MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for June 8th 2010
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Tuesday, June 8th 2010 - 00:56 UTC
Most of Pinochet’s 21m USD fortune cannot be legitimately accounted for
A Universidad de Chile investigation has found that of the 21 million US dollars fortune that former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet amassed during his lifetime, 19 million cannot be legitimately accounted for.
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Tuesday, June 8th 2010 - 00:50 UTC
Uruguay’s total meat exports in five months reach 613 million USD
The value of Uruguay’s meat exports in the first five months of 2010 totalled 613million US dollars which represent a 33% increase over the same period a year ago, according to the latest data from the National Meats Institute, Inac.Of those 631 million USD, 81% correspond to beef and 5% to lamb and mutton.
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Tuesday, June 8th 2010 - 00:43 UTC
Forum on how to recover funds stolen by dictators and corrupt regimes
United Nations, the World Bank and Switzerland are organizing a two-day international conference in Paris to try and associate global financial centres in helping recover assets taken and hidden by dictators and other leaders of corrupt regimes.
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Tuesday, June 8th 2010 - 00:35 UTC
“There’s not such thing as a Mercosur parliament”, says Uruguayan lawmaker
There’s no such thing as a Mercosur parliament or Parlasur, simple because it does not comply with the role of a legislative, said Uruguayan Lower House member Jorge Orrico from the ruling coalition.
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Tuesday, June 8th 2010 - 00:29 UTC
Chavez announces purchase of second batch of Chinese K-8 military planes
Venezuela will spend 82 million US dollars on a second batch of Chinese K-8 military training aircraft, President Hugo Chavez announced on Sunday. The Chavez regime has ordered 18 of the light attack and training planes from China and last March received the first six.
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Tuesday, June 8th 2010 - 00:27 UTC
Argentine top magistrate cautions pickets blocking bridge leading to Uruguay
Argentina’s Supreme Court president Ricardo Lorenzetti said that the blockade by Argentine pickets impeding, since 2006 crossing to neighbouring Uruguay, to protest the construction of a pulp mill, is “unsustainable”.
