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Stories for October 2003

• Friday, October 17th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine-Brazilian delegation to Bolivia.

  Argentine and Brazilian presidents have sent two special envoys to Bolivia to help find a solution to the political and social crisis that has left a toll of dozens of protestors killed, virtually paralyzed all economic activity and has the country in the verge of an institutional meltdown.

• Friday, October 17th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Penguin News Update

  Headlines:
  Third by-election candidate; Overseas medical budget: pace of referrals reduced; Blake to conference; Bomb found at airport; Monsignor Agreiter dies; James Clark Ross arrival marks start of Antarctic season.

• Thursday, October 16th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Breaking News from Argentina.

  Headlines:
  Zaffaroni set for Supreme Court; Bussi Busted; US Ambassador meet President Kirchner; Japan wants in.

• Thursday, October 16th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Mind your own business, Bossano tells Spain.

  Leader of the Opposition Joe Bossano has noted that at the time of the Anglo-Spanish negotiations over Gibraltar, Madrid did not raise the question of visits by nuclear submarines other than suggesting their acquiescence “should have sovereignty concessions as a quid pro quo.”

• Thursday, October 16th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Ex-Argentine Officer Held in Disappearance

  A retired general considered one of the Argentine dictatorship's most hard-line military leaders was detained Wednesday in a lawmaker's disappearance in 1976.

• Wednesday, October 15th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Bush promises “strong dollar”; US to push for more markets in Pacific.

  United States president George Bush pledged full support for a “strong dollar” policy adding that “we expect the markets to reflect the true value of the currency” and “countries need to be mindful that we expect fair trade”.

• Wednesday, October 15th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  WTO addresses agriculture.

  Exactly one month after the failure of the World Trade Organization meeting in Cancun, Mexico, negotiations resumed in Geneva having agriculture as the leading issue.

• Wednesday, October 15th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  EU cautions about strong Euro

  Germany's Central Bank president Ernst Weltke cautioned this Tuesday in Frankfort about the negative consequences for European Union exports of a rapid appreciation of the Euro in money markets.

• Wednesday, October 15th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Cuba wants 75% debt relief from Argentina.

  Argentine Foreign Affairs Minister Rafael Bielsa admitted that Cuba requested a 75% write off from the 1,9 billion US dollars standing debt it has with Argentina. On his way back from the first official visit in 14 years of an Argentine Foreign Affairs Minister to the Fidel Castro regime, Mr. Bielsa said that when you break ground, “you must be prepared to accept similar rules”.

• Wednesday, October 15th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Demand your banks and advisors

  Nobel Prize winner economist Joseph Stiglitz said investors who purchased now defaulted Argentine sovereign bonds should demand their banks and financial advisors.