Mercosur

• Tuesday, July 13th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Lula is Mercosur's “main leader”.

  Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva “is Mercosur's main leader”, said Argentine former president Eduardo Duhalde who currently is president of Mercosur's Council of Permanent Representatives.

• Tuesday, July 13th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Strong Chilean investment overseas.

  Chilean investments overseas in the first half of 2004 reached the 1998 half year mark considered one of the country's record totaling 997 million US dollars, 238% increase over 2003.

• Tuesday, July 13th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Plastic surgery and tango lessons in Buenos Aires.

  A United States company is offering tourist packages in Argentina that combine plastic surgery with leisure activities such as a seven-day excursion that includes silicone breast implants and tango, reported the Buenos Aires press last Sunday.

• Tuesday, July 13th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  July holidays boom in Argentina.

  An estimated 7,5 million Argentines are taking advantage of the mid term school holidays to travel to different parts of the country with their families.

• Tuesday, July 13th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Breaking News.

  Headlines:
  Kelp processing plant in Porvernir; EU has 419 reported cases of mad cow; Aid for stranded Chilean crewmembers.

• Tuesday, July 13th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Menem cleared of link with terrorist attack.

  A Swiss judge investigating bank accounts claimed to belong to former Argentine President Carlos Menem said she found nothing to support allegations that he was involved in a bribe scandal to cover up the perpetrators of a 1994 terrorist bombing in Buenos Aires.

• Monday, July 12th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Lan Chile obsessed with Argentine market.

  “It seems they are afraid of us”, said this weekend Lan Chile's vicepresident Enrique Cueto in direct reference to Aerolíneas Argentina that supposedly so far has been successful in impeding the Chilean flag carrier from having access to the lucrative Argentine air market.

• Sunday, July 11th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Falsification of notice for fishery permits discovered.

  The perspicacity to obtain fishery permits in Argentine waters has reached unfathomable limits.

• Sunday, July 11th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Magallanes “non official relations” with the Falkland Islands.

  Punta Arenas main daily La Prensa Austral editorialized this weekend about Governor Howard Pearce's recent visit to the city when he highlighted the importance of Magallanes Region for Falkland Islands trade and its contribution to the quality of life of Islanders.

• Friday, July 9th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Lloyds Bank leaving Argentina.

  Lloyds Bank Argentina belonging to the Lloyds TSB group is leaving Argentina, the ninth foreign financial institution to abandon the country since the 2001 banking crisis, reports the Argentine press.