Stories for November 5th 2005

Saturday, November 5th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

Corruption probe encroaching on Lula's administration

Brazilian opposition leaders announced that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will be included in the months-long corruption probe, following revelations that money diverted from a government managed bank funded a network of illegal payments by the ruling Workers Party, PT.

Saturday, November 5th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

Uruguay steps up FAM controls in Brazilian border

Uruguay stepped up border sanitary controls in anticipation of “unpleasant” surprises following at least fourteen outbreaks of foot and mouth disease in neighbouring Brazil.

Saturday, November 5th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

A Swiss sketch on Falklanders' fears

“Kelpers live physically and geographically in a continent but psychologically and mentally in another, in a mythical Great Britain which probably no longer corresponds with reality”, writes Swiss journalist Jean Bernard Vuilleme in his recently published short book “Notes on Malvinas”.

Saturday, November 5th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

Davidoff's South Georgia claim definitively closed

An Argentine court closed an old chapter of the South Atlantic conflict when it rejected a claim against the United Kingdom from a businessman who was forcibly evicted from South Georgia in 1982 following the flying of an Argentine flag, an episode that is blamed for the precipitation of the armed confrontation, reports the Buenos Aires press.

Saturday, November 5th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

Mexico calls on Mercosur to stop blocking FTAA

Rioting in the streets of Mar del Plata and ongoing disputes among leaders over free trade and the Free Trade Area of the Americas, FTAA, marked the first of the two days IV Summit of the Americas.

Saturday, November 5th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

Bush praises Kirchner's record in a “candid” interview

President George W. Bush said on Friday after meeting with host president Nestor Kirchner that the excellent record of the Argentine economy “is such now that he can take his case to the IMF with a much stronger hand”.