MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for 2006
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Monday, March 13th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
President Uribe posted for an easy re-election next May
The six coalition parties which support Colombian president Alvaro Uribe managed a comfortable majority in Sundays' congressional elections which forecasts a significant boost for the president's re-election bid next May and his promised fiscal and political reforms in his second four year mandate.
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Monday, March 13th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Antarctica loosing 36 cubic miles of ice annually
University of Colorado at Boulder researchers have used data from a pair of NASA satellites orbiting Earth in tandem to determine that the Antarctic ice sheet, which harbours 90% of Earth's ice, has lost significant mass in recent years.
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Monday, March 13th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
“Good Ilex season” reports Argentine press
Jiggers operating in Argentina's EEZ are currently reporting significant Illex squid catches, with Puerto Deseado in Santa Cruz province, the main unloading port reports Diario de Madryn.
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Monday, March 13th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Brazilian Army outfoxed by favelas' drug dealers
The Brazilian Army withdrew Monday from several Rio de Janeiro favelas, shantytowns, after having failed in recovering sophisticated weapons stolen from the Armed Forces by drug dealers.
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Monday, March 13th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Brazil “exported” a billion US dollars in football players
Between 1994 and 2005 Brazil exported football players to foreign clubs valued in over a billion US dollars reported the Sunday edition of O Estado de Sao Paulo, one of Brazil's main newspapers.
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Monday, March 13th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Peru's next president could be a nationalist populist
Peruvian radical populist presidential candidate Ollanta Humala appears neck to neck with conservative candidate Lourdes Flores in the run up to April 9 presidential election, according to the latest public opinion poll.
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Monday, March 13th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Armored presidential airliner for Fidel Castro
Cuba is buying one of Russia's most up-to-date airliners, carefully crafted for President Fidel Castro's personal comfort. The purchase is part of an initial Cuban order for two brand new Ilyushin planes worth 110 million U S dollars which Russian officials say is a shot in the arm for their struggling airline industry.
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Sunday, March 12th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Morales talks coca with Condoleezza
Bolivia's new president, Evo Morales, discussed his country's fight against illegal drugs yesterday with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and then gave her a guitar decorated with coca leaves.
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Sunday, March 12th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Argentine wine industry receives more than US$1.5B
The wineries tucked beneath the distant Andean mountains nearly have it all: warm days and cool nights for growing the lushest of grapes, state of the art technology and vintners bent on lifting Argentina's wine production to rival the best.
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Sunday, March 12th 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Falklands Representative takes the helm of UKOTA
FALKLAND Islander Sukey Cameron MBE has been elected to serve as the Chairman of the United Kingdom Overseas Territories Association (UKOTA). She will serve for the next twelve months.
