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Stories for March 16th 2004

• Tuesday, March 16th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Ready for the (500 billion US dollars) Rio Declaration

  Argentina trusts that presidents Nestor Kirchner and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will agree on a strategy, “more or less homogeneous”, to discuss about their huge foreign debts with multilateral organisations, said Argentine Minister of Interior Aníbal Fernández in Buenos Aires.

• Tuesday, March 16th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  US criticizes Aristide's presence in Jamaica

  The State Department said this Monday that the presence of former Haiti president Jean Bertrand Aristide in the Caribbean “serves no purpose”, and called for attention on what is happening in Haiti, and not in what happens with Aristide.

• Tuesday, March 16th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Dominican Republic and US conclude Free Trade agreement

  The Dominican Republic and the United States successfully concluded this weekend negotiations for a free trade agreement after having overcome some pending details in agriculture, textiles and intellectual property.

• Tuesday, March 16th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Chilean peso stabilizes in 600 pesos to the US dollar

  Following months of constant appreciation the Chilean currency seems to have rebounded stabilizing above the threshold of 600 pesos to the US dollar.

• Tuesday, March 16th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Venezuela faces a new institutional dispute

  Venezuela's Supreme Court this Monday voided a ruling by electoral authorities that hundreds of thousands of signatures supporting a recall referendum against President Hugo Chavez were “dubious” and must be confirmed by their authors

• Tuesday, March 16th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Socialist Spain returns to the EU flock

  The surprise victory of the Socialists in Spain, and defeat of staunch allied Jose Aznar, comes as a new challenge for the George Bush administration and its Iraq policy.