They should be, but you never know with cyanide. I once had a tour on the 4th of January. I came with McEwen and lost 3 sprinting stages while my opponent was Richeze! I did all i could to make McEwen in good shape but it just didn't work.
It had no use to include any South American races, as there wasn't any Colombian or Venezuelan teams into this year's db. Even we'll have to take the Colombian champs out of the db since there are less than 20 riders into a team in 2008.