MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for July 2006
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Tuesday, July 25th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Falklands-UK air bridge talks give some hope for tourism expansion
Some hope for the future expansion of land-based tourism in the Falkland Islands is offered by high-level meetings, which are shortly to take place involving the British Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence.
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Tuesday, July 25th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Latinamerica forecasted to expand 5% this year
Latinamerica and the Caribbean region economies are forecasted to expand 5% in 2006, up from the original 4.6%, supported on a better than expected performance from Brazil and Mexico.
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Tuesday, July 25th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
UK/Argentina “positive” meeting on Falklands' de-mining
Argentina and Britain held another round of talks last week in London for the clearance of land mines in the Falkland Islands and announced a next meeting in September in Buenos Aires.
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Monday, July 24th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Argentine farmers on strike promise further actions
An organization representing 100.000 Argentine farmers is on strike until next Tuesday when “if conditions persist”, the industrial action could be extended warned on Sunday leaders of protest rallies in several cattle and cereal belts towns.
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Monday, July 24th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Chile and Asian contacts, priority for Peruvian foreign policy
Peru's future Foreign Affairs minister Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde accused the current Peruvian administration of “unnecessarily ill-treating” relations with Chile, which he identified as one of the incoming government's top foreign policy priorities.
Next July 28, elected president Alan García will be taking office in Peru. -
Monday, July 24th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Bachelet under flak at home because of Mercosur summit
Chile's Executive branch spokesperson highlighted President Michelle Bachelet's role in the recent Mercosur Cordoba summit and the meetings held with her counterparts from Argentina and Bolivia, countries with which Chile has pending discrepancies.
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Monday, July 24th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Chile, Brazil, Uruguay, region's highest cost of living
Chile, Brazil and Uruguay have the highest cost of living in Latinamerica according to a report from the Chilean Statistics Institute (INE) released in Santiago.
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Monday, July 24th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Commissioner Pearce reviews S. Georgia Government activity
Once a dependency of the Falkland Islands Government, the South Atlantic island of South Georgia, over which the Argentine Government also claims sovereignty, is now governed directly by a British Foreign and Commonwealth Office commissioner.
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Sunday, July 23rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Castro, Chavez visit “Che's” home
Seemingly unconcerned about an Argentine request to allow a Cuban doctor out of the island to visit her children in Argentina, Cuban leader Fidel Castro yesterday spent his third day in Cordoba province by taking Venezuelan ally Hugo Chavez on an emotional pilgrimage to the boyhood home of Ernesto “Che” Guevara.
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Sunday, July 23rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Sexy Santiago: “Coffee with legs”
North Americans take their coffee with milk or sugar. Europeans sometimes add chocolate, and the Irish have been known to add a healthy dose of whiskey to their morning or evening beverage. In Chile, however, coffee often comes with legs (café con piernas).
