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Stories for May 2002

• Thursday, May 23rd 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Spanish losses

  The Argentine crisis so far has cost the main Spanish companies with investments in the country an estimated 10,9 billion US dollars according to one of Madrid's main financial newspapers, Expansión.

• Thursday, May 23rd 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Cardoso warns about the “Argentina syndrome”

  “If the coming elected authorities of Brazil are incompetent, the country runs the risk of turning into a new Argentina”, warned Brazilian president Fernando Cardoso who has become directly involved in the campaign trail.

• Wednesday, May 22nd 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Conservative leader backs Falklands Urges armed forces be kept strong

  In his first major public pronouncement on the Falkland Islands, the Opposition Conservative Party Leader, Iain Duncan Smith, has described the 1982 liberation as “a noble objective” and has warned against any further cuts in Britain's military strength. He argues that the armed forces must be given the resources to mount such an operation again should it be necessary.

• Tuesday, May 21st 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Latinoamerican Hot News

  All eyes set on Colombia / Try again Jimmy / Argentine impact on Chilean economy / Elections now!! / Back to the TV studio / Exotic lamb / Controversy over the IMF / Too many immigrants / Chile after new trade links / “I feel am a gaucho” / Another trouble spot? / US spurs trade round with Chile / Extra digit in Chilean cellular

• Tuesday, May 21st 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  20th Anniversary of British landings at San Carlos

  ?So he passed over and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side'.
  These poignant words are written on the tombstone of Private F F Slough 2nd Battalion Parachute Regiment, whose body lies in the cemetery at San Carlos, East Falklands.

• Tuesday, May 21st 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Breaking News

  Too many immigrants / Chile after new trade links / “I feel am a gaucho” / Another trouble spot? / US spurs trade round with Chile / Extra digit in Chilean cellular

• 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.