MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for July 2004
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Tuesday, July 27th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Strong 2004/05 recovery in Latinamerica.
Latinamerica and the Caribbean strong economic recovery will continue rolling for the rest of the year with the region's GDP expanding 4%, well above the 1,5% of last year, according to a report from the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, UNECE.
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Tuesday, July 27th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Australia, France to jointly police territorial seas.
France and Australia plan to introduce joint policing of their waters in the Southern Ocean.
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Monday, July 26th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Chilean company demands Argentine gas suppliers.
A Chilean private utility company and its electricity generating facility in Santiago confirmed this Sunday they have presented a demand in an international tribunal against Argentine private natural gas suppliers.
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Monday, July 26th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Chavez prefers Mercosur to Andean integration.
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez admitted he prefers Venezuela's integration to Mercosur over the Andean Community of Nations, CAN, which he described as an agreement of “elites”.
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Monday, July 26th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Kirchner contains political crisis.
Argentine president Nestor Kirchner contained this weekend a political storm by dismissing Justice and Security Minister Gusatavo Beliz and appointing Treasury Prosecutor General Horacio Rosatti to replace him following a growing controversy over law enforcement which became most evident July 16 when the police stood passively for hours while demonstrators attempted to storm the Buenos Aires Legislature.
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Monday, July 26th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
“There's no way a General can accumulate that money”
The current investigation into former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet bank accounts is directed preliminarily to discover infringements of tax legislation since the funds deposited in the Riggs Bank of Washington DC were never included in the General's 1994/98 tax statements, according to Santiago press reports.
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Monday, July 26th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Falklands' visitors must have medical insurance.
The Falklands Immigration Department has reminded visitors to the Islands to take out adequate medical insurance.
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Sunday, July 25th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Popular Falklands at Royal Show.
The Falkland Islands have once again proven a popular attraction at the Royal Show, the United Kingdom's ultimate country lifestyle and agri-business exhibition.
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Sunday, July 25th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Stanley Book-signing Shows Support for Falklands Author.
One of the more unusual events this week in Stanley was a book signing on Friday at the Falkland Island Company's Capstan Gift Shop. For two hours from three o'clock, a steady stream of local people queued up to have a copy of Terry Betts autobiography, A Falkland Islander Till I Die signed by the author.
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Sunday, July 25th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
US Productivity faster than job creation.
United States Chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan said that the growing productivity in the US economy and the rather shallow recession of 2001 are the main reasons for the weak job creation response of the latest recovery.
