Articles from Latin Trade (May 1, 2004)

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Title	Author	Type	Words
A beautiful mouse.	Ramos, Carlos	Brief Article	215
A Brazilian judge ordered the arrest of two Petrobras executives in March claiming that they failed to comply with a court ruling in favor of start-up oil firm Maritima Petroleo e Engenharia, which built drilling rigs for the state-owned oil company.		Brief Article	76
AES Gener.		Brief Article	44
Altos Hornos de Mexico (Ahmsa).		Brief Article	70
America Movil.		Brief Article	39
An Argentine judge ruled that the government does not own US$11.5 million held by former state-run postal service in New York accounts because they are not national assets.		Brief Article	80
Argentina paid the International Monetary Fund (IMF) US$3.1 billion to avoid falling into default with the multilateral lender.		Brief Article	45
Ballot box.		Brief Article	99
Banco Mercantil del Norte (Banorte).		Brief Article	29
Bancolombia.		Brief Article	40
Battling up the corporate ladder.	Alende, Andres Hernandez	Book Review	761
Best corporate citizens 2004: Latin America companies set the standard for corporate citizenship in the region.	Guevara, Michelle	Interview	2904
Big brew.		Brief Article	100
Big company watch: Latin American sales in US$ millions as of Dec. 31, 2003.		Brief Article	138
Bloc heads: where to put the home of the world's biggest trade area? Why, come right this way.	Reveron, Derek		680
Buying time.		Brief Article	168
Cattle call.	Belone, Aisha	Brief Article	212
Cencosud, a Chilean retailer, will buy the Disco supermarket chain in Argentina from Dutch retailer Royal Ahold for US$315 million.		Brief Article	38
Colombia Telecomunicaciones, the state-owned telecommunications company, paid US$80 million to Canada's Nortel Networks to settle a legal battle over joint-venture contracts between the two companies.		Brief Article	42
Companhia Vale Do Rio Doce (CVRD), a Brazilian iron ore producer, signed the largest contract in its history to supply 20 million tons of iron ore annually until 2009 to European steel company Arcelor.		Brief Article	59
Corporate watch.	Corssy, Mauricio Hurtado	Letter to the Editor	115
Cost-saving IT solutions: a new wave of profit for Latin American business.		Advertisement	1081
Cruising South.	Bernhardson, Wayne		346
DFW international cargo figures surge ahead: strong growth continues from Asian and European markets.			518
Doe Run.		Brief Article	43
Drink to that.	Molina, Genaro	Letter to the Editor	84
Embratel.		Brief Article	31
Empty skies.		Brief Article	51
Events.		Calendar	769
Fertile markets.	Guevara, Michelle	Brief Article	235
Finger wagging.	Belone, Aisha	Brief Article	218
Goooool! A soccer tournament in Brazil's Amazon is a win for a community and a business.	Franklin, Jonathan		754
Growth leads to investment in the Caribbean.			537
Grupo TPI, a publishing unit of Spain's Telefonica, bought a 40% stake in Chile's Impresora y Comercial Publiguias for US$65.6 million.		Brief Article	34
Home run.	Belone, Aisha	Brief Article	209
How high? It's getting harder, and more expensive, to sell to the world's biggest consumer.	Pilarte, Doralisa		2312
In and out.	Brown, Greg	Brief Article	316
ING.		Brief Article	40
Key indicators.		Illustration	594
Lots of gold, no rush: a multi-billion dollar gold mine in Venezuela sits and waits for someone, anyone, to dig it up.	Ceaser, Mike		1201
Mexico and Fonatur: celebrating 30 years of success in tourism investment.		Advertisement	1317
Name game.	Sasso, Luciana G.S.	Letter to the Editor	80
Nemak, a subsidiary of Mexican conglomerate Alfa, will supply aluminum parts to global auto manufacturer DaimlerChrysler, which will use the material to build engines for its automobiles beginning 2006.		Brief Article	41
New investment creates success in Barbados.		Advertisement	702
Panama and Singapore began talks to establish a and expect negotiations to wrap up by the end of 2004.		Brief Article	46
Panama Canal.		Brief Article	154
Pemex, Mexico's state-owned oil company, awarded a US$100 million contract to Global Offshore Mexico, a subsidiary of U.S. pipeline construction company Global Industries, to install 53 kilometers of pipeline in the Cantarell oil field.		Brief Article	59
Petrobras, Brazil's state-owned off company, and White Martins, a Brazilian subsidiary of U.S. industrial gas company Praxair, spent an initial US$38 million to start up a joint venture that will distribute liquefied natural gas.		Brief Article	57
Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA).		Brief Article	40
Pfizer, a U.S. pharmaceutical company, filed a lawsuit against 16 Colombian drug manufacturers for reproducing a generic version of Viagra using the same color and shape of the anti-impotence medication.		Brief Article	64
Privatizations.		Table	1075
Rayovac Corporation, a U.S. consumer products company.		Brief Article	30
Repsol YPF.		Brief Article	46
Royal Ahold, a Dutch retailer, sold its Brazilian chain Bompreco to U.S. retailer Wal-Mart, and sold its Brazilian credit card operation Hipercard to local bank Unibanco.		Brief Article	49
Scania, Brasil, a subsidiary of Swedish heavy truck manufacturer Scania, will build 200 engines for the United States' John Deere's Brazilian units.		Brief Article	37
Sidelined: Fox took office promising reform for a country badly in need of a change. Then, nothing happened.	Quinones, Sam		2368
South Korea approved the creation of a with Chile, a deal that gives the Asian nation its first bilateral trade agreement after months of deliberation.		Brief Article	43
Telefonos de Mexico (TELMEX), a Mexican telephone company, completed the acquisition of the assets of United States' AT&T Latin America.		Brief Article	35
The Bentonville menace: Wal-Mart is changing the face of Latin America labor and life--and it ain't pretty.	Epstein, Jack		707
The good life.		Brief Article	94
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) gave US$141 million to Uruguay as part of a standby agreement based on the country's improving financial market conditions and economic indicators.		Brief Article	48
The road to broadband: Mexico's cable TV providers want to sell high-speed Internet. So does Carlos Slim.	Cauley, Margaret		956
The U.S. Department of Commerce will investigate Brazilian shrimp exporters Netuno, Cida and NortePesca for dumping practices in the United States.		Brief Article	95
Titles of interest.		Book Review	155
Track record: private companies in Brazil take the lead in railroad revitalization.	Cossolino, Silmara		689
Transantiago.		Brief Article	126
Transredes, Bolivia's largest oil and gas pipeline company.		Brief Article	34
Travel hot tips.		Brief Article	279
Trinidad and Tobago is the premier candidate to host the FTAA Secretariat.			1188
Unefon, a Mexican wireless operator, received a US$58.5 million loan from Mexican banks Banco Inbursa and Baneo Azteca to pay part of its $120 million debt.		Brief Article	45
Who's choice?	Castro, Guido	Letter to the Editor	84
Wireless warriors.		Brief Article	98
Your number's up.		Brief Article	243