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Ample trade surplus in Chile; Lamb, beef and pork for China; Massive blackout in Chile.
Argentina is confident that the first review of the recent financial assistance agreement reached with the International Monetary Fund, IMF, will be approved.
The Spanish-Argentine oil company Repsol-YPF profits in the first nine months of 2003 dropped 8% reaching 1,6 billion Euros.
Brazil announced it will seek a new agreement with the IMF to replace the current one that expires in December, and revealed that First Managing Director Anne Krueger will be arriving this Wednesday to begin negotiations.
United States is speeding the pace of the Free Trade Association of the Americas, FTAA and anticipated that the mini-summit of this coming weekend in Washington will help define the final accord, expected to become effective January 2005. Just in case it promised bilateral trade agreements to all those countries of the region who contribute to liberalize trade.
Argentine police were holding Tuesday night at least seven suspects they captured in a raid after 22-year-old kidnap victim Pablo Belluscio was returned to his family.
Argentina will pressure Mercosur partner Uruguay to drop its intransigent opposition to the idea of offering Cuba membership in the regional trade block, according to Argentine ambassador in Havana Raul Taleb.
The international industry group representing the world's legal toothfish operators COLTO has written to the Director of Uruguayan Fisheries ( DINARA) to raise its concern about statements he has been reported making about COLTO to a parliamentary inquiry investigating the Viarsa 1 incident.
Crew facing illegal fishing charges after being taken into custody when their boat was apprehended in the Southern Ocean, have been refused an application to return to their country.
The governor of Argentina's largest province on Monday ordered 3,300 more police officers into the streets to stem crime sweeping the suburbs of Buenos Aires.