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Stories for March 2004

  • Monday, March 29th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

    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.

  • Monday, March 29th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

    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.

  • Monday, March 29th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

    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.

  • Monday, March 29th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

    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.

  • Monday, March 29th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

    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.

  • Monday, March 29th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

    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.

  • Sunday, March 28th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

    Concern with political consequences of energy crisis.

    Argentine diplomacy is concerned with the political consequences of the current energy crisis for regional integration and ideological identification.

  • Sunday, March 28th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

    Kirchner man chairs Peronist Party.

    Argentine president Nestor Kirchner managed to impose his man as the ruling Peronist Party secretary general in spite of an internal crisis following a confrontation with some of the most powerful Peronist governors of the country.

  • Sunday, March 28th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

    Dollar recovers against the Euro.

    The US dollar advanced last week against the Euro following growing expectations that the European Central Bank might cut interest rates, but dropped against the yen given the good news about the Japanese economy.

  • Sunday, March 28th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

    More IMF praise for Brazil's solid fiscal policies.

    The Brazilian economy is poised for a robust economic growth in 2004 and much is owed to the sound economic policies of last year, particularly the solid fiscal outturn and the government's commitment to a similar fiscal stance this year, according to the International Monetary Fund's Acting Managing Director Anne Krueger.