MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for 2004
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Tuesday, October 19th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
ALADI supports Argentina's Falklands claim.
Latinamerican Integration Association, ALADI, representatives meeting in Montevideo this Monday for the naming of a new Secretary General, gave their full support to Argentina's sovereign foreign debt restructuring efforts and claim over the Falkland Islands.
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Tuesday, October 19th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Kirchner openly support Uruguayan presidential candidate.
Uruguayan presidential hopeful Tabare Vazquez who leads in the public opinion polls met Monday morning in Buenos Aires with Argentine president Nestor Kirchner.
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Monday, October 18th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Brazil shoot-down policy for unidentified aircrafts
All suspicious aircraft entering Brazilian airspace which refuses to identify itself will run the risk of being shot down by the Air Force under a new security bill that became effective this Sunday.
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Monday, October 18th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Cuba rejects EU approach.
The Cuban government's expulsion of a Spanish Member of Parliament and two Dutch legislators is proof that Fidel Castro's Communist regime has no interest in patching up relations with Spain or the European Union, Cuban dissidents said in Havana.
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Monday, October 18th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Sustainable Antarctic tourism challenges.
Antarctic tourism and threats to the white continent biodiversity and conservation were at the heart of the “Science and Sustainable Tourism” seminar which took place in the framework of the APEC Third Tourism Ministers Encounter in Punta Arenas, sponsored by Magallanes Region government and the Chilean Antarctic Institute.
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Monday, October 18th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Falkland Conservation Director to leave.
The Director of the Falkland Islands principal non-governmental environmental research and protection organization will be leaving the Islands in March 2005.
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Sunday, October 17th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
LAN's Enrique Cueto selected CEO of the Year.
Latin Finance magazine citing ten straight years of profits and a whopping 300% jump in stock prices since 2002, has named LAN Chile's Enrique Cueto as its CEO of the Year. The magazine's October 2004 issue ? dedicated to infrastructure investment ? carries a wide-ranging interview with the Chilean airline executive written by Mary Dempsey.
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Sunday, October 17th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Record US trade deficit last August.
Oil prices and China's monetary competitiveness are blamed for the last August 54 billion US dollars trade deficit, the second highest in recent United States history.
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Sunday, October 17th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Paraguay shocked by lack of law and order.
Thousands of Paraguayans took to the streets of the capital Asunción to protest increasing crime following a wave of killings and kidnappings.
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Sunday, October 17th 2004 - 21:00 UTC
Former OAS President Under House Arrest.
A San Jose court on Saturday placed former Costa Rica President and OAS Secretary General Miguel Angel Rodriguez under six months' house arrest while awaiting trial on corruption charges.
