Mercosur

• Sunday, August 31st 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  ARA Libertad visits Portsmouth.

  The Argentine Navy sail training frigate last week ARA Libertad paid an informal visit to Portsmouth, Britain, and is now expected in Zeebrugge, Belgium.

• Saturday, August 30th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Chile, Argentina urges rich countries to cut greenhouse emissions

  Argentina and Chile on Friday agreed to jointly study climatic changes here in the southern tip of South America and urged the developed countries to reduce their emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases.

• Friday, August 29th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazil in recession.

  The Brazilian economy has technically fallen into recession alter two consecutive quarters of negative growth according to the latest release from the Brazilian Geography and Statistics Institute, IBGE.

• Friday, August 29th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina and IMF closer to an agreement

  With the return to Buenos Aires this Thursday of the IMF permanent representative in Argentina John Dodsworth and the advance in Congress of legislation requested by the multilateral credit organization, both sides seem closer to reaching a medium term agreement.

• Thursday, August 28th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Nobel Prize praises President Lula da Silva

  The business environment in Brazil experienced an “enormous advance” since the beginning of the current Luis Inacio Lula da Silva administration said 2001 Economics Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz.

• Thursday, August 28th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Carrasco Airport in private hands

  The management of Uruguay's main international airport, Carrasco, will be in private hands for the next thirty years following this Wednesday public tender in Montevideo's Stock Exchange.

• Thursday, August 28th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Soaring US budget deficit

  United States Congressional Budget Office, CBO, estimated this week the US budget deficit will reach a record 480 billion US dollars in 2004.

• Thursday, August 28th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  US suggestions for Mr. Kirchner

  Untied States has suggested to Argentine president Nestor Kirchner, who provided a warm welcome to Fidel Castro last May and more recently to Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, that his administration reconsider the country's relative uncritical position towards Cuba.

• Thursday, August 28th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Two out of five Latinamericans live in poverty

  Some 220 million Latinamericans that is two out of five, in 2002 lived in poverty of which 95 million live miserably, according to the latest report from the United Nations Economic Commission for Latinamerica and the Caribbean, Cepal.

• Wednesday, August 27th 2003 - 21:00 UTC

  Chile and Argentina Joint Ozone Program

  Chile and Argentina will be launching a joint scientific research program in Patagonia to monitor the deterioration of the ozone layer. The event will take place during Chilean president Ricardo Lagos official state visit to Argentina beginning this Thursday.