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Stories for October 13th 2003

• Monday, October 13th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Social unrest in Bolivia extends.

  A new day of violence in the outskirts of the capital of La Paz, the capital of landlocked Bolivia, left a toll of five people killed and at least fifteen wounded, totalling fourteen deaths since the current unrest erupted a month ago.

• Monday, October 13th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazil's extreme inequalities.

  The results of the latest Brazilian Home Poll released this week indicate some spectacular advances in the greatest South American country and economy, but also persistent inequalities that undermine future prospects.

• Monday, October 13th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Good prospects for 2004.

  Latinamerica must insist with “more popular and less populist reforms” to fully recover economic expansion according to the International Monetary Fund, IMF.

• Monday, October 13th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay prepares to return to money market

  The Uruguayan government is optimistic about a first emission of bonds in international markets since the financial crisis of last year and the successful voluntary exchange of sovereign bonds last May.

• Monday, October 13th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  De-freezing of relations with Cuba.

  For the first time in fourteen years an Argentine Foreign Affairs minister visited Cuba for 48 hours to re-establish full diplomatic relations and as a clear sign of “political willingness from both governments to give a greater thrust to the bilateral relationship”.

• Monday, October 13th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Ditch Anglo-Spanish agreement, says Ancram.

  Britain's Conservative Party will not be bound by any constitutional agreement between the Government of Britain and Spain which does not have “the full democratic consent of the people of Gibraltar,” Shadow Foreign Secretary Michael Ancram told the Tory annual conference in Blackpool.

• Monday, October 13th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  UK prepared to back independence for Caribbean Territories.

  Britain reported last week to the UN Fourth Committee on Decolonisation that it would continue its policy of informal co-operation with the C24. The focus was on Caribbean territories and the UK delegate declared that independence would be encouraged if desired by territories “that have that option.”