MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for July 2006
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Friday, July 7th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Carter calls for “no foreign influence” in Nicaragua
Former United States President Jimmy Carter called for transparency in the coming Nicaraguan November presidential election hopefully “with no foreign influence of any kind”.
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Friday, July 7th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina pretends 50% hike in gas price sale to Chile
Argentina's natural gas exports to Chile will be taxed and twelve different formulas to calculate the new range of prices were handed to Chile's Energy and Mining Minister Karen Poniachik.
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Friday, July 7th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
US implicit support for Calderon's victory
United States congratulated on Friday the Mexican people for the “free and fair elections” and expressed “full confidence” in the country's democratic institutions.
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Thursday, July 6th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Bachelet speaks freely with reporters
President Michelle Bachelet held an informal breakfast Tuesday with the National Press Association and frankly discussed many issues surrounding her presidency.
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Thursday, July 6th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Migrants' remittances foster development
Remittances from migrants to their home countries have great potential to foster economic development, a senior United Nations official told the press in Geneva.
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Thursday, July 6th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Mexico' official recount shows Lopez Obrador leading
The official manual recount of Sunday ballots in Mexico's tight presidential election is showing Social-democrat candidate Manuel Lopez Obrador leading over his Conservative rival Felipe Calderon by 2.53 points.
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Thursday, July 6th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Chavez displays new Russian planes and arms
Venezuela' Hugo Chavez celebrated Wednesday the country's Independence Day with a display of sophisticated aircrafts and arms purchased from Russia following an arms and spares freeze imposed by United States several months ago.
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Thursday, July 6th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Vazquez hints at mill dialogue
Uruguayan President Tabaré Vazquez yesterday said that a warm embrace with his Argentine counterpart Néstor Kirchner in Caracas on Tuesday night was “a sign toward dialogue” between the two countries which are engaged in a bitter spat over the construction of two pulp mills in Uruguay.
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Thursday, July 6th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Kirchner: “Venezuela is a full democracy”
Mercosur should design a common strategy of security, sovereignty and defence, said Chavez.
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Thursday, July 6th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina's inflation in June 0.5% and 4.9% in six months
Argentina's Consumer price index in June reached 0.5%, with an accumulated six months 4.9% and below the Kirchner administration annualized 10% target, according to the latest release from the Statistics and Census Office.
