MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for May 2006
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Tuesday, May 16th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina's behaviour “nasty, unpleasant and irresponsible”
“Clearly when any large country tries to bully and subjugate a smaller country it should be a matter of concern for everybody. It's a matter of practical concern for us that the Argentines would try to destroy the Falklands' economy”.
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Tuesday, May 16th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Chilean Central Bank leaves rate unchanged at 5%
Chile's Central Bank left interest rates unchanged at 5% this month in the hope of slowing inflation. The action was widely foreseen by experts in the marketplace.
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Tuesday, May 16th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Vietnamese fishermen adrift rescued in Magellan Strait
Two Vietnamese crewmembers found Monday floating adrift in the icy Magellan waters and currently in Punta Arenas hospital are Vietnamese who voluntarily jumped overboard from a Taiwanese vessel according to local Prosecution sources.
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Monday, May 15th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Latinamerica turning “left” to fight poverty
Chilean president Michelle Bachelet said that the political “left turn” in Latinamerica can be seen as a “search for replies” from the region's peoples that are striving to abandon “misery and poverty”.
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Monday, May 15th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Falkland's fishery April performance encouraging
This year the performance of the Falkland Islands fishery continues to be encouraging with the total catch for the month (46,861 tonnes) being the highest catch in April in the last five years.
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Monday, May 15th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
New Haiti president takes office
Rene Preval, the only elected president in Haiti's history to finish his term, was sworn in Sunday to again lead the impoverished nation in its latest attempt at democracy after decades of armed uprisings, lawlessness and foreign intervention.
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Monday, May 15th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Organized gang crime has Sao Paulo in chaos
The street gang offensive against Brazilian police that has left scores dead continued early Monday with the overnight torching of at least 65 buses and 10 bank branches in Sao Paulo State.
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Monday, May 15th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Kirchner downplays pulp mills conflict with Uruguay
Argentine president Nestor Kirchner downplayed the conflict with Uruguay arguing that the long established relations between the neighbouring countries go far beyond the “building or not” of the controversial pulp mills.
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Monday, May 15th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Santiago, Latam second best city for business
According to The Economist business magazine, Sao Paulo, Brazil, has replaced Santiago de Chile as the best city to do business in Latin America.
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Monday, May 15th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Petrobras first quarter profit jumps 33%
Brazilian state oil company Petrobras said its first-quarter net profit rose 33% over 2005 last quarter to 6.675 billion Reais, the equivalent of 3.1 billion US dollars, boosted by an increase in crude output, sales and fuel prices.
