Stories for April 2005 , page 9

Saturday, April 16th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

EU candidate closer to becoming WTO head

Former European Union Trade Commissar Pascal Lamy received this week the most support in the first round of consultations for a new head of the World Trade Organization, according to officials in Geneva.

Saturday, April 16th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

US open to a “consensus candidate” for OAS post

United States is considering “all alternatives” for the election of the Organization of American States next Secretary General and doesn't discard supporting a consensus candidate, said Friday US Under Secretary for Hemispheric Affairs Roger Noriega.

Saturday, April 16th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

“Intelligent interaction” instead of Washington consensus

Surging raw material prices, better trade figures, stronger currencies and the lessons from the past seem to have imposed a sober mood in the Inter American Development Bank, IDB annual Assembly held this week in Okinawa, Japan.

Saturday, April 16th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

Sea freight rates almost double in twelve months

Sea freight costs leaving Chile have increased 90,5% in the last twelve months according to the Index of Sea Export Freights, IFNE which is calculated by the Manufacturing and Services Export Association of Chile.

Saturday, April 16th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

Aero2000-Lan begins flying June “or even before”

Lan Chile will begin operations in Argentina next June through Aero2000-Lan absorbing a thousand workers from two bankrupt Argentine airlines, was announced in Buenos Aires.

Saturday, April 16th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

Ecuador President Calls State of Emergency

Facing growing street protests demanding his ouster, President Lucio Gutierrez declared a state of emergency Friday night in the capital and dissolved the Supreme Court in an effort to resolve an escalating political crisis.

Friday, April 15th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

Chile receives first F-16 fighter bomber

Chilean Defence officials participated in Fort Worth, Texas, of the roll-out ceremony for the first of ten F-16 fighter bombers built by Lockheed-Martin and to be incorporated to the Chilean Air Force.

Friday, April 15th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

Kirchner complains about IMF incompetence

Argentine president Nestor Kirchner called in Germany for a “restructuring” of multilateral credit organizations and argued that the Argentine debt swap was successful because it left out the IMF and acted opposite to Fund's recommendations.

Friday, April 15th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

Cuba on the verge of cutting ties with EU

Cuba warned Thursday in Geneva that the budding rapprochement with the Europe Union “is on the verge of sinking” and asked the Europeans to join Havana in urging a United Nations forum to investigate the situation of detainees at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo.

Friday, April 15th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

US warns about “cloned” US dollar bills in S. America

Special agents from the United States Secret Service arrived this week in Santiago to instruct Chilean banking and police authorities on US dollar bills security seals and other safeguards following a warning from the Federal Reserve about fake 50 and 100 US dollar bills circulating in South America.