Chilean salmon and trout exports reached 820 million US dollars during the first seven months of 2004, a 22% increase over the same period in 2003, according to SalmonChile A.G., the Chilean salmon industry association.
United States federal budget deficit is forecasted to reach a record breaking 422 billion US dollars in 2004, according to the Congressional Budget Office, CBO. However the figure is below earlier estimates.
Chilean Defence Minister Michele Bachelet received this week a privileged red carpet treatment in Holland where she was invited by her Dutch counterpart Henk Kamp and Secretary of State Cees van der Knaap.
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, will maintain the oil prices reference band unchanged in the coming meeting scheduled for September 15 in Vienna, said Purnomo Yusgiantoro, OPEC's president.
Consumer inflation in Chile last August reached 0,4% pushed by energy, housing and food prices, and above market analysts forecast of 0,3%, according to the latest report released last Friday.
The Argentine House of Deputies Foreign Affairs Committee has unanimously decided to hold a session in Antarctica next November 12 to underline the country's long historical Antarctic tradition, reports the Argentine press.
DAP Airways from Punta Arenas is planning fifteen air cruises to Antarctica this coming season between November and March 15 totaling 700 visitors. Last season the number of cruises was twelve and the visitors 400.
A strong seism followed by replicas shook Tuesday morning great extensions of central and northern Argentina causing alarm in several cities and leaving at least one person killed and tens injured.
South Georgia's Director of Fisheries said this week that the island's toothfish season had run smoothly despite some early reluctance by a small number of fishing companies to have catches inspected.
Canada's Uruguay Minerals Exploration plans to bring the Arenal deposit online at its San Gregorio gold mine in Uruguay in October, company CEO Chris Clark told to the press