Mercosur

• Monday, May 20th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Try again Jimmy

  US President George Bush is expected this week to adopt a harder line towards Cuba leaving no doubts as to where his administration stands following the bridge-building historic visit of former president Jimmy Carter, who during a speech in Havana, called for more civil liberties in the island but also the lifting of the forty years US trade and communications embargo.

• Wednesday, May 15th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  US farm bill condemned

  The Cairns Group, Mercosur and other Latinamerican countries highly dependent on agricultural commodities condemned United States for a bill that will hand out 190 billion US dollars to US farmers during the next ten years.

• Wednesday, May 15th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Madrid Summit

  The Latinamerican-European Union summit to be held this week in Madrid, a step more towards the attainment of a “strategic association agreement” between the two blocks, is expected to announce the conclusion of talks for a free trade agreement with Chile and the updating of a similar successful agreement with Mexico.

• Tuesday, May 14th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Joint Mercosur-France air exercises

  French built Mirage fighter bombers from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and France participated during a week in the Southern Cross joint air co-ordination exercises in Southern Brazil.

• Tuesday, May 14th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  587,000 Argentine live overseas

  According to a survey from the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 587,000 Argentines reside permanently overseas. Of this number, 220,845 are officially registered in Argentine consulates, while the rest, 366,000 not registered, is an estimate of the different consular offices.

• Tuesday, May 14th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Agro Uruguay

  Record low flock / Uruguayan beef makes a come back

• Tuesday, May 14th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Three reasons - “Social” credit for Argentina

  Three reasons / “Social” credit for Argentina

• Tuesday, May 14th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Mexico closer to Mercosur

  México will propose Mercosur a free trade agreement in the coming months according to Mexican Trade Representative Fernando de Mateo.

• Monday, May 13th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay announces measures to counter effects of Argentine crisis

  Uruguayan President Jorge Batlle yesterday night announced a series of austerity measures to counter the repercussions of the Argentine economic crisis, which he said he considered to be the “most ferocious financial attack” in Uruguayan history.

• Saturday, May 11th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine: 18 million below poverty line

  Half of the Argentine population of 36 million live below the poverty line according to the latest census figures, reported Juan Carlos Del Bello head of the National Census and Statistic Institute, INDEC.