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Stories for June 2006

  • Thursday, June 8th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

    Bachelet denies any pressure from President Bush

    Chilean president Michelle Bachelet following a meeting Thursday with President George Bush in the White House categorically denied any US pressure to vote against Venezuela becoming a non permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.

  • Wednesday, June 7th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

    Humala block could split and join with Garcia

    The founder and chairman of the party that lent its banner to nationalist Ollanta Humala for his failed presidential bid said Tuesday that the unsuccessful hopeful no longer leads the Union for Peru, or UPPO.

  • Wednesday, June 7th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

    Former Paraguayan president sentenced to six years in jail

    Paraguay's former president Luis Gonzalez Macchi was convicted to six years in prison on for embezzling 16 million U.S. dollars from two collapsed banks, according to reports from Paraguay's capital Asuncion.

  • Wednesday, June 7th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

    US knew Eichmann's whereabouts since early fifties

    Since the early fifties United States was aware on the whereabouts of Adolf Eichmann, one of the architects of the Nazi Holocaust, but chose to keep the matter secret, fearing that the arrest of the Nazi fugitive might lead to embarrassing revelations about links between senior West German officials and other Nazis.

  • Wednesday, June 7th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

    “The party is over”, lean growth years ahead

    After three years of sustained growth the economies of Latinamerica (including Argentina and Venezuela) will be expanding at a more moderate rate according to estimates from the World Bank and Wall Street analysts.

  • Wednesday, June 7th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

    Massive crater found in Antarctica dates back 250 million years

    United States scientists discovered in Antarctica a massive crater which could have wiped out more than 90 % of the species on Earth 250 million years ago, an American geologist said Wednesday.

  • Wednesday, June 7th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

    Two candidates dominate Mexico' presidential contest

    The contest for Mexico's presidency next July 2 has become a two horse race between populist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Conservative Felipe Calderon, who according to public opinion polls seems to have won the campaign's second and last televised debate Tuesday evening.

  • Wednesday, June 7th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

    UK reiterates Falklands right to self determination

    The Organization of American States meeting in Santo Domingo for its annual assembly called Tuesday on Argentina and the United Kingdom to resume Malvinas/Falkland Islands sovereignty negotiations, but the British Embassy in Buenos Aires said the decision belongs to the Islanders.

  • Tuesday, June 6th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

    Chile students and Police clash during National strike

    High school students were arrested and journalists injured in central Santiago during Monday's national strike.

  • Tuesday, June 6th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

    Argentina: “We need to expunge infectious cells” said Defence Minister

    Defence Minister Nilda Garré yesterday warned that to “heal the wounds” left by the 1976-1983 dictatorship the government must “expunge infectious cells” created by a bunch of officers, whom President Néstor Kirchner accused of vindicating state terrorism. She denied any unease among the armed forces.