Mercosur

• Tuesday, March 6th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  October challenge

  Ricardo López Murphy, an orthodox and experienced economist who believes in balanced budgets is Argentina's new Economy Minister. The former Defence Secretary replaces José Machinea who was unable in his fifteen months tenure, to pull Argentina from a two and a half years recession in spite of a massive international 40 billion contingency assistance.

• Monday, March 5th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Preventive role for IMF

• Monday, March 5th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazil has its own tempo

• Monday, March 5th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Greenspan backs tax cut

• Friday, March 2nd 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay's target is FTAA

  Access to the United States market is vital for Uruguay's recovery, so this country will negotiate bilateral trade agreements with the US and Canada if the Free Trade Association of the Americas, FTAA, initiative does not move ahead.

• Wednesday, February 28th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Foot and mouth vaccination

  Beginning this week eleven million head of cattle will be vaccinated in Argentina against foot and mouth disease in an attempt to reinforce measures against any further outbreaks as happened last August.

• Monday, February 26th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Did you say Turkey?

  In an ever increasingly inter twined financial world, particularly concerning emerging markets, the impact of the Turkish crisis that was forced to float its currency and receive support assurances from United States, reached Latinamerican markets, mainly Argentina.

• Wednesday, February 21st 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Expanding regional trade

• Wednesday, February 14th 2001 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentina-Brazil joint position

  Argentina and Brazil coincided in the need to strengthen Mercosur's negotiation capacity and privilege the contents of the Americas Free Trade Association, AFTA, rather than the timetable for the ambitious United States initiative.

• Tuesday, February 13th 2001 - 20:00 UTC

  Anniversary with no celebration