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Stories for 2006

• Friday, July 21st 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Penguin News Update

  Headlines:
  Pilgrimage 2007: Planning begins for visit by 200 veterans; Employment talk; Second loligo season starts; Teachers ?unhappy' at FICS; Military say a flying farewell.

• Friday, July 21st 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  South American leaders gather in Cordoba

  Brazil and Argentina are already the number one and two economies in South America, followed by oil-rich Venezuela. Foreign ministers of Mercosur spent the day yesterday hashing out details of today's presidential summit.

• Friday, July 21st 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Can Chavez & Castro push Mercosur leftward?

  Can Chavez & Castro push Mercosur leftward? President Hugo Chavez makes Venezuela's debut as a member of the Mercosur trade bloc at a two-day summit in Cordoba which drew a rare appearance abroad by Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

• Friday, July 21st 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazil's Varig Sold in Auction to Former Cargo Unit

  Varig, Latin America's oldest airline, averted liquidation as its former cargo unit agreed to invest more than $600 million to take over its operating assets and preserve many of the company's 9,500 jobs.

• Friday, July 21st 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Minister of Defense welcomes new submarine to Chile

  Minister of Defense Vivianne Blanlot welcomed a new addition this week to Chile's submarine fleet at the port city of Cartagena in southern Spain.

• Friday, July 21st 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Petrobras- Venezuelan joint venture

  Brazil's state-run oil company has signed a joint venture agreement that brings oil pumping operations under Venezuelan government control, officials said yesterday.

• Friday, July 21st 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Mercosur supports Venezuela for UN Security Council

  Mercosur full members expressed on Friday support Venezuela for the United Nations Security Council non permanent seat for the coming 2007/08 period.

• Friday, July 21st 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Latinamerica has all to become a “world power”

  Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez said in Cordoba that the unity of the peoples and governments of Latinamerica are the path to turn the region into a “world power” because “each of us on our won can't achieve it”.

• Thursday, July 20th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Chile rules out review of border with Bolivia

  Chile said Wednesday that inclusion of the access to the sea issue in the bilateral agenda with Bolivia does not mean Santiago entertains the idea of giving up any territory.

• Thursday, July 20th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Federal Reserve: “some inflation risks remain”

  The US Federal Reserve expects inflation to retreat from its recent highs but it could still raise interest rates further (in August) to guard against the risk of a costly inflation surprise, said Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke to Congress on Wednesday.