The Group of Seven most industrialized countries, G7, will be discussing Friday and over the weekend supply and oil market efficiency revealed Tim Adams, United States Treasury Under Secretary for International Affairs.
The speaker of Brazil's lower house resigned Wednesday his post and seat in Congress faced with growing claims of corruption, which he denied to the bitter end.
The Venezuelan navy announced Wednesday its interest in purchasing three of the latest diesel-electric submarines in the world market which will eventually replace its two aging German-made Type 209 subs.
Mexico's crude production increased almost 11% in August reaching 3.41 million barrels per day, government owned petroleum giant Pemex said Wednesday in Mexico City.
In spite of the sustained growth and excellent performance of its economy Chile figures among the fifteen world countries with the greatest inequity between rich and poor, according to the latest World Development report published by the World Bank and released this week.
The growing presence of China in Latinamerica was considered Tuesday by the United States Senate concerned with Beijing's expanding interest in the region's energy resources.
Chilean President Ricardo Lagos insisted on Tuesday that all those civilians who played a role during the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet should apologise to their fellow Chileans as part of a national reconciliation effort.
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries said Tuesday in Vienna it will make more oil available during the last three months of the year in an effort to ease crude price pressures.
Equity, defined primarily as equality of opportunities among people, should be an integral part of a successful poverty reduction strategy anywhere in the developing world, says the World Bank's annual 2006 World Development Report.
The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo yesterday announced the identification of another child abducted at birth by the military dictatorship of 1976-83 and illegally offered for adoption.