MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for October 2003
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Thursday, October 30th 2003 - 20:00 UTC
Colto's Rogue Gallery.
The new face of IUU fishing for toothfish.
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Thursday, October 30th 2003 - 20:00 UTC
Argentine gov't pledges to halt wave of abductions.
The Argentine government vowed Wednesday to battle kidnappings by criminals like the ones who horrified a Buenos Aires family and much of the nation by sending the finger of a victim and “indescribable and explicit” videotapes to press their demand for ransom.
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Thursday, October 30th 2003 - 20:00 UTC
Aznar throws Spain's support behind Lula.
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar on Wednesday expressed support for the economic reforms sought by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and also voiced sympathy for Brazil's aspirations to gain a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council.
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Wednesday, October 29th 2003 - 20:00 UTC
Fisheries News.
Headlines:
Toothfish poaching top of CCAMLR meeting agenda; Spain remains in first position as Argentine fish buyer; Fisheries protocol with Cape Verde extended; Korean businessmen express their interest in Vigo; 'World Pelagics' conference launches 'Fish Africa 2003'; Farmed salmon escape causes chaos in the X Region; EU overexploits African waters, says WWF;ICES hake ban could moor Galician thirty vessels; -
Wednesday, October 29th 2003 - 20:00 UTC
DAP presents Havilland Dash-7
Punta Arenas based DAP airlines officially presented this Monday its latest acquisition, the 50 seats Havilland Dash-7 that will be combining air and sea cruises to Antarctica.
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Wednesday, October 29th 2003 - 20:00 UTC
Vessel with nuclear waste en route to Cape Horn?
A vessel loaded with radioactive residual materials left this Monday from Australia en route to France and one of the optional routes is Cape Horn, claim Greenpeace activists in Sydney and Argentina. The other is Cape of Good Hope.
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Wednesday, October 29th 2003 - 20:00 UTC
Lula, Kirchner and Lagos, the most respected.
The presidents from Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Argentina, Nestor Kirchner and Chile, Ricardo Lagos are the most respected Latinamerican leaders following an opinion poll among the establishment of six countries of the region.
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Wednesday, October 29th 2003 - 20:00 UTC
US federal funds rate remain unchanged at 1%.
The United States Federal Reserve Open Market Committee decided this Tuesday to keep its target for the federal funds rate at 1% and anticipated that “policy accommodation can be maintained for a considerable period”.
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Wednesday, October 29th 2003 - 20:00 UTC
Brazil proposes a “light” FTAA.
Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's main foreign policy advisor Marco Aurelio García forecasted that the United States sponsored Free Trade Association of the Americas, FTAA, could become effective according to the tentative timetable but “in a far less embracing way than Washington pretends”.
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Wednesday, October 29th 2003 - 20:00 UTC
Chile fully supports FTAA timetable.
Chilean Foreign Affairs Minister Soledad Alvear said Chile will fully support all efforts to make the Free Trade Association of the Americas “a reality in 2005”.
