MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for June 2006
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Saturday, June 3rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Chilean students announce Monday national strike
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet said Saturday she was open to talks with protesting high-school students even when the government's latest, and apparently definitive, proposal was rejected by demonstration leaders.
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Saturday, June 3rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Lula promises Brazil will become an OEPC member
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva promised an “energy revolution” that will make Brazil a member of OPEC and a leading exporter of bio-fuel.
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Friday, June 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Eleven bidders show interest
Eleven companies have shown interest in acquiring the routes, planes and offices of Brazil's embattled Varig airline, the carrier said yesterday.
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Friday, June 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Penguin News Update.
Headlines:
Challenge Day makes ?em smile; Belt up - it's the law; Move ?best for tourism'; November date for police trial; How healthy are we?
A Liberation Day performance. -
Friday, June 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Chile and Argentina to reopen Tran's Andean train
Bids will be taken in late July for a 270 km railroad concession for a cargo train service connecting Los Andes, Chile to Mendoza, Argentina. Seventy kilometers of the train track are in Chilean territory.
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Friday, June 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina: Gay but ?hetero-friendly'
The first five-star gay hotel in Latin America will open in Buenos Aires next year, two Spanish businessmen said yesterday as they launched the project.
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Friday, June 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Chilean students offered concessions
President Michelle Bachelet offered several concessions to Chilean high school students, whose nationwide protests have posed an early challenge to her three-month-old government.
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Friday, June 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Brazil asks explanation for Mr Blair's gaffe
Relations between Britain and Brazil have struck a new low after a careless slip by the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, during a major foreign policy speech in Washington last week.
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Friday, June 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Lula da Silva looks unbeatable for Brazilian opposition
Brazil's incumbent Socialist president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva seems comfortably on track to re-election elections next October reveals a new public opinion poll released this week by Rede O'Globo the country's main network.
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Friday, June 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
India sets foot in Bolivia with giant steel/iron project
India's Jindal Steel and Power has won the contract to mine and process the rich Bolivian iron ore deposit of Mutun, next to the Brazilian border, an investment in the range of 2.3 billion US dollars, announced Bolivia's Planning and Development Minister Carlos Villegas
