A team of Argentine and Brazilian paleontologists announced the discovery of a new dinosaur species ? a giant, Patagonian plant-eater ? that lived 88 million years ago.
Ecuador told foreign oil companies on Monday they had two weeks to pay the government 317 million US dollars in what the government says are unpaid debts from a windfall royalty approved in 2006.
Latinamerica and the Caribbean are forecasted to grow between 4.9 and 5% this year according to the World Bank's chief economist for the region Augusto de la Torre.