MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for 2005
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Tuesday, November 1st 2005 - 20:00 UTC
Brazil and Argentina with hefty trade surpluses
Brazil's trade surplus during the first ten months of 2005 almost surpassed the 2004 record, announced Tuesday the Brazilian Central Bank. By the end of October, the surplus was 36,350 billion US dollars while in 2004 it had totalled 33,696 billion.
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Tuesday, November 1st 2005 - 20:00 UTC
HMS Cumberland seizes £ 200 million in drug bust
The British frigate HMS Cumberland has seized a two-tonne haul of cocaine with a UK street value of some £200 Million in a Caribbean drug bust, reports the Royal Navy.
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Tuesday, November 1st 2005 - 20:00 UTC
Fed raises rate to 4% and anticipates more
Determined to keep inflationary pressures in check and in a move expected by market analysts the Federal Reserve decided Tuesday to raise interest rates for the twelfth consecutive time increasing the base rate by 25 points to 4%.
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Monday, October 31st 2005 - 20:00 UTC
Cuba denies money contribution to Lula's campaign
Cuba categorically denied Sunday having contributed three million US dollars to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's electoral campaign in 2002 as was attributed by the latest edition of Veja magazine.
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Monday, October 31st 2005 - 20:00 UTC
One week deadline for Bolivian Congress
Indian leader and presidential candidate Evo Morales gave Bolivia's Congress one week deadline to ratify the early general elections set for December.
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Monday, October 31st 2005 - 20:00 UTC
Megaport cruise terminal project for Buenos Aires
The cruise industry encouraging prospects has led a group of Argentine private investors to present a Megaport project for Buenos Aires City, which includes a new terminal, convention centre and several apartment towers distributed in a wide open park, reports the Argentine press.
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Monday, October 31st 2005 - 20:00 UTC
Argentina: positive tourism trade balance
The tourism trade balance in the second quarter of 2005 was positive for Argentina in 27 million US dollars according to the latest release from the Statistics and Census Office.
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Monday, October 31st 2005 - 20:00 UTC
British group to re-edit Scott's first polar expedition
A British group, the Numis Polar Challenge will be attempting to re-edit this season Robert Falcon Scott's first expedition to the South Pole, revealed Peter McDowell, General Manager of Adventure Network Chile, affiliate of Antarctic Logistics & Expeditions, (ALE).
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Monday, October 31st 2005 - 20:00 UTC
Lagos, darling leader for Latinamerican elites
Chilean president Ricardo Lagos is the most popular leader among the 34 heads of state that will be arriving in Mar del Plata, Argentina, for the IV America's Summit.
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Monday, October 31st 2005 - 20:00 UTC
Gibraltar-Spain air cooperation improving
Spain's refusal to allow last Wednesday's diverted Monarch Air flight to go straight to Gibraltar airport from Malaga does not reflect any change of policy on Spain's part, according to Jose Pons, the Spanish Foreign Ministry's Director for Europe, reports the Gibraltar Chronicle.
