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Stories for 2005

• Friday, December 23rd 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  New lamb facilities in Patagonia Argentine Beef Packers expands further

  Argentine Beef Packers opened its first lamb export plant in 2002 in Esquel which was very successful, despite the long distance in bringing lambs up from Santa Fe.

• Friday, December 23rd 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  From Chubut to Europe Shrimp shipments now travel by air

  The first exports flight carrying 16 tons of shrimp processed in the Argentine Patagonian province of Chubut left the Comodoro Rivadavia airport en route to Europe.

• Friday, December 23rd 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  London bid victory linked to vote error

  London's winning bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics could have been helped by an International Olympic Committee member pressing the wrong button during the voting process, according to a BBC report.

• Thursday, December 22nd 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Peru: Shining Path Rebels 'Will Pay'

  Peru's president declared a state of emergency in six jungle provinces and promised to stamp out the nation's remaining Shining Path guerrillas after suspected rebels killed eight police officers in an ambush.

• Thursday, December 22nd 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Falkland Oil and Gas Ltd. Press Release

  FOGL, the oil and gas exploration company operating in the undrilled South and
  East Falkland Basins, announces its unaudited interim results for the 6 months
  ended 30 September 2005.

• Thursday, December 22nd 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Explorers recreate Scott mission

  Four British explorers are recreating Robert Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole using some replicas of equipment used in 1912. Simon Daglish, 40, Ed Farquhar, 39, James Daly, 41, and Roger Weatherby, 43, will pull a heavy wooden sledge across the original route.

• Wednesday, December 21st 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Guess which is the world's fourth largest economy?

  China which has the fastest growing among large economies reviewed the estimate of its GDP by 16.8%, overtaking Italy as the world's sixth economy. The review follows a national census and is measured in US dollars at market exchange rates.

• Wednesday, December 21st 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Mexican official calls US Migrant Bill “lame and stupid”

  Mexican Foreign Affairs minister Luiz Ernesto Derbez said that the Migrant Bill passed by the United States House of Representatives is “lame” since it ignores the contribution of millions of Mexicans, but also “stupid” for pretending that a wall will solve the migratory challenge.

• Wednesday, December 21st 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Shepherd, union leader, congressman, president

  Evo Morales, 46, who January 22 will become Bolivia's first-ever Indian president is a leftist leader of coca-leaf farmers and former llamas shepherd born to a highland couple who saw three of their six children die in infancy.

• Wednesday, December 21st 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Morales will have to prove his pragmatism

  In spite of what seems a landslide victory in last Sunday's presidential race (51% of the vote), Bolivian Indian leader Evo Morales won't have a majority in Congress and will need to build alliances both in the Lower House and the Senate.