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Stories for October 2003

• Monday, October 6th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Public Utility rates increases “not imminent”.

  Argentina's Congress has handed the government sweeping powers to increase privatised utility companies rates and thereby meeting a central demand of the International Monetary Fund.

• Monday, October 6th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  UNCTAD criticizes free trade policies

  Latin American governments should restructure debt burdens and play a more active role in economic development, the UN Conference on Trade and Development has urged. In its latest annual trade and development report, Unctad sharply criticised the market-friendly and trade-oriented policies adopted during the 1990s and said they had contributed to a “premature de-industrialisation” in the region.

• Sunday, October 5th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Mercosur extraordinary meeting in Montevideo

  Mercosur full member countries Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Economy will be meeting as of this Monday in Montevideo, Uruguay to consider free trade market negotiations with the Community of Andean Nations, CAN.

• Sunday, October 5th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  “Encouraging” news for Falklands oil prospects

  THE state of the oil industry is picking up, and that's good news for the Falkland Islands. That's the message Director of Mineral Resources Phyl Rendell brought back to Stanley from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, AAPG conference in Barcelona, Spain that extended from September 21 to 24.

• Sunday, October 5th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands in travel brochures of world's main tourist operators

  At least twenty one tourism buyer companies from Europe, America and Oceania present at the latest convention of Travel Mart Latin America held in Ecuador, have listed the Falkland Islands in their operating profiles.

• Sunday, October 5th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay's toothfish quota at risk

  Although all eyes will be set in the trial and “exemplary measures” Australia has promised for the Uruguayan flagged longliner and alleged poacher of Patagonian toothfish, “Viarsa 1”, actually the future of Uruguay's toothfish industry will be decided in mid month in Tasmania.

• Sunday, October 5th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Clash with the Bush administration.
  Chilean inflation in nine months

  Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs Celso Amorim accused United States of “threats” and insisting with a “very destructive” pressure to push forward negotiations for a Free Trade Association of the Americas.

• Saturday, October 4th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Chileans Mark End of Pinochet Rule

  Chileans are celebrating the referendum that marked the beginning of the end of the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet 15 years ago.

• Friday, October 3rd 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguayan ship accused of poaching brought back to Australia.

  The Uruguayan boat captured for alleged poaching after a marathon 21-day ocean chase was brought into a west Australian port Friday (3 October) with its crew of 39 and an illegal catch of endangered Patagonian toothfish.

• Thursday, October 2nd 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  More British Airways flights to Argentina.

  British Airways beginning next January 2004 will increase the number of weekly Buenos Aires-London flights from three to four.