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G-50 Timeline
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The G-50 celebrates a decade of existence with its Tenth Annual Meeting. An exceptional group of featured commentators help celebrate this historic occasion, including Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Stanley Fischer, Thomas Friedman, Enrique Krauze, Roger Noriega, George Soros, Lawrence Summers, Mario Vargas Llosa and Robert Zoellick, among others.
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A month long strike in January in protest against President Hugo Chávez cripples the Venezuelan economy and leads to the government firing 18,000 workers of the national oil company who had participated in the strike.
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Nestor Kirchner - who received only 22 percent of the popular vote in the first round of balloting - becomes President of Argentina in May, after former President Carlos Menem drops out of the race.
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The Presidents of the six full and associate member countries of Mercosur pledge in June to make Mercosur a viable common market by 2006.
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Brazil's president Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva holds an emergency meeting with leaders of the Movimento Sem Terra (MST) in July after they launched a fresh wave of occupations and blockades to try and force the government to adhere to its election promises of land reform. MST leaders presented the president with a series of demands, including settling more than a million landless people on land by the end of 2006.
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A truth and reconciliation committee announces in August that close to 70,000 people died in Peru's 20- year war against Shining Path guerillas.
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Brazilian United Nations' envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello is killed in August along with seventeen other people in a truck bombing at UN headquarters in Iraq.
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The United States signs legislation to implement a Free Trade Agreement with Chile in September.
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The World Trade Organization Summit in Cancun, Mexico, falls apart in September after rich and poor nations fail to agree on various issues ranging from farm subsidies to details on free trade, the second failure for the WTO in four years.
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Widespread opposition to Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada's plan to export Bolivia's gas played a part in fueling violent street protests by left-wing cocoa growers which lead to the the president's resignation in October.
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