MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for April 5th 2010
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Monday, April 5th 2010 - 23:57 UTC
Oil prices reach an 18-month high following on US encouraging data
Oil prices have reached an 18-month high as analysts predict the recovery of the US economy and a rising demand for fuel. Crude oil for May delivery hit a high of 85.89 USD a barrel at one point in New York trading - the dearest since the peak of the financial crisis in October 2008.
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Monday, April 5th 2010 - 23:52 UTC
Bolivia asked Putin for Moscow to return “strongly” to Latinamerica
Bolivian President Evo Morales revealed that he asked Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to have Moscow return “strongly” to Latin America in the meeting that the pair held in Caracas last Friday.
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Monday, April 5th 2010 - 23:49 UTC
Bolivian Government and opposition celebrate Sunday’s provincial voting
Bolivian president Evo Morales claimed victory in the regional elections of this Sunday, because according to the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS), ‘now he controls six of the nine governors and three mayors of the ten largest in the country“.
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Monday, April 5th 2010 - 23:23 UTC
Fariñas reply to Raul Castro: determined to continue “fasting until death”
Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas accepted as a challenge the warning launched on Sunday by president Raul Castro that Havana will not be “blackmailed or yield” to “hunger strikers” and promised that now “more than ever” he was determined “to continue fasting until death”.
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Monday, April 5th 2010 - 12:12 UTC
Argentina: Positive assessment of trade mission to China
The head of the Argentine Fisheries Subsecretariat, Norberto Yauhar, assures that the assessment of his recent trip to China was very positive, and that “the objective of the trade mission was reached and, in many cases, surpassed expectations.”
