Stories for December 2nd 2004
US concerned with Venezuela's MiGs purchase.
A senior US President Bush administration official was critical of Venezuela's plans to acquire Russian-made MiG-29 fighter jets, adding that the United States “shoots down” this type of warplane.
Killer of Chilean Senator arrested in Argentina
A Chilean judge on Wednesday indicted for murder and kidnapping a left-wing extremist arrested this week in Argentina
Navy and Carabineros accept “individual excesses”
Carabineros, Chile's militarized police acknowledged that its members carried out human rights violations during the 1973-1990 dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet and condemned the repressive acts.
Mercury contamination in Amazon basin.
Amazon basin representatives began discussing in Rio do Janeiro combating the potentially disastrous effects of tons of highly toxic mercury that illegal low-tech gold miners dump every year into the streams and rivers that make up the planet's biggest reserve of fresh water
Live fire accident in Brazilian-Argentine naval exercise.
An Argentine warship inadvertently fired on a Brazilian frigate during joint naval exercises in the Atlantic Ocean injuring five people, none of them seriously.
Fisheries News.
Headlines:
Patagonian toothfish migration under scientific scrutiny; Argentine fisheries exports: 676 million US dollars; Laboratory-bred hake spawn for the first time; Chile will reduce common hake quota; Claims of deliberate squid by catching in Argentina; Chile and Argentina resume “prelisting” certification.
New bad news for Menem.
A judge yesterday threw out two prison exemption requests filed by followers of former Peronist president Carlos Menem, who lives in Chile and is on the run from Argentine courts.
