MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for June 2006
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Tuesday, June 27th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
More voters than people in Venezuelan Electoral Roll
Venezuela has more above 45 registered voters in the Electoral Roll than population, claims one of Caracas leading newspapers, El Nacional.
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Tuesday, June 27th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina honors Malvinas' war dead
Argentina's Defence minister Nilda Garré paid tribute on Monday to all military and civilian personnel who died during the Malvinas Islands war, and whose courage in combat she contrasted with the dictatorship's “irresponsible decision” to take Argentina to war in 1982.
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Tuesday, June 27th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Islands represented at Brazil ACAP meeting
THE Environmental Planning Officer says she was proud to represent the Falkland Islands at a conference in Brasilia this month.
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Tuesday, June 27th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina considers ignoring Falklands' oil agreement
Malvinas claim DVD for all foreign touristHydrocarbons exploration in the Malvinas basin figures as the main agenda issue of the standing Parliamentary Observatory committee which will be officially inaugurated next Thursday in Argentina's Congress.
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Monday, June 26th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Lula da Silva's administration, the second most corrupt
Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva administration is the second most corrupt in the country's recent history according to a survey from the Perseu Abramo Foundation belonging to the Workers Party which last Saturday confirmed Lula's re-election bid.
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Monday, June 26th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Cuba to sign economic treaty in Mercosur summit
Cuba will sign a multilateral economic complementation agreement with Mercosur at the end of July when the group's presidential summit scheduled to be held in Cordoba, Argentina. However the participation of Fidel Castro has not been confirmed.
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Monday, June 26th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Good and bad news for Uruguay's pulp industry
A Canadian forestry company has shown interest in establishing a pulp mill in Uruguay, which would be the fourth undertaking of this nature, reports the Montevideo press.
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Monday, June 26th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Colombian guerrilla proposes “political solution”
Colombia's largest guerrilla group called for a political solution to the country's decades long internal armed conflict with a “prisoners exchange” as the first step in that direction.
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Monday, June 26th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
EU stands firm ahead of WTO meeting
France and Finland said Monday in Paris that the European Union will make no new tariff reduction proposals for farm produce at the World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting next Thursday in Geneva.
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Monday, June 26th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Buenos Aires and Montevideo among cheapest cities
Moscow has replaced Tokyo as the world's most expensive city, according to the latest Cost of Living Survey from Mercer Human Resource Consulting. Seoul is in second place, climbing three places since last year and Tokyo moves down two positions in the rankings to take third place, followed by Hong Kong.
