Morning briefs

* Newsweek discussed the new “proxy war” between Washington versus Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez (image on a mural with Chè Guevara and Emiliano Zapata).

* The ruling party in Uruguay proposed legalizing all civil unions regardless of sexual preference.

* Chile hopes to be independent of natural gas from Argentina by 2008.

Links- ABC News (Australia), People’s Online Daily (China), Newsweek

Image – Flickr

Tags - Uruguay, Venezuela, Chile, Argentina, gas, international economy, international politics