202620252024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012201120102009200820072006200520042003200220012000 All months123456789101112 All days12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031 All categoriesAgricultureEconomyEnergy & OilEnvironmentFisheriesHealth & ScienceInvestmentsPoliticsReal EstateTourismAntarcticaArgentinaBrazilChileFalkland IslandsInternationalLatin AmericaMercosurPacific AllianceParaguayUnited StatesUruguayVenezuelaVenezuelaUnasurEntertainment List Articles

Stories for January 31st 2005

• Monday, January 31st 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Chubut processing plants have exhausted hake quota.

  Members from the Chamber of Fisheries And Fresh Fish Processing Companies of the Gulf of San Jorge (CAEPPEFRE) in Argentine Patagonia have warned that all fresh fish vessels operating out of the Port of Comodoro Rivadavia, Chubut province, have already exhausted the hake (Merluccius hubbsi) quota allocated by the federal government in early January 2005.

• Monday, January 31st 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Chavez proclaims “Socialism is not dead”

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez proclaimed to activists at the World Social Forum Sunday in Brazil, that “socialism is not dead” and announced an “agrarian revolution” in his country with the seizure of 20 million hectares (49.3 million acres).

• Monday, January 31st 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  41% of Brazilians overweight.

  More Brazilians die each year from obesity health related problems than from malnutrition, reported Sunday O Globo newspaper in Rio do Janeiro.

• Monday, January 31st 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  OPEC leaves production level unchanged.

  The Organization of Oil Producing and Export Countries, OPEC meeting in Vienna Sunday agreed to keep oil output levels unchanged at 27 million barrels per day in spite of a 40% increase in crude prices during the last twelve months.

• Monday, January 31st 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Colombia-Venezuela is officially over.

  Colombia and Venezuela announced in an agreed statement that the crisis over the capture of a guerrilla commander is over and anticipated a presidential summit for next February 3.

• Monday, January 31st 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  With few ideas to combat poverty concludes Davos Forum.

  The World Economic Forum gathered in Davos, Switzerland concluded Sunday with a message of hope for the Korean peninsula but with very few ideas of how to reduce poverty, combat sickness and stimulate the world economy.

• Monday, January 31st 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Mount Pleasant Open Day aims to reassure

  On Sunday, the British military base at Mount Pleasant in the Falkland Islands played host to the civilian population at an Open Day.

• Monday, January 31st 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  FO Minister Bill Rammel will visit Brazil.

  Bill Rammell, Foreign Office Minister for Latin America, is visiting Brazil from 31 January to 1 February.