Stories for March 17th 2003
Breaking News
Headlines: Mercosur rice farmers demand fair markets; World's leading soybean producer; Nuclear surveillance station in Punta Arenas; Lan Chile hikes air fares; Chilean depositors nervous; Inflation drops in Brazil; Lula tightens control on his party; The elusive ”Kraken project;
Encouraging prospects in Argentina
Atomization and an end to bipartisanism?
Sinking of Belgrano remains controversial 21 years on
Twenty one years after two torpedoes fired by a British submarine sunk the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano the matter appears to be as polemical now as it was at the time, that is, judging by the different arguments put forward at a press conference held to wrap up a National Geographic Channel expedition to locate the site of the sunken warship.
Our Iraq position won't bring reprisals from U.S.
Responding to the fears of some here that Washington will retaliate against Chile for its anti-war stance on Iraq, the foreign minister on Monday expressed her view that a free-trade pact between the two countries is “completely independent” of geopolitical tit-for-tat.
