Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Cuba are among Latin American countries elected to the newly-created United Nations Human Rights Council, which will replace the Geneva-based Human Rights Commission.
Greater Restrictions On Car Traffic Foreseen, As Santiago's Polluted Air Becomes Increasingly Unbearable
THE Falkland Islands is going to join the UK in ratifying the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol.
Few countries are benefiting quite as much from the bonanza in raw material prices as Chile, Latin America's fourth largest economy.
Bolivia is aiming to raise prices on its natural gas exports to Argentina by up to 65 percent, its planning minister said in an interview with a leading Argentine newspaper on Sunday.
Brazil is considering buying natural gas from other countries including Nigeria after its main supplier, Bolivia, demanded higher prices.
A documentary about the Iraq war and a film about the lasting impact on soldiers' lives of a conflict more than 20 years ago won the top awards at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York on Saturday.
United States president George W. Bush said again that the problem of illegal immigration can only be solved through a combination of tighter border security and a guest-worker program, but also stressed that immigrants have a duty to integrate into American society.
Venezuela's only chamber legislature which has no opposition representatives approved the new contract model contract for mixed enterprises in which state-owned oil company PDVSA becomes the dominant partner.
Ultra nationalist and former Army officer Ollanta Humala is trailing ex president Alan García in the latest public opinion polls for Peru's presidential run off next June 4.