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• Monday, March 14th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Mexican among the world's four richest men

  A Mexican figures among the four richest men in the world according to the latest edition of the annual United States Forbes magazine ranking.

• Monday, March 14th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina and Chile wish for gas supply normalization.

  Argentina and Chile agreed Monday to continue strengthening their bilateral “strategic alliance” and overcome recent “trade differences” but could only politely hope for a quick normalization of natural gas supplies.

• Monday, March 14th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine Coast Guard “targets” fine paying trawlers

  Galician fishing captains in the South Atlantic are shocked with the recent arrest by an Argentine Coast Guard vessel of the Spanish flagged trawler “Jose Antonio Nores” which was caught supposedly poaching late February in Argentine waters, reports El Faro from Vigo.

• Sunday, March 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina deports German fugitive.

  Argentina has deported a former Nazi to Chile, where he is wanted on charges of sexually abusing children after two days to be arrested in Buenos Aires.

• Sunday, March 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Sol won't mimic Shell, Esso hikes in Argentina.

  State-run Uruguayan oil company Sol Petroleo on Saturday rolled back the price hikes it had imposed on fuel sold in Argentina, following Shell and Esso's example, a few hours earlier.

• Saturday, March 12th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Venezuela and Iran seal cooperation agreement

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and visiting Iranian president Mohammed Khatami stated Friday they “will stand together and strongly against any United States aggression”.

• Saturday, March 12th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  K: ?worst investment' unwelcome

  During the ceremony the president read from a report by US business watchdog Multinacional Monitor, which releases an annual ranking of the “worst corporations in the world” that takes into consideration “fraud, price abuses, pollution and poisoning cases.”

• Saturday, March 12th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Spain recalls Atocha

  Spain commemorated the first anniversary of the Madrid train bombings yesterday with tears, church bells and silent tributes to the 191 people who died in al Qaeda's worst attack in Europe.

• Friday, March 11th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazil legalizes GM seeds.

  In a triumph for United States based biotechnology firm Monsanto Co., Brazil's lower house of Congress endorsed the creation of a framework to legalize biotech seed sales in Latin America's largest country.

• Friday, March 11th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Boycott Shell's raising fuel prices, says Kirchner.

  Amid growing inflation fears Argentine President Nestor Kirchner called for “a national boycott” against Royal Dutch/Shell Group for raising fuel prices.
  Thursday's statement was President Kirchner's second verbal attack on the British-Dutch oil company in two days.