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Stories for October 2002

• Wednesday, October 2nd 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  MP who aborted Argentine invasion visit

  A former Member of Parliament, Sir Frederic Bennett, who criticised what he regarded as the complacency of the British Embassy in Buenos Aires on the eve of the Argentina's invasion of the Falkland Islands, has died aged 83.

• Tuesday, October 1st 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Chile in Security Council

  Chile was chosen last week to the United Nations Security Council as non permanent member and will take over from Colombia next January. Chile will hold the post for two years.

• Tuesday, October 1st 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Chilean unemployment almost unchanged

  Unemployment in Chile during the June-August quarter dropped slightly (0,1%) to 9,6% compared to a year ago, but actually increased 0,2% over the previous quarter.

• Tuesday, October 1st 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Most expensive country of the region

  Following currency devaluations and recession in Mercosur member countries, Chile has become the most expensive country in US dollars of the region. This means that countries once considered expensive have now become a “bargain”.

• Tuesday, October 1st 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Military crisis brewing

  Chilean president Ricardo Lagos is in an uncomfortable situation following the disclosure that the Air Force Commander, General Patricio Ríos, allegedly had knowledge of the resurgence of a “Joint Command” extremist group, closely linked to the force and involving the wife of another Air Force general, but did not report it.

• Tuesday, October 1st 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Bingham blasts Falkland's fishery policy

  Marine biologist Mike Bingham claims that in 1982 the Penguin population in the Falkland Islands was six million, however twenty years later and as a direct consequence of the indiscriminate fisheries policy of the Islands government, only 600,000 are left.