Stories for March 8th 2006
Rockhopper completes seismic and mapping surveys
Rockhopper Exploration which holds hydrocarbons exploration and production licences offshore the Falkland Islands completed in mid February seismic and electro magnetic imaging surveys over their acreage.
HMS Endurance to Argentina for urgent repairs
“There are no political overtones in this at all, it's just a necessary repair job that has to be done as quickly as possible, which means going to the nearest available dry dock of a size to take Endurance. She's a big ship and there aren't that many big dry docks around the South Atlantic.”
Brazil President Lula da Silva welcomed by Queen Elizabeth II.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva received a lavish welcome from Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday, but he has more than pomp and ceremony planned for his three-day state visit to Britain.
“Strategic alliance” with Argentina, Chile's top priority
Consolidating relations with Latinamerica and “most particularly” with Argentina, plus Peru and Bolivia are foreign relations “top priorities” of the incoming administration of elected Chilean president Michelle Bachelet.
Malvinas veterans suicide rate “14 times higher”
The suicide rate among Falklands/Malvinas war veterans is fourteen times the Argentine population average claim veterans' associations. At least 350 and possibly 454, veterans have committed suicide since the end of the war in June 1982, a figure higher than the number actually killed in combat or sunk with the cruiser “General Belgrano”.
Uruguay's wool and skin sales top 93 million US dollars
Uruguayan wool, sheep skin and live sheep exports from the current 05/06 clip totalled 93 million US dollars by the end of February, reported the Uruguayan Wool Secretariat.
“Mad cow”: 10 years after EU lifts ban on British beef
A worldwide ban on British beef exports has been lifted by the European Union, ten years after it was introduced to prevent the spread of mad cow disease, or Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis, BSE.
India/Chile sign preferential trade agreement
India and Chile on Wednesday signed in New Delhi a Preferential Trade Agreement as part of initiatives to increase trade and investment between the two countries.
Brazil clamps on “wild west” border town
Businessmen, taxi and truck drivers in Ciudad del Este blocked this week the Friendship Bridge that links the Paraguayan city with Brazil's Foz de Iguazu in protest over strict customs controls on the Brazilian side.
