MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for November 2nd 2007
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Friday, November 2nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Haiti Sri Lankan UN troops repatriated for sexual abuse
The United Nations announced Friday that it will repatriate more than 100 Sri Lankan peacekeepers serving with the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti on disciplinary grounds.
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Friday, November 2nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Bachelet sees poverty as the main threat to regional democracy
Chile's Michelle Bachelet who will be hosting the Ibero-American summit next week defended the legitimacy of Latinamerican governments, particularly Venezuela, and insisted that the prevailing consensus among leaders is that poverty represents the main threat for the region.
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Friday, November 2nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Bat-transmitted rabies in Uruguay - Brazil border
Uruguay has ordered the vaccination of 90.000 livestock cattle in the border area with Brazil following an outbreak of bat-transmitted paralytic rabies that killed thirty head of cattle. Sanitary authorities have asked farmers and residents to help locate bat caves on both sides of the open frontier.
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Friday, November 2nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Argentina's incoming government pending issues on debt front
Argentina, Latin America's third largest economy is on track to grow more than 8% for the fifth straight year, rivaling Asian expansion rates. But there are some pending issues on the debt front.
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Friday, November 2nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Uruguay cattle supplies tight and beef exports down
Uruguay's meat exports in the first nine months of this year totaled 368.662 tons equivalent to 816 million US dollars, compared to 429.376 tons and 919 million US dollars in the same period a year ago, according to the latest release from the country's National Meat Institute of Uruguay (INAC).
