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Stories for January 2004

• Friday, January 16th 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Meeting of Rive Plate battle veterans.

  A former Royal Navy Lieutenant and a former Von Graff Spee German petty officer paid tribute in a simple but moving ceremony in Montevideo to comrades killed in the River Plate sixty one years ago, during the first major naval battle at the beginning of the Second World War.

• Thursday, January 15th 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Mad cow ravages US beef exports.

  Almost 37,000 tons of frozen beef are loaded in trucks or stored in port terminals ready to be shipped to countries that have banned meat imports following the report last month of the first case of “mad cow” (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) in the United States.

• Thursday, January 15th 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Radioactive cargo scheduled to cross Cape Horn.

  A Chilean Congressman following on reports from Greenpeace warned this week about the transportation of radioactive materials belonging to a dismantled California nuclear reactor, along the Chilean and Argentine coasts.

• Thursday, January 15th 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Good summer season in Bariloche

  Visitors to Bariloche and the surrounding lake area in Argentine Patagonia have almost doubled compared to last season and the occupancy rate has expanded 20% during the first fifteen days of 2004, according to the local Tourist Office.

• Thursday, January 15th 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  High seas December squid fishing, a “fiasco”

  The high seas (plus 200 miles) squid catching “crusade” before the official season begins, has proved to be an Argentine government “media show” and a “fiasco”, according to CeDePesca, an Argentine organization for the Defence of Fisheries with offices in Mar del Plata.

• Thursday, January 15th 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  The Argentine yacht 'Mistico' left the Falklands in her last leg to Bs. Aires.

  Intrepid Argentine yachtsmen, Jorge Bertolino and Marcelo Gonzalez have left the Falkland Islands, in the yacht 'Mistico' and should reach Buenos Aires in 8 - 9 days time, weather permitting.

• Wednesday, January 14th 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  A positive summit for President Bush

  A watered down Nuevo Leon Declaration concluded the two days Americas summit held in Mexico with the participation of the leaders of the entire continent, (minus Cuba), and particularly the presence of US president George Bush in the campaign trail of a re-election year.

• Wednesday, January 14th 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Decision to discontinue Lan Chile charters “irrational”

  Argentina's decision to demand Lan Chile to discontinue charter flights from Santiago to the Falkland Islands was described as “irrational” by Denise Landau, Executive Director of the International Association of Antarctic Tours Operators, IAATO, adding that “everyone including Argentina stands to lose business”.

• Wednesday, January 14th 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Aznar insists Spanish sovereignty for Gibraltar

  Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar on Wednesday insisted that Gibraltar, ruled by Britain since 1713, should eventually be returned and become an integral part of Spain

• Tuesday, January 13th 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Lula set to return favours and reshuffle cabinet.

  Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's plan to build a Congressional majority and electoral alliance for the coming municipal polls with one of the parties he once bitterly battled received crucial support this Monday.