Mercosur

• Thursday, October 14th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Chile targets Asian-Pacific tourists

  Attracting tourists from Asia and the Pacific is the great challenge for the Chilean tourism industry”, said Chilean Economy Minister Jorge Rodríguez Grossi who is acting host for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, APEC, tourism ministers summit currently taking place in Punta Arenas.

• Thursday, October 14th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Advises from WTO Secretary General

  “APEC summit in Punta Arenas is a major event which has concentrated representatives from the two most tourism dynamic areas in the world, Asia and Latinamerica”, said Francesco Frangialli, Secretary General of the World Tourism Organization, WTO which has 144 country members, seven territories and over 300 private affiliates.

• Thursday, October 14th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguayan presidential race moves to Buenos Aires.

  The two leading candidates for the coming presidential election in Uruguay next October 31 will be travelling to Buenos Aires to campaign among the many Uruguayans living in Argentina.

• Wednesday, October 13th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Honduras declared free of land mines.

  The Assistance Program for Removing Mines in Central America, PADCA, finished last Friday clearing Honduran territory from dangerous war devices left over from the eighties in the midst of the Cold War.

• Wednesday, October 13th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Preventing “bloodbath” in Rio's shanty towns.

  Following a public warning from Amnesty International Rio de Janeiro police occupied two favelas, (shanty towns) fearing fighting between rival drug gangs could escalate into “a bloodbath”.

• Wednesday, October 13th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Chile-Argentina relation is “more than gas or an article”

  Chilean President Ricardo Lagos strongly stated that relations with Argentina involve “more than gas and more than a newspaper column” and they “are the exact level where they must be”.

• Wednesday, October 13th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  APEC tourism summit in Punta Arenas.

  Delegations from eighteen Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, APEC, members plus representatives from four world tourism organizations will be participating this week in the most important ever tourism summit to be held in Punta Arenas.

• Wednesday, October 13th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Kirchner's administration: “the most hostile since Galtieri”

  Argentine media reacted this week to the editorial of the latest “Falkland Islands Newsletter” edition which describes the current President Kirchner government ”as the most hostile since (General) Galtieri”.

• Tuesday, October 12th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Petrobras targets Patagonia and offshore Mar del Plata

  Following the discovery of two new hydrocarbons areas in the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz, Brazilian government oil company Petrobras announced plans to invest 1,4 billion US dollars from now until 2007.

• Tuesday, October 12th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Saudi Arabia and Kuwait promise more oil

  “The problem is not OPEC, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, and production but international concern resulting from political factors”, said Saudi Arabia's Oil minister Sheik Ali al-Naimi during an energy conference this weekend in Dubai.