Stories for September 27th 2005
Death of a renowned Nazi hunter
The death of the feared Nazi-hunter Simon Weisenthal does not mean that the ageing Nazi criminals who have enjoyed safe refuge in Latin America for more than 50 years can now be certain of escaping detection and justice.
Mercosur becoming a world leading cellulose producer
Mercosur is forecasted to become a world cellulose production pole with investments in three plants and forests, from one company only equivalent to 3,75 billion US dollars.
Chavez moves ahead with his “agrarian reform”
The Venezuelan government expropriated this week a corn silos plant belonging to the country's main agro-business corporation as part of its campaign to take over “idle” companies and farmland and hand them to workers and peasants.
Brazilian Workers Party support rapidly eroding
The extent of the disillusion with the corruption scandal involving the Brazilian administration of President Lula da Silva is taking its toll in the ruling Workers Party, four Deputies resigned and 400 grass root leaders have left.
Latinamerica faces 14 elections in next 18 months
Risk assessment agencies anticipate that political rattling in the coming eighteen months when elections will be held in fourteen Latinamerican countries could delay the implementation of structural reforms in some of them.
UN health agency warns of brewing flu pandemic
There will be another influenza pandemic and failure to prepare for it appropriately will have “catastrophic consequences,” the head of the United Nations health agency warned Tuesday, calling for national control plans worldwide and massive international collaboration to prevent the potential deaths of millions of people.
