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Mercosur

  • Monday, February 11th 2002 - 20:00 UTC

    Armed Forces changing role

    Mercosur Armed Forces are quietly but consistently undergoing a modernization process involving objectives, capability and strategy

  • Wednesday, February 6th 2002 - 20:00 UTC

    IMF: “world prospects improving”

    International Monetary Fund Managing Director participating in the World Economic Forum in New York, forecasted recovery is underway for the global economy.

  • Wednesday, February 6th 2002 - 20:00 UTC

    Chile and the European Union closer

    Chile and the European Union are quickly advancing to a free trade agreement that could be officially signed next May in Madrid during the second Euro-American summit, according to Mr. Osvaldo Rosales Director of International Trade Relations in the Chilean Foreign Affairs Ministry.

  • Sunday, February 3rd 2002 - 20:00 UTC

    Argentina thrown into fresh chaos

    Argentina was thrown into fresh chaos on Friday when its supreme court declared emergency financial controls to be unconstitutional, raising the prospect that the country's banks will collapse.

  • Sunday, February 3rd 2002 - 20:00 UTC

    Long live the peso!

    After several long weeks of international contacts and private deliberations with banks and multilateral organizations, the current Argentine administration believes the crucial moment to thrust forward an economic program that should get the stagnant economy rolling again, has come.

  • Sunday, January 27th 2002 - 20:00 UTC

    Full support for President Duhalde.

    Mercosur and associate members presidents will be holding an out of agenda summit next February 18th. in Buenos Aires to express full support to the Argentine president Duhalde administration.

  • Saturday, January 26th 2002 - 20:00 UTC

    Thousands in Argentine pots and pans protest. Rain, tear gas and rubber bullets.

    Thousands of Argentines from all over Buenos Aires converged on the city's famous central square, the Plaza de Mayo, late Friday night as part of a massive national protest against the government and the penal financial restrictions imposed in recent weeks. But a combination of torrential rain and violent police reaction using tear gas and rubber bullets just after midnight caused many of the demonstrators to disperse. Several protestors and police were injured and stretchered into ambulances. Some demonstrators were arrested and forced to lie down on the wet roads.

  • Wednesday, January 23rd 2002 - 20:00 UTC

    Argentina Update. Demonstrations by website.

  • Tuesday, January 22nd 2002 - 20:00 UTC

    Recovery in second half of 2002

    “Modestly optimistic” projections indicate the Argentine economy will experience a 3,5% contraction in 2002, according to the annual report from the United Nations Economic Agency for Latinamerica, Cepal.

  • Tuesday, January 22nd 2002 - 20:00 UTC

    Giant blackout in Brazil