MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for 2006
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Monday, November 20th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Optimistic outlook for Argentina next year
The Argentine economy is accelerating and not decelerating said JP Morgan's vice president for emerging markets Vladimir Werning addressing an annual meeting of the Council of Americas on Argentina's prospects for next year.
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Monday, November 20th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Mexico's Lopez Obrador to be sworn in
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has toured the country as if taking a victory lap. He's named a Cabinet and called for donations to fund his government.
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Monday, November 20th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Brigadier is a new boss of BFSAI
Command
of British Forces in the South Atlantic passed from the
Royal Navy to the Army as the outgoing Commander, CommodoreIan Moncrieff, formally handed
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Monday, November 20th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Norwegian super trawler for krill industry
Norwegian industrial holding company Aker ASA announced that its subsidiary Aker BioMarine has decided to invest 170 million US dollars in building a second krill harvesting ship, probably the highest cost ever for a fishing vessel.
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Monday, November 20th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Pulp mills conflict: pickets begin “indefinite” blockade
Argentine pickets resumed action Monday afternoon with the “indefinite” blockade of land access to Uruguay to protest the building of a pulp mill plant on the Uruguayan side of the river that divides the neighboring countries.
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Monday, November 20th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Brazilian foreign debt totals 174.5 billion US dollars
Brazilian foreign debt totaled 174.560 billion US dollars at the end of October which represents a 13.7 billion US dollars increase, 8.5%, over September reported Monday the Central
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Monday, November 20th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Bachelet: nice to be in Venezuela, sorry New Zealand!
“It's not just a protocol two days visit, it's a visit to confirm achievements which are good for Venezuela?Venezuela? ?my God I'm nuts, I mean New Zealand” said Chilean president Michelle Bachelet during one of the events prepared for her in New Zealand.
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Monday, November 20th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Major setback for García in Peruvian regional elections
Peruvian president Alan García suffered Sunday a major setback in regional and municipal elections with his APRA party loosing control of most regions replaced in many cases by autonomous political movements according to the latest electoral results.
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Monday, November 20th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Landslide victory for ruling party in Paraguay
Paraguay's ruling Partido Colorado won a landslide 75% of the country's 234 municipalities in Sunday's elections which also marked a record abstention of 40%, according to local electoral authorities.
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Sunday, November 19th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Bolivian governors unite against President Morales
The elected governors of six of the nine departments which make up Bolivia, and belonging to opposition parties, have broken relations with President Evo Morales claiming he has violated constituent assembly regulations.
