MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for 2002
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Thursday, July 4th 2002 - 21:00 UTC
News from Punta Arenas
Headlines:
DAP Manager blasts Lan Chile; Rural tourism; Longing for the “Argentines”; New ferry;Negative inflation -
Thursday, July 4th 2002 - 21:00 UTC
Regional turbulence hits Chile
Chile's Finance Minister Nicolás Eyzaguirre lowered the country's annual estimated growth from 3,5 to 3,2% as direct consequence of international factors, particularly the Argentine and Brazilian situation.
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Thursday, July 4th 2002 - 21:00 UTC
New Deep Water Port - more work to be commissioned
Falkland Islands Government is to undertake more detailed studies of two linked sites for its proposed deep water port, at Port William Navy Point, and the Camber.
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Thursday, July 4th 2002 - 21:00 UTC
Falklands in the spotlight at FCO Open Day
Some 2,500 people took up the opportunity to find out more about Britain's fourteen Overseas Territories on Tuesday, July 2, 2002, and to see the magnificent rooms at the Grade I listed Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) building.
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Wednesday, July 3rd 2002 - 21:00 UTC
Bolivia: And now what?
Although the final results will not be forthcoming for several weeks, poll estimates indicate former president Gonzalo de Sánchez Lozada won the first round of Bolivia's election with Manuel Reyes Villa trailing closely behind with less than a point difference, ( 21% and 20%), but both distant from the 50% plus one needed to take office next August 6th.
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Wednesday, July 3rd 2002 - 21:00 UTC
Duhalde calls early election
In a short address to the country Argentine president Eduardo Duhalde announced national elections will be advanced from September 2003 to March 2003, with compulsory, simultaneous and open primaries for all parties to nominate candidates next November.
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Tuesday, July 2nd 2002 - 21:00 UTC
South America News
Headlines:
Green light from the US Treasury; A more sober Argentina; Foreign investment in Chile collapses; Warning from “The New York Times” -
Tuesday, July 2nd 2002 - 21:00 UTC
Ascension Island campaign for democracy. Angry petition to UK Foreign Office
Ascension Island, the mid-Atlantic staging post for UK-Falkland Islands air services, is the focus of an increasingly bitter constitutional dispute between the Foreign Office in London and the island's 850 inhabitants.
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Tuesday, July 2nd 2002 - 21:00 UTC
IMF admits financial “nervousness”
The International Monetary Fund, IMF, said today that negotiations with Argentina regarding credit assistance have received a renewed thrust and anticipated several missions will be travelling to Buenos Aires to support the new situation.
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Monday, July 1st 2002 - 21:00 UTC
Breaking News
Headlines:
Denmark presides over Europe;
Three strategic points; Chile in the Security Council; “Freeze Mercosur”; President Fox in regional summit
