MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for April 2004
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Thursday, April 15th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Cuban Human Rights: Argentina abstains, Chile condemns.
Argentine Foreign Affairs Minister Rafael Bielsa told Congress this Wednesday that Argentina will abstain from voting in United Nations on the controversial issue of human rights in Cuba because “we're convinced” that condemning “will not contribute materially to improve human rights in the island”.
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Thursday, April 15th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina bans squid fishery south of parallel 44.
As anticipated Argentine fishery authorities decided to ban squid fishing (Illex argentinus) south of parallel 44°S because of exceptionally poor catches. The decision was made official Wednesday with the publication in the Official Gazette of decree 201/3004 effective midnight tonight April 14.
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Thursday, April 15th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Giant squid heads for Natural History Museum in London.
While the Falklands Government and International Fishing Companies bemoan the current lack of commercial squid in the Falklands Economic Zone, considerable excitement has been created in the Islands by the catching of a 'giant' squid weighing 200 kilos.
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Wednesday, April 14th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Cruise visitors in Uruguay: 59.638
With the departure of “Delphin Renaissance” that called in Punta del Este and Montevideo last March 17, the 2003/2004 cruise season in Uruguay came to an end.
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Wednesday, April 14th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Mercosur invited to command Haiti peace mission.
Mercosur military representatives in United Nations have been invited to a “consultation round” with the purpose of planning for a joint long term peace keeping mission in unstable Haiti, revealed this Tuesday Uruguayan Defence Minister Yamandú Fau.
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Wednesday, April 14th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Mercosur and EU try again.
The European Union and Mercosur have postponed until next Friday the exchange of new negotiations proposals in the framework of the association, trade and cooperation agreement that has been under discussion by both blocks for over four years.
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Wednesday, April 14th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Guess who came for lunch?
The United States Embassy in Uruguay strongly denied this Tuesday that a US official stated before Uruguayan union leaders that the left wing coalition, Frente Amplio, (Broad Front) would win the coming presidential elections of next October.
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Wednesday, April 14th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Magallanes received 100.000 tourists in 2004.
Almost 100,000 tourists from all over the world visited Magallanes Region during the first quarter of 2004 according to reports from the Chilean Migration Police and Customs.
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Wednesday, April 14th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Kirchner out of hospital.
Argentine president Nestor Kirchner appeared in public this Tuesday for the first time in six days after having been hospitalized in Rio Gallegos, Santa Cruz province, suffering from a gastric haemorrhage.
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Wednesday, April 14th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Rio Governor asks for 4.000 Special Forces.
After five full days of bloody fighting between drug gangs and police forces the governor of the Brazilian state of Rio do Janeiro Rosinha Matheus officially requested 4.000 Special Forces from the federal government to help combat organized crime in the city's shanty towns, favelas.
