MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for September 2005
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Thursday, September 29th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Plot to delay elections denounced by Bolivian candidate
Bolivian favourite presidential hopeful Evo Morales claimed the existence of a plan orchestrated by his country's “oligarchy” to delay the coming December elections, but this will “only delay their own defeat”.
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Thursday, September 29th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Relief for the embattled Lula administration
A close ally of Brazilian president Lula da Silva, Communist Aldo Rebelo was elected late Wednesday head of the Lower House, a much needed victory for the embattled administration.
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Thursday, September 29th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Cuba “big brother” network celebrates 45th anniversary
The Cuban communist regime celebrated this week the 45th anniversary of the neighbourly “big brother” organization which keeps a close eye on almost every Cuban citizen and foreign visitors, virtually covering the whole island.
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Thursday, September 29th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Desperate efforts to rescue men trapped in Antarctic crevasse
The Argentine team involved in the search of two missing members disappeared in an Antarctic crevasse since September 17, joined Thursday the rescue efforts of the Chilean Army that has three men trapped in a snow vehicle which plunged forty metres into a crack in the ice cap.
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Tuesday, September 27th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Mercosur becoming a world leading cellulose producer
Mercosur is forecasted to become a world cellulose production pole with investments in three plants and forests, from one company only equivalent to 3,75 billion US dollars.
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Tuesday, September 27th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Chavez moves ahead with his “agrarian reform”
The Venezuelan government expropriated this week a corn silos plant belonging to the country's main agro-business corporation as part of its campaign to take over “idle” companies and farmland and hand them to workers and peasants.
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Tuesday, September 27th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Brazilian Workers Party support rapidly eroding
The extent of the disillusion with the corruption scandal involving the Brazilian administration of President Lula da Silva is taking its toll in the ruling Workers Party, four Deputies resigned and 400 grass root leaders have left.
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Tuesday, September 27th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Latinamerica faces 14 elections in next 18 months
Risk assessment agencies anticipate that political rattling in the coming eighteen months when elections will be held in fourteen Latinamerican countries could delay the implementation of structural reforms in some of them.
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Tuesday, September 27th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
UN health agency warns of brewing flu pandemic
There will be another influenza pandemic and failure to prepare for it appropriately will have “catastrophic consequences,” the head of the United Nations health agency warned Tuesday, calling for national control plans worldwide and massive international collaboration to prevent the potential deaths of millions of people.
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Monday, September 26th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina seeks agreement with IMF including “hold outs”
The Argentine government announced over the weekend in Washington that it seeks a credit accord with the International Monetary Fund and advanced it's willing to address the hold outs of the massive sovereign bonds restructuring program officially closed.
