MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for 2006
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Monday, October 23rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Brazil plans to build seven nuclear reactors
Brazil announced the construction of seven nuclear plants by 2025 to ensure energy sufficiency with economic efficiency.
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Monday, October 23rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Torres del Paine forecasts 115.000 visitors this year
In the first nine months of 2006, Chile's Torres del Paine Park received 70.000 visitors according to the country's Forestry Corporation.
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Monday, October 23rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Chilean domestic air traffic expanding 5/6% annually
Chilean domestic air traffic is growing at an annual rate of 5 to 6% and in the last fifteen years the number of passengers jumped from 3 to 10 million revealed Chile's Civil Aviation Director Enrique Rosende Alba.
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Monday, October 23rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Punta Arenas expects 167 cruise calls and 100.000 visitors
Punta Arenas 2006/07 cruise season is expecting 163 calls and just over 100.000 visitors, (66.000 passengers and 34.000 crew members), according to Eduardo Manzanares head of the Austral Port Company which manages the local port.
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Monday, October 23rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
“Terminator Arnold” attacks Chilean fresh fruit
California's governor race has given a dramatic turn with incumbent Arnold Schwarzenegger calling to “buy only Californian” and rejecting farm produce from other countries, among which Chile, a heavy exporter of fresh fruit to United States.
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Sunday, October 22nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Measures to improve Falklands' camp economy
The Falkland Islands government announced its commitment to improve agricultural productivity and farm incomes by moving from short term financial assistance to long term measures and solutions.
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Sunday, October 22nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
South American pipe dream ?a joke'
The former prime minister of Spain, Felipe González, said that South America's natural gas pipeline “is a joke” and that “it will never be carried out.”
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Sunday, October 22nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Ortega eyes return to Nicaraguan presidency
Daniel Ortega may become Nicaragua's president again. And the United States is, once more, out to stop him.
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Sunday, October 22nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
WWF in Chile debates commercial whaling
Just moments before the start of a World Wildlife Fund conference on whale conservation, held in southern Chile's Region X, breaking news from Iceland caused a big splash: the Nordic country announced it will resume commercial whaling.
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Sunday, October 22nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Panama OKs Canal Project
Voters overwhelmingly approved the largest modernization plan in the 92-year history of the Panama Canal on Sunday, backing a multi-billion dollar expansion that will allow the world's largest ships to squeeze through the shortcut between the seas.
