MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for October 2003
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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.
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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.
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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”.
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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.
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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.”
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Sunday, October 12th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
“Fluctuating G” and Buenos Aires Consensus.
Thirteen countries of the original group of 20 (21 or 22) that was formed in the recent failed World Trade Organization meeting in Cancun, Mexico to fight agriculture protectionism in developed countries, confirmed last Friday in Buenos Aires “the importance of the full standing of the multilateral trade system and the WTO”.
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Sunday, October 12th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
UNITAS naval exercise in South Atlantic.
Beginning this week navies from several South American countries, Spain and United States will be participating in the annual Unitas exercise that deploys surface vessels, submarines and air support in the South Atlantic.
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Sunday, October 12th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Child prostitution scandal in Santiago.
A Chilean politician who accused three fellow members of Congress of alleged links with a child prostitution ring currently under investigation, resigned from her party.
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Sunday, October 12th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Breaking News from Pta. Arenas.
Headlines: Chile moves into summer time; UK Ambassador to visit Punta Arenas; DAP incorporates Dash 7; ENAP denies existence of oil in Beagle Channel; Overseas bargains for strong peso.
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Friday, October 10th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Brazil: Oil new project in the Amazon jungle.
Brazil's state oil industry is extracting more natural gas and crude in the country's jungled north as part of a development program that is bringing investment and jobs on pipelines and at refineries, in the remote and left-behind region.
