Stories for September 24th 2002

Tuesday, September 24th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

Sheep are coming back in Patagonia

Following the devaluation of the Argentine currency and the strong world market for wool and lamb, Patagonia sheep farmers are again enthusiastic and timidly beginning to invest.

Tuesday, September 24th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

Claims of hake licensing “irregularities” in Argentina

A report from the University of Buenos Aires, UBA, on 25 years of fisheries licensing with the identification of serious “irregularities”, and which apparently has disappeared, has been requested by a Justicialista Senator from the province of Chubut.

Tuesday, September 24th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

Duhalde rejects advancing election

President Eduardo Duhalde administration rejected once again demands to advance the Argentine general election for next December, instead of March 2003 as scheduled in the official electoral calendar.