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Stories for May 20th 2002

• Monday, May 20th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  All eyes set on Colombia

  With less than a week before next Sunday's Colombian presidential election the candidate that has promised an iron fist fight against the guerrilla movement, Alvaro Uribe, leads comfortably with 49,3% of vote intention, more than doubling his runner up, Mr. Horacio Serpa with 23%, according to a poll published in Bogotá's main daily newspaper, El Tiempo.

• Monday, May 20th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Controversy over the IMF

  Argentine public opinion is split down quiet evenly regarding the convenience or not of reaching an agreement with the International Monetary Fund to obtain much needed financial assistance to overcome the current crisis.

• Monday, May 20th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Try again Jimmy

  US President George Bush is expected this week to adopt a harder line towards Cuba leaving no doubts as to where his administration stands following the bridge-building historic visit of former president Jimmy Carter, who during a speech in Havana, called for more civil liberties in the island but also the lifting of the forty years US trade and communications embargo.

• Monday, May 20th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Joint Argentine-British exercises

  Britain and Argentine are to resume next year joint search and rescue exercises in the South Atlantic, following the fifth Round of Defense Cooperation Contacts and eleventh Military Contacts Meeting held in London two weeks ago.