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                   L A T I N   A M E R I C A

            Thursday, May 24, 2001, Vol. 2, Issue 102

                           Headlines



A N T I G U A   &    B A R B U D A

LIAT: Voluntary Retirement Package Gets Union Support


A R G E N T I N A

AEROLINEAS ARGENTINAS: Can't Fulfill Obligations To Workers


B R A Z I L

CESP: Remains on `CreditWatch' With Developing Implications


C H I L E

BOLIDEN LIMITED: Announces New Equity, Other Refinancing Plans
BOLIDEN LIMITED: Will Not Sell Chilean Assets To Falconbridge


M E X I C O

BANCRECER: Citigroup's Acquisition Of Banacci Boosts Sale Value
BUFETE: Bolanos To Take Control Thursday
GRUPO GIGANTE: To Announce Entry Of A New Partner Soon
GRUPO PULSAR: Fails To Make Payment On A $75M Bank Loan
GRUPO VITRO: Soon To Close Negotiations On $200M Loan
GRUPO VITRO: Wants Mulian Out Of The Picture
SAVIA: Empaq Sale Proceeds Could Be Embargoed
SAVIA: Shares Fall To Lowest Level In Six Years


V E N E Z U E L A

SIDOR: Signs Agreement With Union Leaders Ending 22-Day Strike


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LIAT: Voluntary Retirement Package Gets Union Support
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The troubled regional airline LIAT Limited's (1974) plan to offer
voluntary early retirement package to some workers has the
support of the Antigua Workers Union (AWU), Caribbean News Agency
reported Tuesday.

"What LIAT is seeking to do is to reduce expenditure without
creating any heavy impact on workers, then it is good for all of
us," Maurice Christian, AWU President said.

The airline will see a reduction in the number of its workers due
to the retirement package. Additionally, it hopes to generate
much-needed cash from the labor cost savings.



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AEROLINEAS ARGENTINAS: Can't Fulfill Obligations To Workers
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Despite pressure from the Argentine government to fulfill  
obligations to its workers or face a fine, debt-laden airline
Aerolineas Argentinas informed its workforce Tuesday that it
could not pay some $15 million in overdue April salaries,
according to a report in Reuters. Argentine Cabinet Chief
Chrystian Colombo suggested that the company could be fined up to
$1 million a day for delays in paying its payroll.

Struggling to pay debts of approximately $900 million, Aerolineas
said in a statement that, at the beginning of May, it had
deferred the payment of April salaries to no later than May 22.
The company blamed its "economic situation" for the delay and
admits that the situation has not improved.

"Unfortunately, this situation not only was not reversed, but
instead it worsened, given a steep drop in sales for reasons that
are of public knowledge," said the statement, in apparent
reference to the recent strike.

According to the statement, the airline has been in talks with
the Argentine government about disbursing millions of dollars
promised to the company in October, which it would use to pay the
salaries. The government, in October, said it would give
Aerolineas $32.5 million over two years, of which it has already
disbursed $8 million. Up to this point talks with the government
have been unsuccessful.



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CESP: Remains on `CreditWatch' With Developing Implications
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Standard & Poor's single-'B'-plus local and foreign currency
ratings on Companhia Energetica de Sao Paulo (CESP) remain on
CreditWatch with developing implications where they were placed
on Feb. 5, 2001.

The privatization of CESP has again been delayed. Several
injunctions were filed just before the scheduled auction, and
federal government efforts to remedy expected power shortages,
specifically power rationing, led the state of Sao Paulo to
postpone the auction until ramifications of the national energy
crisis can be better assessed. Yet continued expectations for
imminent privatization warrant keeping CESP on CreditWatch
Developing. The CreditWatch placement reflects uncertainties
surrounding the creditworthiness of the purchaser of CESP, the
manner in which the acquisition will be financed, and the
resultant capital structure. Standard & Poor's previous concerns
about CESP's ability to refinance a bullet amortization of US$500
million and raise the water level behind the Porto Primavera
plant have been resolved. In addition, while CESP may be unable
to sell power into the secondary markets (it has typically
generated an excess of 20% above "assured energy"), the company
has indicated that it will be able to generate enough energy to
meet its contractual commitments. Profit margins are largely a
function of assured energy sales under contract.

Thus, CESP's ratings reflect:

-- CESP's high nominal debt service burden; total debt to total
capitalization is about 40%.

-- High foreign currency exposure, which could hurt earnings.
CESP is exposed to fluctuations in the value of the real, in
which it derives its earnings, however, about 75% of its debt is
in foreign currencies (and no hedging policy is in place). As a
result of both the high debt load and high foreign currency,
gross cash flow to interest coverage was low at approximately 1.4
times for the fiscal year ending Dec. 31, 2000.

-- Fundamental uncertainties about the energy regulatory regime
in Brazil. Current low water conditions have resulted in an
energy shortage, which may result in financial stress for CESP as
a state-owned large generator, despite the fact that the state of
Sao Paulo has not asked CESP to modify its rates or undertake
additional investment to help ameliorate the impact of the energy
crisis.

These weaknesses are offset by the following strengths:

-- CESP's generation sources are in good condition and have
strong availability rates, CESP has always generated more than
its designated "assured energy", and despite low hydro conditions
this year, CESP is expected to continue generating its assured
energy level and thus meet its contractual commitments.

-- A very tight energy market meaning that, over the near term,
CESP has a very strong market for its energy. Brazil, in which
more than 90% of its installed capacity is hydroelectric, is
experiencing a low-water year.

-- The market is large and growing, consisting of the Sao Paulo
metropolitan area and, eventually, the south-southeastern region
of Brazil. Currently, CESP provides power to the Sao Paulo
metropolitan area, Brazil's richest and most industrialized
region, through its sales to four distribution companies. In a
liberalized market, CESP will sell power to the entire south-
southeastern market of Brazil, the most developed and rapidly
growing part of the country.

-- CESP participates in a risk-sharing mechanism (relocation of
energy mechanism-MRE) with all the other hydro plants in the
nation to minimize the risk of poor hydro conditions occurring in
any one hydrological basin. All of CESP's generating plants are
hydroelectric, and four stations generating 98% of CESP's energy
are located either within or near the Parana River. While this
mechanism has worked well in the past, transmission
interconnections are insufficient to import energy to the
Southeast region, which is facing a severe water shortage,
Standard & Poor's said.



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BOLIDEN LIMITED: Announces New Equity, Other Refinancing Plans
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Boliden Limited (the "Company") today announced the following
initiatives aimed at restoring its financial strength and
operating flexibility:

(a) a common share rights offering of SEK 1.14 billion ($114
million) at SEK 2 per common share to the Company's existing
shareholders secured by subscription commitments provided by
certain shareholders (the "Committed Shareholders") and standby
commitments provided by certain Committed Shareholders and
Swedish financial institutions, companies, unions, associations
and funds (the "Standby Consortium"), the proceeds of which will
be used to finance the Company's operations (the "Rights
Offering");

(b) a common share offering of SEK 1.5 billion ($150 million) at
SEK 2 per common share, secured, as to SEK 0.5 billion ($50
million), by purchase commitments provided by certain members of
the Standby Consortium and certain Swedish financial institutions
and funds (the "Guarantee Consortium") and directed, as to the
balance, to certain of the Company's lenders (the "Lenders"), the
proceeds of which will be used to reduce the Company's bank debt,
including losses which will be incurred on the closing out of the
Company's foreign currency hedge contracts (the "Directed
Offering"); and

(c) a proposal to the Company's lenders to refinance and
reschedule the Company's remaining bank debt under a new credit
facility on terms which will reflect the increased financial
strength of the Company following the Rights Offering and the
Directed Offering.

Completion of each initiative will be conditional upon the
contemporaneous successful completion of the other initiatives.

Shareholders who exercise all their rights under the Rights
Offering will be entitled to purchase additional common shares at
SEK 2 per common share. Additional purchase requests of
shareholders that are not satisfied out of the Rights Offering
will be satisfied, to a maximum of their initial purchases under
the Rights Offering, out of that portion of the Directed Offering
directed to the Lenders.

The Committed Shareholders, the Standby Consortium and the
Guarantee Consortium include Aktiespararna, Alecta, Andra AP-
fonden, Apotekets Pensionsstiftelse, Banco Fonder, Carl Bennet
AB, Catella Capital, ForeningsSparbanken, Handelsbanken Fonder,
LKAB, Ostersjostiftelsen, Peab, SEB Fonder, Sjunde AP-fonden,
Skandia, Skelleftea Kraft, Sparbanken Nord, Stena Metall, Svenska
Metallindustriarbetareforbundet and Trelleborg.

Once the initiatives have been completed, the Company intends to
restructure its board of directors to include members of the
Swedish business and investment communities and to take steps to
redomicile the Company back to Sweden. These steps will be taken
in recognition of the fact that the overwhelming majority of the
Company's shares are held in Sweden. The Company's board of
directors also intends to appoint an advisory board (the
"Advisory Board") composed of members of the Swedish business and
investment communities to assist it in carrying out the
initiatives and redomiciling the Company back to Sweden. The
Advisory Board will include Carl Bennet (Chairman of the Board of
Elanders AB, Getinge Industrier AB and Sorb Industri), Goran
Collert (Chairman of the Board of ForeningsSparbanken AB), Goran
Lindahl (member of the Board of Ericsson, Sony and DuPont and
former Managing Director and CEO of ABB), Kjell Nilsson (member
of the Board of Munksjo and former Managing Director and CEO of
Trelleborg and Boliden), Anders Sundstrom (Chairman of the Board
of Sparbanken Nord and former Swedish Minister of Industry) and
Bengt Lofkvist (former Managing Director and CEO of Boliden
Mineral). It is anticipated that members of the Advisory Board
will become directors of the Company.

Background

The initiatives are the culmination of the Company's capital
management program begun in mid 2000 and will restore the
Company's financial strength and operating flexibility. The
Rights Offering and the Directed Offering have been priced and
structured to encourage and permit existing shareholders to
participate to the maximum extent possible. If they exercise
their full entitlements under the offerings, existing
shareholders will continue to own approximately 84% of the
Company.

Rights Offering and Directed Offering

Rights Offering

The Rights Offering will be made to holders of common shares,
Swedish depository receipts representing common shares ("SDRs")
and convertible preferred shares. The Company currently has
approximately 218.77 million outstanding common shares,
approximately 82% of which are represented by SDRs. The Company
currently has approximately 4.67 million outstanding convertible
preferred shares. Each convertible preferred share is convertible
into 14.3803 common shares. The common shares and the convertible
preferred shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the SDRs
trade on the Stockholm Exchange.

Holders of common shares will receive one right for each common
share held by them. Holders of SDRs will receive one depository
receipt representing a right ("RDR") for each SDR held by them.
Holders of convertible preferred shares will receive 14.3803
rights for each convertible preferred share held by them. Each
right will entitle the holder to purchase two common shares at a
purchase price of C$0.30 (the equivalent of SEK 2) per common
share. Each RDR will entitle the holder to purchase two SDRs at a
purchase price of SEK 2 per SDR. The rights and the RDRs will be
fully transferable and will be listed on the Toronto Stock
Exchange and the Stockholm Exchange, respectively. The rights and
the RDRs will be convertible into one another.

Rightsholders who exercise all their rights will be entitled to
purchase additional common shares at the same purchase price. RDR
holders who exercise all their RDRs will be entitled to purchase
additional SDRs at the same price. Additional purchase requests
of rightsholders and RDR holders that are not satisfied out of
the Rights Offering will be satisfied, to a maximum of their
initial purchases under the Rights Offering, out of that portion
of the Directed Offering directed to the Lenders.

The Company has received subscription commitments (the
"Subscription Commitments") from the Committed Shareholders.
Under the Subscription Commitments, the Committed Shareholders
have agreed to exercise all or part of the rights and RDRs issued
to them for a total purchase price of SEK 258 million ($25.8
million). The Company has also received standby commitments (the
"Standby Commitments") from the Standby Consortium. Under the
Standby Commitments, the Standby Consortium has agreed to
purchase that number of SDRs which is equal to the number of
common shares and SDRs not purchased pursuant to the Rights
Offering at a purchase price of SEK 2 per common share to a
maximum of SEK 885 million ($88.5 million) (the "Maximum Standby
Amount"). No fee is payable to the Committed Shareholders in
respect of the Subscription Commitments. A fee of 3% of the
Maximum Standby Amount is payable to the Standby Consortium in
respect of the Standby Commitments.

Directed Offering

The Directed Offering will be directed as to SEK 1.0 billion
($100 million), less the additional purchase requests of
rightsholders and RDR holders that are not satisfied out of the
Rights Offering, to the Lenders. The remaining SEK 0.5 billion
($50 million) will be directed to the Guarantee Consortium. The
purchase price of the SDRs to be issued pursuant to the Directed
Offering will be SEK 2 per SDR.

The Company has received purchase commitments (the "Purchase
Commitments") from the Guarantee Consortium for the full amount
of that portion of the Directed Offering directed to them. The
Company will request similar purchase commitments from the
Lenders for the full amount of that portion of the Directed
Offering directed to them (the "Lenders Commitments"). No fee
will be payable to the Lenders in respect of the Lenders
Commitments. A fee of 3% of the Purchase Commitments is payable
to the Guarantee Consortium in respect of the Purchase
Commitments.

Conditions

The commitments of the Committed Shareholders, the Standby
Consortium and the Guarantee Consortium are conditional upon the
approval and implementation of the Refinancing Proposal
(described below) on satisfactory terms, receipt of the Lenders
Commitments and the Company retaining its interests in Compania
Minera Lomas Bayas and Compania Minera Boliden Westmin Chile
Limitada, the owners of the Lomas Bayas SX-EW copper project and
adjacent Fortuna de Cobre copper deposit located in Chile (the
"Chilean Assets").

Completion of each of the Rights Offering and the Directed
Offering will be conditional upon the contemporaneous successful
completion of the other and the approval and implementation of
the Refinancing Proposal on satisfactory terms.

Use of Proceeds, etc.

The net proceeds of the Rights Offering will be used to finance
the Company's operations. The net proceeds of the Directed
Offering will be used to reduce the Company's bank debt,
including losses which will be incurred on the closing out of the
Company's foreign currency hedge contracts.

The Rights Offering and the Directed Offering will be made by way
of prospectus in Canada and Sweden. The Company will formally
launch the offerings following the clearance of the prospectus by
the Canadian securities regulatory authorities and the Stockholm
Exchange, which is expected to take approximately two to three
weeks to complete. The Rights Offering will be open for a minimum
of 21 days after the record date, which is expected to be in mid-
June. By that time, the Company expects to have finalised the
Refinancing Proposal. The Company intends to complete the
offerings by mid-July.

Certificates representing rights will not be mailed to
shareholders resident in the United States or in any other
jurisdiction where, in the opinion of the Company, certificates
representing rights may not be delivered or common shares may not
be issued. RDRs will not be reflected in the VP accounts of SDR
holders resident in the United States, Australia or Japan.

Refinancing Proposal

The Company will present a refinancing proposal to the
counterparties to its foreign currency hedge contracts and to the
lenders under its principal credit facilities other than the
Lomas Bayas project lenders (the "Refinancing Proposal"). Under
the Refinancing Proposal, the counterparties will be asked to
close out the hedge contracts and convert the losses incurred to
debt and the counterparties and the lenders will be asked to
refinance the debt outstanding under a new credit facility with
debt maturities ranging from two to five years and terms
reflecting the increased financial strength of the Company
following the Rights Offering and the Directed Offering and the
subsequent reduction of bank debt.

Boliden is engaged in mining, processing and selling metals and
mineral products, principally copper and zinc, with operations in
Europe, Chile and Canada.


BOLIDEN LIMITED: Will Not Sell Chilean Assets To Falconbridge
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Canadian-Swedish mining-metals company Boliden decided to keep
its Lomas Bayas copper mine in northern Chile.  Instead of
selling the division to Toronto-based Falconbridge Boliden is
forging ahead with a combination equity offering and debt
restructuring, Business News Americas reported Tuesday. Boliden
needs to keep the Chilean assets as part of a condition drawn up
with the banks in its restructuring plan. The plan involves
issuing fresh equity of US$260 million and rescheduling the
company's debts, which total US$1.19 billion.

"We're glad we've been able to keep Lomas Bayas because we
believe it's a good project and its performance has been
improving," Boliden president and CEO Thomas Cederborg said.
Lomas Bayas has suffered a series of technical problems since
starting operations in 1998, but is now running close to
capacity. According to Cederborg, the plan to sell the Chilean
assets had been aimed at paying off some of Boliden's debt.

Meanwhile Falconbridge is considering legal action against
Boliden. In a statement released later on Friday, it said that it
and sister company fellow Torontonian Noranda regard Boliden's
refusal to go through with the deal "as an attempt to repudiate a
legally binding agreement." The two are "examining all of their
legal remedies including an action for a court order forcing
Boliden to complete the sale on the agreed upon terms."


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BANCRECER: Citigroup's Acquisition Of Banacci Boosts Sale Value
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Last week's announcement of U.S.-based Citigroup's $12.5 billion
acquisition of Mexico's Grupo Financiero Banamex Accival
(Banacci) will help boost the sale value of Mexican banking
system assets still under the control of bank bailout agency
IPAB, Reforma reported Monday. One of the companies still under
IPAB's control is government-intervened bank Bancrecer, which
accounts for around 3 percent of the country's banking service
market, operating a nationwide network of 800 branches. Bancrecer
has an estimated book value of $400 million. A recent Merrill
Lynch report indicates that the premium Bancrecer bidders would
be willing to pay for the retail potential it represents in
Mexico's rapidly consolidating bank sector had risen after
Citigroup announced it would acquire Banacci for roughly 2.8-
times its book value. All indications are that IPAB is preparted
to invite formal expressions of interest from potential bidders
for Bancrecer.


BUFETE: Bolanos To Take Control Thursday
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On Thursday, Grupo Serbo Chairman Sergio Bolanos will take a
majority control in the struggling Mexican engineering and
construction firm Bufete Industrial, according to a report
Tuesday in Reforma/Infolatina. Subsequently, the new owner will
then restructure the company's liabilities. Earlier this year,
Bolanos made his intentions to acquire Bufete known. Negotiations
with Bufete creditors and company Chairman Jose Mendoza have been
underway for several months.


GRUPO GIGANTE: To Announce Entry Of A New Partner Soon
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Mexico's fourth-largest supermarket retailer Grupo Gigante is
expected to announce the entry of a new partner soon, Infolatina
reported Tuesday. Still unclear is whether this major foreign
company has acquired a full or partial control of the supermarket
retailer. Gigante suppliers in the northern city of Monterrey
have been informed that delays in liquidation of their accounts
are due to a financial restructuring underway at the company in
preparation for the entry of a "new partner."

Among the companies thought to be potentially interested in
Gigante are Royal Ahold, of the Netherlands, and French retailers
Carrefour and Guichard-Perrachon. Gigante operates 34 stores in
the Monterrey area. It acquired eight of the stores from the
Azcunaga chain in June last year.


GRUPO PULSAR: Fails To Make Payment On A $75M Bank Loan
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Monterrey-based Mexican industrial conglomerate Grupo Pulsar,
which controls Savia SA, failed to make a payment last week on a
$75 million loan. The company is scrambling to restructure its
debt, Bloomberg revealed Tuesday. The one-year bank loan, which
was issued in May last year, was led by Standard Bank London Ltd.
and resold to individual investors. The company also has another
$40 million payment coming due in the September-October period.
Both payments are on notes Pulsar issued on agro-biotechnology
subsidiary Savia's behalf. Most of the loan proceeds were
invested in Savia subsidiary Seminis, one of the world's leading
producers of fruit and vegetable seeds.

Pulsar hired Grupo Financiero Atlantico to help it restructure
its debt with creditors through the sale of assets, according to
a letter signed by executives of Atlantico and confirmed by a
Pulsar spokesman.

"Pulsar has proposed paying its debts through a restructuring
plan that includes the sale of assets from Pulsar and some of its
subsidiaries," said the letter, which was signed by Hernando
Perez and Carlos Ordonez of Atlantico in Greenwich, Connecticut.


GRUPO VITRO: Soon To Close Negotiations On $200M Loan
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Leading Mexican glassmaker Grupo Vitro is planning to invest
between $100-$120 million to build a new industrial oven for its
flat-glass division. Plans for the investment ride on the
successful completion of a syndicated loan forthcoming before the
end of the third quarter, according to a report Tuesday in
Infolatina. Executives at the glassmaker are working frantically
to complete negotiations on a $200 million syndicated loan
package currently in the works.

Vitro has a $24 million debt payment scheduled for next Thursday
but says it has the payment covered. As such, the current payment
doesn't factor into the ongoing syndicated-loan negotiations. The
proceeds of the syndicated loan reportedly will also be used to
refinance a $175 million Yankee bond that matures in 2002.


GRUPO VITRO: Wants Mulian Out Of The Picture
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Mexico's Grupo Vitro, aiming to meet a 2001 forecast of $2.9
billion in consolidated sales, is trying to convince Indonesian
glassmaker Mulian to stop exporting flat-glass products to
Mexico, El Economista/Infolatina reported Tuesday. Vitro, which
sees Mulian's glass products for the construction industry as a
threat to its local sales, reportedly offered to continue using
the Indonesian company as a supplier for Cristalglass if it
abandons its export market in Mexico. Vitro recently acquired the
Spanish flat-glass company Cristalglass, which uses Mulian as a
supplier.


SAVIA: Empaq Sale Proceeds Could Be Embargoed
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A committee of bank creditors, which is soon to be formed, could
embargo the proceeds from the $285 million sale of Grupo Savia's
three packaging subsidiaries. The Mexican agro-biotechnology
company previouisly controlled Empaques Ponderosa (Empaq),
Infolatina reported Tuesday. The sale, according to Monterrey-
based Grupo Pulsar subsidiary Savia, was part of a divestment
program designed to reduce its estimated debts of $1.8 billion.
However, informed observers close to the deal said Savia seems
unlikely to meet its impending repayment obligations, prompting
the committee to embargo the sale proceeds. One of these three
banks - Chase Manhattan, Noruma Securities and Bank of America -
will chair the committee of Savia bank creditors once it is
formed.


SAVIA: Shares Fall To Lowest Level In Six Years
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Shares in Mexico's Savia SA, controlled by billionaire Alfonso
Romo, plunged 34 percent to 14 pesos, their lowest price in six
years as the holding company is expected to sell much of its
assets, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. The company has been
struggling to pay a $1.3 billion debt. Recently, Savia sold its
packaging unit Empaques Ponderosa SA in a transaction worth $285
million dollars. Furthermore, it sold a controlling stake in
Seguros Comercial America SA, Mexico's No. 1 insurance company,
to ING Groep NV, the largest Dutch financial services company.
Now, Savia is left with only Seminis and Bionova seed units,
which have a combined market capitalization of about $120 million
dollars.



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SIDOR: Signs Agreement With Union Leaders Ending 22-Day Strike
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Venezuelan steelmaker Siderurgica del Orinoco (Sidor) saw an end
to the 22-day strike when it signed an agreement with union
leaders on Tuesday, according to a report in Bloomberg.

"We can resume normal production in one or two weeks, depending
on the damages caused by the shutdown," said Alsacia Vahlis,
Sidor's labor relations manager. "We'll do everything we can to
compensate for the losses."

Sidor earlier announced it would invest $90 million this year to
boost output to 3.4 million tons from 2.8 million last year, but
the strike casts doubt on the company's ability to reach the
goal. The strike has cost the company more than $60 million in
lost sales and nearly pushed it into bankruptcy had it dragged on
any longer.

The conflict came to a head last week when Sidor said a failure
to reach a timely resolution could force the company into
bankruptcy. Still, union leaders said they are satisfied with the
results.

"We don't regret a thing," said Ramon Machuca, head of the
country's largest steelworkers union. "We fought as hard as we
could for the rights of the workers."




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