MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for 2006
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Wednesday, November 8th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Floor price for oil: 50 US dollars says Chavez
Oil prices should have a floor of 50 US dollars per barrel and crude exporting countries will coordinate efforts to prevent it from breaking that threshold said Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez.
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Wednesday, November 8th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Chile launches an ambitious tourism promotion plan
Chile launched Wednesday an ambitious four year plan to promote tourism with the target of having three million foreign tourists visit the country by 2010 and income generated topping the two billion US dollars mark.
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Wednesday, November 8th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Uruguay cancels debt and stand by program with IMF
Uruguay announced its intention to repay early all outstanding obligations to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), amounting to an estimated 1.080 billion US dollars. Finance minister Danilo Astori also announced the canceling the current Stand-By Arrangement which extended until 2008.
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Tuesday, November 7th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Fourth Royal Navy drugs bust in two months
British naval forces have taken part this week in a fourth major drugs bust on the high seas within the past two months hauling 1.3 tons of cocaine.
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Tuesday, November 7th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Second chance for reformed Ortega in Nicaragua
Sixteen years after he was ousted by voters weary of war, rationing and a devastated economy, Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega looks set to have a new chance as president of Nicaragua.
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Tuesday, November 7th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Chile targets three million tourists by 2010
Chile expects to receive three million foreign tourist by 2010 revealed the country's head of Tourism Promotion currently in London for the International Tourist Fair.
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Tuesday, November 7th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Forty top banks want to finance Panama Canal works
Forty domestic and international banks have offered to finance the expansion of the Panama Canal including the building of three new locks, an overall investment estimated in 5.2 billion US dollars reports this week the Panamanian press.
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Tuesday, November 7th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Icebergs traced to giant berg south of Falklands
Scientists from New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Niwa believe they have traced the history of a flotilla of icebergs discovered drifting about 260km south of this insular country.
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Tuesday, November 7th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Mastermind of Falklands's invasion arrested
Former member of the Argentine military Junta and one of the masterminds behind the 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands, Admiral Jorge Anaya has been detained for alleged crimes against humanity perpetrated at the notorious Mechanical School of the Navy.
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Monday, November 6th 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Blank ballots win in unstable Ecuador
The final count of votes in Ecuador's October 15 general election shows a discouraging no win situation for the political system. According to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal the winner in eleven of the country's 22 provinces was the blank ballot paper.
