2024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012201120102009200820072006200520042003200220012000 All months123456789101112 All days12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031 All categoriesAgricultureEconomyEnergy & OilEnvironmentFisheriesHealth & ScienceInvestmentsPoliticsReal EstateTourismAntarcticaArgentinaBrazilChileFalkland IslandsInternationalLatin AmericaMercosurPacific AllianceParaguayUnited StatesUruguayVenezuelaVenezuelaUnasurEntertainment List Articles

Stories for 2002

• Thursday, April 11th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Disastrous squid season just gets worse.

• Wednesday, April 10th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  US-Uruguay kick-off

  Uruguayan and United States trade officials signed this week in Montevideo the starting agreement for trade and investment promotion that eventually could lead to a full free trade agreement between both countries.

• Wednesday, April 10th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  How Falkland Islanders went to war.

  How the Falkland Islanders went to war in 1982 to rid their country of the Argentine invaders with courage, ingenuity and vital practical help to the advancing British forces has been told for the first time.

• Tuesday, April 9th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  British Foreign Office Official call for “A cooperative spirit with Argentina”.

  Argentina has a part to play in the future development of the Falklands, according to British Foreign Office Deputy Under-Secretary Graham Fry.

• Tuesday, April 9th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  IMF and Argentina closer

  Argentina and the IMF delegation currently in Buenos Aires agreed to find a monitoring and control mechanism to ensure that the targets of the “federal fiscal” pact and honored and provincial deficits are effectively reduced.

• Tuesday, April 9th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Contingency loan for Brazil

  The International Monetary Fund approved a 15 billion US dollars additional contingency loan for Brazil, following the satisfactory perfomance of the Brazilian economy, according to a release from the multilateral organization.

• Monday, April 8th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Fishing-fuelled prosperity

  Several British press articles focus on the transformation of the Falklands economy since 1982, thanks to the new fishing industry.

• Monday, April 8th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  US-Chile trade talks

  United States and Chile held this week in Santiago the eleventh round of talks in the framework of a future free trade agreement between both countries.

• Sunday, April 7th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  2 April gets its own website.

  Tuesday 2 April marked not only the twentieth anniversary of the outbreak of the South Atlantic War, but the launch of a new website called www.2deabril.com which could well open a new stage in Internet based debating forums. This new site heads its homepage with the challenging slogan “twenty years on the time to debate has come”.

• Saturday, April 6th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  South Georgia scrap merchant seeks justice and compensation for his lost assets.

  Twenty years after being the main character in series of events which eventually escalated into the South Atlantic War, Constantino Davidoff, the man behind the landings by a group of Argentine scrap merchants on South Georgia continues to claim his innocence and says he still hopes to recover his assets lost on South Georgia as a result of the conflict in a British Court of Justice.