Mercosur

• Tuesday, March 30th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Australia to sell toothfish seized onboard Maya V

  The Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) is to sell the catch of Patagonian toothfish seized from the Uruguayan flagged longliner Maya V allegedly caught fishing illegally in the country's waters.

• Tuesday, March 30th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Majority of Maya V crew may be free this week

  It is too early to know when the Uruguayan crew of the Maya V will return home, the Uruguayan Consulate said yesterday, but hopefully for the majority matters will be resolved this week.

• Monday, March 29th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Mediterranean flies in Chilean fruit.

  The Chilean Agriculture and Livestock (sanitary) Service confirmed the intensification of monitoring and controls following the discovery of several Mediterranean flies, (ceratitis capitata) in the urban area of Calle Larga in the country's Fifth region.

• Monday, March 29th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Credit assistance for Argentina.

  Argentina will be signing in the coming months a five years 5 billion US dollars loan with the Interamerian Development Bank, IDB and is negotiating a similar credit with the World Bank, according to Argentine Economy Ministry sources in Peru.

• Monday, March 29th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Ms. Krueger and the Argentine collapse.

  The Argentine meltdown is the most obvious and recent example of how economic policies failures can be catastrophic said International Monetary Fund's Acting Managing Director Anne Krueger, who estimated that the 2001 crisis could have been softened by bolder reforms in the nineties.

• Monday, March 29th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Deadly cyclone sweeps south of Brazil.

  At least two people are reported dead, five disappeared and hundreds are homeless after a deadly cyclone with winds of up to 150 kilometres per hour swept the southern coast of Brazil just north of Uruguay mid night last Saturday.

• Monday, March 29th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Kirchner in collision course with ruling party.

  Argentine president Nestor Kirchner ignored the new authorities of the powerful ruling Peronist Party elected over the week end and passed the word on to his faithful that he will only stand by a really “renovated” political organization.

• Monday, March 29th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Biggest Latinamerican air show opens in Santiago.

  This Monday Chilean president Ricardo Lagos will be opening the XIII edition of the International Air and Space Fair, FIDAE, which has attracted over 100 aircrafts presented by 250 exhibitors from 30 different countries.

• Sunday, March 28th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Concern with political consequences of energy crisis.

  Argentine diplomacy is concerned with the political consequences of the current energy crisis for regional integration and ideological identification.

• Sunday, March 28th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Kirchner man chairs Peronist Party.

  Argentine president Nestor Kirchner managed to impose his man as the ruling Peronist Party secretary general in spite of an internal crisis following a confrontation with some of the most powerful Peronist governors of the country.