MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for March 2005
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Saturday, March 12th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Venezuela and Iran seal cooperation agreement
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and visiting Iranian president Mohammed Khatami stated Friday they “will stand together and strongly against any United States aggression”.
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Saturday, March 12th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
K: ?worst investment' unwelcome
During the ceremony the president read from a report by US business watchdog Multinacional Monitor, which releases an annual ranking of the “worst corporations in the world” that takes into consideration “fraud, price abuses, pollution and poisoning cases.”
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Saturday, March 12th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Spain recalls Atocha
Spain commemorated the first anniversary of the Madrid train bombings yesterday with tears, church bells and silent tributes to the 191 people who died in al Qaeda's worst attack in Europe.
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Saturday, March 12th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Top Spanish Politician Visits Rock.
Rafael Estrella, PSOE spokesman for the Foreign Affairs Committee at the Congreso, arrived in Gibraltar on Friday for a 48 hour visit.
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Saturday, March 12th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Families' Commission Group Arrives in Islands
A group representing the families of Argentine servicemen killed during the conflict in 1982, arrived in the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) today, Saturday 12th March, without incident.
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Friday, March 11th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Brazil legalizes GM seeds.
In a triumph for United States based biotechnology firm Monsanto Co., Brazil's lower house of Congress endorsed the creation of a framework to legalize biotech seed sales in Latin America's largest country.
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Friday, March 11th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Boycott Shell's raising fuel prices, says Kirchner.
Amid growing inflation fears Argentine President Nestor Kirchner called for “a national boycott” against Royal Dutch/Shell Group for raising fuel prices.
Thursday's statement was President Kirchner's second verbal attack on the British-Dutch oil company in two days. -
Friday, March 11th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Flag incident: three foreigners indicted
An Argentine Federal Judge indicted this week three foreign tourists who were arrested last January in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego for trampling and trashing an Argentine flag.
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Friday, March 11th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Natural gas supplies in Kirchner-Lagos agenda
The natural gas crisis, following the latest supply cuts to Chile by Argentina, has irrupted into Monday's bilateral agenda when Argentine president Nestor Kirchner meets with his Chilean counterpart Ricardo Lagos in Santiago.
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Friday, March 11th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Bolivia: Mesa and Morales at their necks
Hopes for an understanding between Bolivian president Carlos Mesa with union and opposition leaders faded late Thursday evening when talks to reach a consensus on the hydrocarbons bill currently under consideration in Congress, broke down.
