MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for 2003
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Wednesday, April 2nd 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Pte. Duahlde in “Malvinas” commemoration.
Argentina will remember today with several ceremonies the 21st Anniversary of the April 2 Falklands landing in 1982. Most commemorations have been organized by Malvinas veterans and caretaker president will be present in Puerto Madryn, Chubut province, where a Monument to the Malvinas Combatant will be unveiled together with two statues from a well known local sculptor.
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Wednesday, April 2nd 2003 - 21:00 UTC
U.S. expecting first shipment of Venezuelan gasoline
Venezuela is resuming shipments of unleaded gasoline from the Paraguana refinery complex, with a first U.S.-bound ship currently being loaded
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Wednesday, April 2nd 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Fisheries News
Headlines: Super squid surfaces in Antarctic; Common name; Spain reveals fleet renovation rules; Fisheries policy reform meeting held in Canary Islands; Russia plans return to Latin American waters; Squid fishers challenge government; Red tide levels drop in south Chile; Funds for fleet modernisation in Brazil; Trawler ban in the Mediterranean; Gibraltar's blackspot seabream gets quality label; E U approves changes to decommissioning funds...more.
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Tuesday, April 1st 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Chilean Central Bank president resigns
Carlos Massad, Chile's Central Bank president resigned this Monday following a string of financial scandals involving the stealing of privileged information from his office by unfaithful dependents.
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Tuesday, April 1st 2003 - 21:00 UTC
EU-Mercosur talks on track
European Union-Mercosur trade negotiations are on track according to the timetable agreed in Rio do Janeiro last August, and the recent Athens EU ministerial meeting ratified political support to the talks, said Pascal Lamy, EU Trade Commissioner currently visiting Mercosur member countries.
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Tuesday, April 1st 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Breaking News
Headlines: Argentina recovering beef markets; IMF cuts growth forecast; Bomb damages courthouse in southern Chile.
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Tuesday, April 1st 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Fisheries News.
Headlines: Galician in the forefront of joint ventures; Sea lion deaths halt squid fishing; Punta Arenas resumes sea urchin fishing; Success of the Irish seafood industry; Pay dispute over toothfish;
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Tuesday, April 1st 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Support grows for Falklands Memorial Chapel
Support for the Falkland Islands Memorial Chapel at Pangbourne College, Berkshire, has grown tremendously during the 20th anniversary year of the conflict.
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Monday, March 31st 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Simon Jenkins claims Falklands for Argentina
The Falklands should return to Argentina”. Under this title, and in coincidence with the 21st anniversary of the Argentine troops landing in the Falkland Islands, (April 2), the Sunday edition of La Nación from Buenos Aires published an extensive interview with Simon Jenkins, described as one of Britain's most respected and influential political analysts with a long career as journalist, columnist and editor in the Evening Standard, The Times and The Economist.
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Monday, March 31st 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Kirchner leads with 21,2%.
With just over three weeks for the coming Argentine presidential election next April 27, governor Néstor Kirchner leads in the polls with 21,2%, and for the first time since the campaign began a candidate managed to cross the psychological 20% threshold according to the latest Ipsos Mora y Araujo poll published last Sunday in La Nación.
