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Stories for January 2007

• Wednesday, January 10th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Chavez promises six years of “Socialism or death”

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was sworn in for another six years on Wednesday, promising to press ahead with a sweeping socialist agenda: “Fatherland. Socialism or death — I swear it” said Chavez, holding his right hand in the air as he invoked Cuban leader Fidel Castro's famous call to arms.

• Wednesday, January 10th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Latam trade surplus with US tops 100 billion US dollars

  Latinamerica and the Caribbean trade surplus with the United States in November dropped 11.5% in November to just over 7 billion US dollars according to the US Department of Commerce.

• Wednesday, January 10th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  China's trade soaring: 969 billion exports last year

  China's trade surplus in 2006 reached a mind bogging 177.5 billion US dollars compared to 102 billion in 2005, reported Wednesday the Chinese news agency Xinhua.

• Wednesday, January 10th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Chile's largest meat producer caught selling rotten goods

  Agrosuper, Chile's largest meat producer could face serious fines or a shutdown of its factories by health authorities after workers of its Huechuraba plant denounced the sale of decomposing meat.

• Wednesday, January 10th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Brazil manufactures record number of automobiles

  Brazil manufactured a record number of automobiles last year, 2.61 million, up 3.1% over 2005, according to a release Wednesday in Sao Paulo from the Association of Automobile manufacturers, Anfavea.

• Wednesday, January 10th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Car sales in Chile soaring and clogging Santiago

  A record 711.000 cars were sold in Chile's Metropolitan Region in 2006, up 7.6% more vehicles than last year.

• Wednesday, January 10th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Pickets playing cat and mouse with Buenos Aires ferry terminal

  Officials from the Buenos Aires-Uruguay ferry shuttle company renewed their call for confidence among passengers following an informal “intelligence gathering” operation by picketers who are protesting the construction of a pulp mill in Uruguay and have promised “disruptions” this coming Friday.

• Wednesday, January 10th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Reborn Ortega takes office praised by Chavez and Bush

  Former Marxist guerrilla and United States Cold War enemy Daniel Ortega was sworn in as Nicaraguan president on Wednesday 16 years after voters tired of a civil war with Contra rebels threw him out of office.

• Tuesday, January 9th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentine reserves yield a record of nearly 1.4 billion dollars in 2006

  

  Argentina's Central Bank in 2006 obtained nearly 1.4 billion dollars out of investing its foreign currency reserves at a yearly yield of 5.7 percent – the highest since a crippling five-year recession ended in 2002 — and close to the 1.47 billion dollars the country reportedly spent last year in subsidies to keep inflation under two digits.

• Tuesday, January 9th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Chavez announces nationalization of oil and telecoms

  

  President Hugo Chavez announced plans on Monday to nationalize Venezuela's electrical and telecommunications companies, pledging to create a socialist state in the spirit of the Bolivarian revolution.