MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for 2006
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Saturday, June 3rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Colombian interest in Ecuador's Oxy concession
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has expressed interest in taking over the Amazon concession in Ecuador which belonged to US Occidental Petroleum.
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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.
