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Oil and gas show in Comodoro

As part of the century celebrations of Comodoro Rivadavia, the Argentine Oil and Gas Institute organised a show with the participation of the main companies and suppliers operating in the area, a show that attracted over 40.000 visitors. "This is a tribute from the oil industry to honor the city of Comodoro Rivadavia", said Clara Díaz Bobillo spokesperson for the company responsible for organizing the celebration that occupied 3.000 roofed square meters of a local school gym and an even greater area in the playground. Participating companies with some of the 60 stands included Repsol-YPF, Perez Companc, Tecpetrol, Tuboscope Vetco Argentina, Pan American Energy, Camuzzi Gasa del Sur, plus distinguished experts who gave conferences about the industry's development in Comorodoro Rivadavia. Precisely in one of the stands there was a video on the history of the city founded February 23rd. 2001 by Italian businessman Franceso Pietrobelli in response to the need of a harbor for the inland farming community of Sarmiento. The pioneer farmers who settled in Sarmiento were mostly Italian and Spaniards, but also included many British and Boers, fleeing from conflicts in their countries of origin. Actually the harsh, arid, windy Patagonian landscape by the south Atlantic, just six years later was to deliver what made Comodoro Rivadavia into a booming town, oil.The success of the centenary celebration of the city' foundation anticipates a similar, or even more outstanding festivity in 2007, when the oil and gas industry remembers the first well discovered in the area.

Recovering politics

Sponsored by the United Nations Development Agency political leaders from Latinamerican countries are meeting in Buenos Aires to discuss the recovery of electorates trust in political parties, democracy transparency and how to improve living conditions of the people. The ambitious forum will concentrate discussions beginning with ways to establish a tighter control over financial movements in the global world. "We want to create a world consensus on a very sensible issue, that politics must be above business interests, but politics must also be sufficiently tran