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  • Saturday, April 13th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

    Carmona sworn in, vows to restore Venezuelan democracy

    Vowing to restore Venezuelan democracy, business leader Pedro Carmona was sworn in Friday as the nation's interim president following the ouster of Hugo Chavez.

  • Friday, April 12th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

    Venezuela's Chavez Resigns Under Military Pressure.

    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez resigned on Friday after senior military officers insisted the flamboyant ex-paratrooper leave office, blaming him for violence against a huge anti-Chavez protest in which at least 10 people were killed.

  • Wednesday, April 10th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

    US-Uruguay kick-off

    Uruguayan and United States trade officials signed this week in Montevideo the starting agreement for trade and investment promotion that eventually could lead to a full free trade agreement between both countries.

  • Tuesday, April 9th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

    IMF and Argentina closer

    Argentina and the IMF delegation currently in Buenos Aires agreed to find a monitoring and control mechanism to ensure that the targets of the “federal fiscal” pact and honored and provincial deficits are effectively reduced.

  • Tuesday, April 9th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

    Contingency loan for Brazil

    The International Monetary Fund approved a 15 billion US dollars additional contingency loan for Brazil, following the satisfactory perfomance of the Brazilian economy, according to a release from the multilateral organization.

  • Monday, April 8th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

    US-Chile trade talks

    United States and Chile held this week in Santiago the eleventh round of talks in the framework of a future free trade agreement between both countries.

  • Thursday, April 4th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

    Cavallo remains under arrest.

    Argentina's former Minister of Economy Domingo Cavallo remains under arrest after Judge Julio Speroni rejected an appeal by his lawyers. Mr. Cavallo was put under arrest last Wednesday in connection with a probe into illegal arms sales during the early nineties under the Carlos Menem administration when he occupied two different cabinet posts, Foreign Affairs and Economy.

  • Wednesday, April 3rd 2002 - 21:00 UTC

    Other options, please

    Uruguayan president Jorge Batlle in an official visit to Brazil warned that “times have changed” and this has forced Uruguay to look for other alternatives to Mercosur.

  • Tuesday, April 2nd 2002 - 21:00 UTC

    Still not good enough

    Faced with a new IMF delegation that insists on fiscal and foreign exchange discipline, the Argentine government imposed export duties, ranging between 10 and 20%, on agricultural commodities exports.

  • Monday, April 1st 2002 - 21:00 UTC

    Apathy and Lula lead Brazilian poll

    Three presidential hopefuls from the ruling Brazilian coalition for the October election are running a tight race but only one of them could in the second round confront Luiz Igancio Lula da Silva, the opposition candidate from the Socialist Workers Party who is leading in the polls with 25,9%, according to one of the latest polls released and published in the Brazilian media.