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LATIN AMERICA - Saturday
19
February 2005
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Argentine president appoints new
air force commander
Argentine President Nestor
Kirchner appointed Friday
brigadier general Eduardo
Schiaffino, as commander of the
air force, in lieu of Carlos
Rohde.
The president ordered a purge of
the air force following the
scandal generated at Madrid,
Spain, for the confiscation of
60 kilos of cocaine, sent in
briefcases that had labels
reading "Argentine Embassy in
Spain" aboard a flight coming
from Buenos Aires.
According to authorities in the
Presidency, Kirchner and Defense
Minister Jose Pampuro have
examined the new appointments
and sackings in the air force.
The president decided Thursday
to fire Air Force Commander,
brigadier General Carlos Rohde,
and 11 other brigadier generals
of this armed branch in relation
to the drug-trafficking case.
Kirchner ordered to close the
operations of the National
Aeronautical Police (PAN), which
is in charge of combat against
smuggling and drug trafficking
in airports. PAN is part of the
Argentine air force.
Among those fired in relation to
the scandal is former PAN
director, brigadier general
Miguel Giaigischia, who was
replaced by Defense Secretary
Jaime Garreta.
Latin American Teachers Plead
for Peace, Oppose Illiteracy
Delegates attending the 22nd
Meeting of Education Ministers
of the Andres Bello Pact (CAB)
committed themselves on Friday
to fight for peace and effective
actions against illiteracy.
During the two-day meeting's
closing ceremony, a final
statement calling countries to
achieve a nine-grade basic
education of quality was
approved.
Delegates also agreed to foster
a defense of cultural values of
Ibero American peoples and
promote science and technology
development and consolidate the
ruling nature of the Meeting of
Education Ministers (REMECAB).
They also ratified a
programmatic framework approved
in Margarita, Venezuela, two
years ago, seeking a
strengthened cultural space to
promote integration processes
with social justice and respect
for every country's identity.
Next REMECAB will be held in
Asuncion, Paraguay, late 2006,
with La Paz, Bolivia, as an
alternative venue, it was agreed
here.
A special meeting will be held
in Havana in October in order to
follow up several agreements
reached during this meeting.
CAB groups Bolivia, Chile,
Colombia, Ecuador, Spain,
Panama, Paraguay, Peru,
Venezuela and Cuba.
It bears the name of a main
Latin American humanist,
intellectual, Venezuelan Andres
Bello (1781-1865).
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Argentine Debt Above 80
Percent of Domestic
Acceptance
The domestic
creditors´ level of
acceptance to the defaulted
Argentine debt since 2001
reached 82 percent, asserted
Stock Brokerage President
Luis Corsiglia on Friday.
In statements to press, Luis
Corsiglia said 66,000 credit
transfers had been made
until now.
"We have made a 20.8 USD
exchange that accounts for
82 percent of what can be
traded in Argentina" from
the defaulted debt (81.8
billion dollars).
Corsiglia said nearly 2.8
billion dollars were yet to
be exchanged, with another
800 millions in the next
days.
Due to close February 25,
the debt renegotiation at
the international level
could have set higher than
40 percent, he stressed.
The stock brokerage
president noted the coming
days would be intense, as
the largest international
investment funds of the
operation considered the
most complex of the world
financing history will
start.
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