’s woes.

ARGENTINA’S President Nestor Kirchner has said he wouldn’t hesitate to extend his ban on the country’s beef exports for a full year.

Hundreds of people could be charged with torture, disappearances and kidnapping babies during Argentina’s “dirty war” after the Supreme Court struck down amnesties passed in the 1980s.

THE world is about to face an energy crisis because the demand for oil keeps growing even though production is already at its maximum, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said yesterday.

More than 100,000 people marched through Argentina's capital Buenos Aires in a protest over crime, shouting “Justice! Justice!” in one of the country's largest demonstrations in years.