MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for 2005
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Tuesday, September 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
HMS Southampton in South Atlantic patrol
HMS Southampton has replaced HMS Portland as the South Atlantic patrol and is expected to arrive in the Falkland Islands this month.
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Tuesday, September 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Brazil, Venezuela interested in Scorpone submarines
The head of a French defence contractor Thales said the group expects Brazil, Venezuela and Singapore to become the next buyers of the Scorpene class conventional submarine jointly manufactured by France and Spain.
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Monday, September 12th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Argentine Illex landings doubled but not enough “to compensate”
The Argentine Illex squid season was over before the calendar date but “it was far better than in 2004, almost double catches and with a real tempting commercial price increase close to 100%”, said Hugo Stecconi, vice-president of the Argentine Jiggers Chamber and head of Pesquera Madryn.
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Monday, September 12th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Brazilian vice-president promises loyalty to Lula
Brazilian vice-president Jose Alencar said he was ready to take office if president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was impeached on corruption charges and censored. In that case the first thing I would do “is change the current monetary policy”, said Mr. Alencar in an interview published Sunday in the influential Folha de Sao Paulo.
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Monday, September 12th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Chavez in Columbia University forum
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez will be one of the star participants of a forum of world leaders organized by Columbia University next September 19.
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Monday, September 12th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Chilean Army says 1973 coup is “a closed matter”
Chilean Army Commander in chief General Juan Emilio Cheyre said that as far as the Army was concerned “the matter of September 11 is closed” referring to the September 11, 1973 bloody coup which installed the military regime of General Augusto Pinochet.
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Monday, September 12th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Cruise season: Punta Arenas expects 20% more visitors
Punta Arenas expects at least 123 cruise calls this coming 2005/06 season, including 75 foreign vessels according to the latest estimate released by the regional ports authority Empresa Portuaria Austral, EPA, which manages Punta Arenas and Puerto Natales.
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Monday, September 12th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Majority of Mercosur have negative opinion of Bush
In four of Mercosur country members' capitals over 50% have a “bad” or “very bad” opinion of President George Bush and only 12% support him according to an opinion poll done by the Latinamerican Social Sciences Faculty, Flacso.
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Monday, September 12th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Chinese president praises trade partner Mexico
Chinese President Hu Jintao praised Mexico as an “important trade partner” upon arriving Sunday in Mexico City for an official three-day visit. In a short message Hu Jintao said that two countries “share the same task of strengthening economic and social development; Mexico has become a very important partner of China in Latin America”.
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Sunday, September 11th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Falkland Oil and Gas Ltd: Extension of 2D Seismic Programme
FOGL announces that it has taken up the option, as reported at its AGM on 20 July, to extend the 8,000 km 2D survey, which commenced in June this year, by a further 7,000 km. The GSI Admiral has been commissioned by the company to undertake this programme.
