Stories for March 25th 2004

Thursday, March 25th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

Uruguay drafting new fisheries law

Uruguay is putting the finishing touches to new fishery legislation to replace the current Law dating from 1969, announced director of the National Directorate of Aquatic Resources (DINARA) Yamandú Flangini during a conference at the Maritime League of Uruguay.

Thursday, March 25th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

LAN: new corporate image and more expansion

Chile's main air flag carrier presented this week in Santiago its new corporate image, both internationally and domestically, with the trade mark LAN, which will identify and unify all the companies with the Lan prefix, Lan Chile, Lan Peru, Lan Ecuador and Lan Dominicana.

Thursday, March 25th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

Dictators' portraits withdrawn from military academy

In a related event marking Argentina's Army commander this Wednesday withdrew the portraits of two former General dictators from the walls of the military academy.

Thursday, March 25th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

Argentina honours victims of last dictatorship

In a very emotive ceremony on the 28th anniversary of Argentina's last military coup, president Nestor Kirchner and Buenos Aires Mayor Anibal Ibarra signed this Wednesday in Buenos Aires City an agreement making one of the most notorious symbols of the bloody repression of the seventies, the Naval School of Mechanics, into a Space for the Memory, Promotion and Defence of Human Rights.