MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for 2005
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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.
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Monday, September 26th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Falklands finally to have mobile phones
According to Rick Hall, a representative of the electronics company Cable & Wireless, the Falkland Islands should, by December this year, join the rest of the world by having a mobile telephone system.
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Monday, September 26th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Colombian president re-election bid with 56% support
Colombia president Alvaro Uribe would be elected in the first round by 56% of the vote if his re-election bid is accepted by a special tribunal and if polling was now, according to a prestigious political and business magazine La Semana.
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Monday, September 26th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Expedition claims discovery of Robinson Crusoe's treasure
Members of a Chilean expedition believe they have found Robinson Crusoe's legendary hidden treasure of jewels and gold coins dating back to XVIII century with an estimate value of 10 billion US dollars, reports the Chilean press.
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Monday, September 26th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
World Bank agrees to condone poorest countries debt
World Bank members reached an agreement this weekend to condone 55 billion US dollars of debs owed by the world's poorest countries to multilateral credit organizations.
