Mexico
Officials in Mexico City have been ordered to leave their cars behind and cycle to work once a month. The new city regulation that has just come into force is aimed at reducing traffic and pollution in one of the most congested cities in the world. About four million cars travel every day through the city of more than 18 million people - and officials say their aim is to cut pollution as well as disease. (BBC)
Peru
President Alan Garcia has ordered the use of warplanes to destroy clandestine airstrips and drug laboratories in the Amazon jungle. Garcia said drug barons must also be pursued and warned that Peru could face an insurgency funded by illicit drugs. Peru must kill the drug-trafficking trade or have to deal with an insurgency like that of neighboring Colombia, Garcia said. Peru is the second-largest producer of cocaine in the world after Colombia. (Reuters)
United States
The US has said more than 60 of its main trading partners engage in unfair practices and that copyright theft in China remains its main concern. In a report to Congress, the US Trade Representative said US companies were facing "significant" barriers to trade and investment around the world. It said it would refer China to the WTO unless it did more to protect intellectual property. It also pledged to continue its fight to curb subsidies to European plane-maker Airbus. (BBC)
Venezuela
Venezuela will set up a South American development bank this year with other countries in the region, hopefully before the end of the first half, Finance Minister Rodrigo Cabezas said Friday. He made the comments after holding meetings in Caracas with finance officials from Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Ecuador. Venezuela plans to locate the Bank of the South's head office in Caracas, with secondary headquarters in Argentina. (Dow Jones)
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