MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for 2006
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Friday, March 3rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Chilean Consumer prices drop 0.1% in February
The February Consumer price index in Chile dropped 0.1%, accumulating 4.1% in the last twelve months and 0% over December 2005, according to a Friday release from the National Statistics Institute.
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Friday, March 3rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Record cruise season for Ushuaia
Ushuaia in the extreme south of Argentina is living a record summer season with fifty cruise vessels calling and almost 100.000 visitors, according to a report from the Argentine Coast Guard.
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Friday, March 3rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Chilean president praises Chavez, rejects “leftist wave”
Chilean President Ricardo Lagos, whose term expires March 11, had kind words for controversial Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez at an economic forum in Santiago.
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Thursday, March 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Argentine Leader Touts Economic Recovery
President Nestor Kirchner told Congress on Wednesday that Argentina's recovery from a deep crisis in 2002 is one of the strongest rebounds here in a century.
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Thursday, March 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Dispute between Argentina and Uruguay
Uruguay rejected a plea by Argentine President Nestor Kirchner on Wednesday to temporarily halt construction of two pulp mills that have sparked environmental concerns, protests and a deep diplomatic crisis between the neighbors.
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Thursday, March 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Chavez-sponsored Rio Carnival club wins top title
Rio's samba parade, the highlight of the pre-Lenten carnival, is a hard-fought competition among the city's 14 top samba groups, which present 80-minute parades featuring thousands of costumed dancers, drummers and singers. The parades can cost some $2 million each.
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Thursday, March 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Punta Arenas Standard Wool plant reopens October
Standard Wool Chile S.A. from Punta Arenas which a year ago was razed to the ground by fire has begun to rebuild the plant and expects to be in full production by next October.
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Thursday, March 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina confirms second FAM outbreak in Corrientes
Argentina announced this week a second case of foot and mouth disease following the confirmation of the disease in a stray cow found in a neighboring paddock to the farm where an outbreak was first reported three weeks ago in the northeastern province of Corrientes.
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Thursday, March 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Large deposits of natural gas in Chilean Tierra del Fuego
Chilean president Ricardo Lagos confirmed Thursday that the government owned petroleum company ENAP, had discovered natural in Magallanes Region, more precisely in the Mercedes Lake, Tierra del Fuego.
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Thursday, March 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Bachelet's first trip to Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil
Chile's future president Michele Bachelet will be visiting Uruguay next March 24 following an official invitation from the government of Socialist Tabaré Vazquez, confirmed diplomatic sources in Montevideo.
