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Chavez receives Russian built military helicopters; Copper prices record trend forecasted to continue; March consumer inflation in Chile: 0.6%.
When you think of Brazil and birds, you probably think of rainforests and brightly-coloured parrots.
Chile will have totally professional Armed Forces, eliminating conscription, in eight years time according to a plan unveiled by President Michelle Bachelet.
The number of vessels waiting to cross the Panama Canal on Tuesday reached 103 causing considerable delays, --up to five days--, according to the administrative body of the inter-oceanic waterway
Presidential elections in seven Latin American countries this year have investors jittery over prospects that new leaders might undermine the region's economic gains, leading international bankers said Tuesday in Belo Horizonte.
Gaston Pauls, star of the film Iluminados por el Fuego (Enlightened by fire), which deals with the appalling treatment handed out to Argentine conscripts both during and after the 1982 conflict, returned to the Falklands last Saturday, accompanied by a TV production team.
Uruguay announced that a widely expected summit between its President and that of Argentina to seek a solution to a dispute over two Uruguayan factories under construction has been suspended once again after a company building one of the plants yesterday refused to halt works for a period demanded by Argentina to assess the environmental consequences,
The centre-right Future Foundation think tank revealed the results of a survey that documents dramatic change in attitudes towards sex and sexual behaviour in Chile.
U.S. oil firm Chevron-Texaco and France's Total have accepted to pay the Venezuelan government some 113.5 million US dollars in back taxes, dating from the 2001/2004 period, announced Wednesday the Venezuelan tax office, SENIAT.
Rockhopper Exploration plc (Rockhopper) announced Wednesday the signing of a Letter Of Intent with CGG Marine to conduct a 3D seismic survey on its North Falkland Basin acreage.