Stories for March 29th 2004
Mediterranean flies in Chilean fruit.
The Chilean Agriculture and Livestock (sanitary) Service confirmed the intensification of monitoring and controls following the discovery of several Mediterranean flies, (ceratitis capitata) in the urban area of Calle Larga in the country's Fifth region.
Credit assistance for Argentina.
Argentina will be signing in the coming months a five years 5 billion US dollars loan with the Interamerian Development Bank, IDB and is negotiating a similar credit with the World Bank, according to Argentine Economy Ministry sources in Peru.
Ms. Krueger and the Argentine collapse.
The Argentine meltdown is the most obvious and recent example of how economic policies failures can be catastrophic said International Monetary Fund's Acting Managing Director Anne Krueger, who estimated that the 2001 crisis could have been softened by bolder reforms in the nineties.
Deadly cyclone sweeps south of Brazil.
At least two people are reported dead, five disappeared and hundreds are homeless after a deadly cyclone with winds of up to 150 kilometres per hour swept the southern coast of Brazil just north of Uruguay mid night last Saturday.
Kirchner in collision course with ruling party.
Argentine president Nestor Kirchner ignored the new authorities of the powerful ruling Peronist Party elected over the week end and passed the word on to his faithful that he will only stand by a really “renovated” political organization.
Biggest Latinamerican air show opens in Santiago.
This Monday Chilean president Ricardo Lagos will be opening the XIII edition of the International Air and Space Fair, FIDAE, which has attracted over 100 aircrafts presented by 250 exhibitors from 30 different countries.
Formal protest made to Argentine Gov. over naval vessel's policing of Falkland's waters.
Written Statement to the House of Commons by Foreign Office Minister Bill Rammell.
