MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for 2003
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Wednesday, August 6th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Free of Maedi Visna, soon?
The Chilean Agriculture and Livestock Service, SAG, is confident that in a near future the province of Ultima Esperanza in the extreme south of Chile (Tierra del Fuego and Magallanes) will be declared free of Maedi visna, a disease that affects sheep reproduction and which frustrated several ovine development projects in the area.
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Wednesday, August 6th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Lavagna to meet Snow.
Argentine Economy Minister Roberto Lavagna will be meeting this week with United States Secretary of the Treasury John Snow in Washington to “assess financial relations between both countries”.
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Wednesday, August 6th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Strong seism in Argentine Antarctic base.
A “tsunami” or seismic wave caused by a 7,3 points Richter scale seism hit this week the Argentine Antarctic base of Orcadas (Orkneys) leaving broken window glass, fallen objects but fortunately no wounded or structural damages to the compound.
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Wednesday, August 6th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Record winter tourist season in Argentina
The Argentine Tourism Office reports an excellent winter season with record numbers compared to a year ago. With 7,350,000 tourists, a 15% increase over the 6,400,000 in 2002, “the season exceeded our most optimistic expectations”, reads an official report indicating that the South, followed by the Northern provinces proved the main attractions.
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Wednesday, August 6th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Brazil's pensions reform past the first hurdle
A massive protest was the first popular reaction to the approval by the Brazilian Lower House of the controversial public pensions' system reforms. An estimated 35,000 protesters marched along Brasilia's streets destroying public property and finally tried to break into Congress where riot police pushed them back.
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Tuesday, August 5th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
“Let's look after the oil” in Falklands
The hypotheses of a promising oil future for the Falklands has to be approached as “likely” and therefore must necessarily be included in “the permanent and priority agenda of our sovereignty rights over the Islands” writes Jorge Lapeña, a former Energy Secretary in this Monday's “Clarín” edition.
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Tuesday, August 5th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Regional News.
Headlines:
New airstrip in Santiago; Abattoir tender goes ahead; Unique air/sea Antarctic cruise; Chile targets dairy export market. -
Tuesday, August 5th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
A testing week for Mr. Lula da Silva
A testing week full of tension, uncertainty and turbulence has begun for President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his seven months administration that took office full of optimism and hope for millions of Brazilians who granted his a landslide victory.
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Tuesday, August 5th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Aerolíneas Argentinas makes a profit.
Spanish owned Aerolíneas Argentinas expects to end 2003 with a considerable profit, “quiet an event”, according to Mr. Antonio Mata, president of the company's Executive Committee.
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Tuesday, August 5th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Perú. Mercosur's next member.
Peru expects to join Mercosur this month in similar conditions as Chile and Bolivia that are associate members of the regional block. The announcement was made following the Mercosur and Andean Community, CAN, Foreign Secretaries summit held in Montevideo to speed the South American integration timetable.
