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Stories for June 2005

• Monday, June 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  New heart operations in Punta Arenas

  Next July a special team of Santiago cardio surgeons will be arriving in Punta Arenas to perform heart operations in the local hospital.

• Monday, June 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  EU will review Cuba's human rights record in 2006

  As was expected European Union Foreign Affairs ministers decided Monday in Luxembourg not to re-establish diplomatic sanctions on Cuba, which were suspended earlier this year, despite a record of lack of “satisfactory progress” in human rights.

• Monday, June 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Kirchner-Duhalde: agreement or confrontation?

  Peronist party leaders in the Buenos Aires province said that an agreement over candidacies for the October midterm election between President Néstor Kirchner and former interim president Eduardo Duhalde ought to be clinched “within the next eight to ten days”.

• Monday, June 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Benedict XVI could visit Argentina/Chile in 2007

  Pope Benedict XVI is likely to visit Argentina or Chile in 2007 when the Fifth General Conference of the Latinamerican Synod, said Vatican sources.

• Monday, June 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Refurbished Mirage 2000-C for Brazil

  Brazil is currently negotiating the purchase of twelve refurbished combat aircraft from France to replace the old Mirages that have been on service for over thirty years.

• Monday, June 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina/Chile joint seat for 2014 World Football Cup

  If Chile and Argentina request the joint seat for the Football World Cup in 2014, they can “perfectly be the organizers”, said FIFA president Joseph Blatter who added that South America has been chosen as host of the 2014 Cup.

• Monday, June 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Hispanics consolidate as first minority in US

  The Latino population consolidated as the main minority in United States with 41,3 million people mainly because of a growth rate that is three times higher than the overall population, according to a report from the US Census Office.

• Monday, June 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Chile and Uruguay among the less corrupt

  Chile, Uruguay and Costa Rica figure with the best qualifications among Latinamerican countries in a list regarding corruption which was considered in the Fourth Global Forum on Fighting Corruption held in Brasilia.

• Sunday, June 12th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands War - Official History: “Result could have been different”

  New revelations in the soon to be published British official “History of the Falklands Campaign” indicate that a few key acts by Argentine commanders could have produced a different outcome, possibly avoiding defeat.

• Sunday, June 12th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Bolivia is “a creditor not a debtor of G 8”

  Bolivia's main opposition leader Evo Morales described the G 8 rich countries decision to condone the entire debts of 18 poor countries, including Bolivia, as a “small step forward”, although he argued that his country is not a debtor but rather a creditor of the rich world.