MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for July 2005
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Tuesday, July 12th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Fed anticipates further increase in interest rates
Richmond Federal Reserve president Jeffrey Lacker said it was too soon to anticipate when the United States central bank would interrupt the current higher interest rates tendency and on the contrary suggested further increases.
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Tuesday, July 12th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
An 8 million US dollars Brazilian bishop
The Brazilian federal police arrested Monday a Congressman and several members of the Universal Church who were about to take off in a private plane from Brasilia airport carrying luggage stuffed with millions of US dollars.
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Tuesday, July 12th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Chileans proud of government managed copper industry
Nine out of ten Chileans oppose the privatization of Codelco, the country's top corporation and further more favour keeping the huge copper industry as well as its petroleum and other mining enterprises in government hands, revealed a report published Monday in Santiago's La Nacion.
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Tuesday, July 12th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Ushuaia preparing to receive Queen Mary II
The port of Ushuaia has formally requested funds from the Argentine federal government for the extension of the main pier, making it one of the few ports in the world where the new generation of cruise vessels can dock.
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Tuesday, July 12th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Mercosur countries CAN associate members
Mercosur full members have become associate members of the Andean Community of Nations, CAN, reported the Peruvian Foreign Affairs Ministry press office in Lima.
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Monday, July 11th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Sir Lawrence and Islanders heroism incidents
The author of the new official history of the Falklands War says he feels “genuinely uncomfortable” that many incidents of heroism displayed by Islanders and others during the campaign are barely discussed in his book.
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Monday, July 11th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Another chance for Bolivian presidential hopeful
Bolivian Congressman and peasant leader Evo Morales who finished second in the 2002 presidential race announced officially Sunday that he would seek Bolivia's presidency in December 4 general elections.
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Monday, July 11th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Texas: 29 cattle sacrificed and tested for BSE
Twenty nine livestock from a Texas herd have been sacrificed and Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis, BSE, “mad cow” tests will be done on samples, reported the United States Department of Agriculture.
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Monday, July 11th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Velvet and fist battle for the province of Buenos Aires
The full fledged political dispute for the province of Buenos Aires was confirmed this weekend when Argentine president Nestor Kirchner and former caretaker president Eduardo Duhalde openly supported their hand picked candidates for the Senate which happen to be their respective wive
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Monday, July 11th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Squid prospecting to begin 18 July in the northern zone
The National Institute for Fisheries Research and Development (INIDEP) recommended to the Federal Fisheries Council (CFP) to launch, next 18 July, the prospecting of Argentine shortfin squid (Illex argentinus) in the northern area of the Argentine fishing ground, which also includes the Common Fishing Zone (ZOCOPES) shared by Argentina and Uruguay.
