MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for 2005
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Tuesday, February 22nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Sweeping reforms in Argentine airports security.
The Argentine government is planning a new security agency to man the country's airports following the recent drug traffic scandal at Buenos Aires main international terminal, Ezeiza.
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Tuesday, February 22nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Kirchner optimistic with defaulted bonds exchange
Argentine president Nestor Kirchner “kindly” called on all creditors of the country's defaulted sovereign debt to remember that this week is the last chance to accept the exchange for new bonds.
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Tuesday, February 22nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Avian Cholera to blame for South Georgia penguin deaths.
THE deaths of hundreds of Chinstrap penguins at Cooper Bay, South Georgia late last year have been blamed on Avian Cholera (Pasturella multocida), a bacterium that has previously been identified in the Antarctic and other sub-Antarctic islands.
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Tuesday, February 22nd 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina arrests second squid poacher in a week.
Headlines:
Argentine Coast Guard arrests second Taiwanese poacher; Invasive oyster threatens Gulf of San Matias; Santa Cruz shrimp fishery opens March 1. -
Monday, February 21st 2005 - 21:00 UTC
HMS Gloucester heading for Brazil.
South Atlantic patrol HMS Gloucester left the Falkland Islands last Friday and is heading north towards Brazil.
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Monday, February 21st 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Further purge in Venezuelan government oil industry
Rafael Ramirez Venezuelan Energy and Oil Minister, and president of Petroleos de Venezuela, or PDVSA, announced the government owned company was sacking dozens of managers and supervisors allegedly involved in corruption practices.
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Monday, February 21st 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Fisheries News.
Headlines:
Uruguayan Navy arrests Brazilian poacher;
Salmon safeguards: EU accepts consultation process with Chile; European Fisheries Agency takes off in 2006; 199 Spanish vessels allowed to fish in Northeast Atlantic; New denomination for Chilean scallop exports to Italy. -
Monday, February 21st 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Brazilian business and unions blast monetary policy.
Brazilian business organizations and trade unions bitterly criticized the Central Bank's monetary policy which last week raised the basic interest rate, Selic, for the sixth consecutive time, to 18,75%, considered the highest in the world.
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Monday, February 21st 2005 - 21:00 UTC
OAS Secretary General still an open race.
United States Under Secretary for Hemispheric Affairs Roger Noriega said that the coming election of the next Organization of American States, OAS, Secretary General should be decided before June when the region's Foreign Affairs ministers will be holding a regular meeting in Fort Lauderdale.
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Monday, February 21st 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Massive shellfish intoxication in Chile.
Chilean Deputy Public Health Minister Soledad Ubilla discarded decreeing a “sanitary emergency” since the medical centres capacity has not been overwhelmed by the extending sea food intoxication crisis which has reached 5,955 cases.
