Today, the plant is mostly grown in China, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Iran, Turkey, Morocco, Egypt, Syria, Mexico, Chile and India.

And we found that in Chile within two months of the invasion of Peru you had strains entering Chile and when you look at those strains, in the very far left hand side of this graph, you see a lot of variation in the toxin production.

But we've got a lot of variation in antibiotic sensitivity in Chile, Peru and Ecuador, and no trend across the years.

I think if you look at what is happening in Brazil in particular, but also Chile, which was in many ways the one that led the way in transforming the institutions of economic life, there's a very bright future indeed.

In Chile, artisanal fisheries received only 2 percent of the quota in the horse mackerel fishery, too little to maintain current fishing effort when individual non transferable quotas were created in 2001.