Uruguayan and Mexican presidents Jorge Batlle and Vicente Fox signed this Saturday in Bolivia a free trade agreement, the first bilateral accord Mexico reaches with a Mercosur member country.
The XIII Ibero-american summit meeting in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia agreed the creation of a permanent Secretariat (with a nominated chairman) that will act as an executive branch and have its office in Spain.
Heads of state and government from nineteen Latinamerican countries plus Spain and Portugal will be meeting for two days beginning Friday in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, for the Thirteenth Ibero-american summit that on this occasion will concentrate on social issues.
Mercosur and the European Union agreed to set October 2004 as the deadline for the completion of a free trade accord, following the latest bilateral meeting held this week in Brussels.
The Argentine government said Thursday that on his many trips abroad when he was president from 1989 to 1999, Carlos Menem spent astronomical sums. ”On every trip he made, Menem would spend astronomical amounts.
Peru announced that next week formal talks for a bilateral free trade agreement will commence in Washington.
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Chilean peso eases appreciation; Lawsuit against Lan Chile.
Hungarian born tycoon George Soros and now United States resident made a donation of five million US dollars to a campaign to prevent the re-election of president George Bush in 2004, according to The Washington Post.
The Fret Moselle transporting nuclear residue from Australia to France will not be crossing Cape Horn in the extreme of South America as originally suspected, according to reports from Argentine and Chilean diplomatic sources.
The British government decided on Wednesday to turn down Argentina's request for the extradition of a former Iranian diplomat Buenos Aires wants in connection with the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center that left 85 dead and 200 wounded.