MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for March 2003
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Tuesday, March 25th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Fisheries News
Headlines: Quotas south of parallel 41º remain unchanged; Advisory committee for Uruguayan fisheries; Over 60% of ex-Morocco fleet will remain active; Target: 20,000 tons of salmon.
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Tuesday, March 25th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Breaking News.
Headlines: Chile:Prospects for fuel prices; Argentina's ex-pat remittances; UK budget in the red; Nottingham professor in Magallanes; Optimistic Chile;
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Monday, March 24th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
EU-Mercosur agree to keep talking
The European Union and Mercosur agreed last Friday in Brussels to continue advancing in negotiations to open markets improving product liberalization lists and the exchange of proposals in services and investments.
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Monday, March 24th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Kirchner and Menem top of the poll
The ruling Argentine coalition candidate Governor Néstor Kirchner and former president Carlos Menem lead vote intention for the presidential April 27 election, according to the latest polls published in the Argentine media. However none of them manage to cross the 20% threshold.
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Monday, March 24th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
A step further back
With the start of the Iraq war Latinamerica fell back another step in the priority list of the United States, a tendency that unexpectedly irrupted when the September 11 attacks in spite of the President George Bush administration promise that this would become the “century of the Americas”.
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Monday, March 24th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Breaking News from Pta. Arenas
Headlines: Insecurity; Redundancies in Punta Arenas port; Abattoir sale controversy.
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Monday, March 24th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Fisheries News
Headlines: Salmon industry designs new commercial strategy; Tory campaigns for “Save Britain's Fish”
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Saturday, March 22nd 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Bolivian gov't tries to placate military over port issue
Bolivian President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada has sent a letter to his military chiefs seeking to placate their reported unhappiness over the possibility that a Chilean port will be used to export the country's natural gas.
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Friday, March 21st 2003 - 21:00 UTC
IMF Completes First Review of Transitional Stand-By Arrangement with Argentina.
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today completed the first review of Argentina's performance under a seven-month Stand-By Credit Arrangement approved on January 24, 2003.
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Friday, March 21st 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Uruguay reaches agreement with IMF
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed this week the second review under the Stand-By Arrangement with Uruguay, approved a one-year extension through end-March 2005, and re-phased projected disbursements over the extension period. Upon completion of the review, a disbursement of SDR 218.5 million (about US$303 million) became immediately available.
