Stories for April 2009

Monday, April 20th 2009 - 06:29 UTC
Uruguay’s cruise season “very good”; caution about 2009/2010

The 2008/09 cruise season in Uruguay has come to an end over the weekend totalling 169 calls which is 87% higher than the previous season. However the big news is that while the port of the capital Montevideo virtually received the same number of tourists, the exclusive South Atlantic sea-side resort of Punta del Este almost doubled the calls.
Sunday, April 19th 2009 - 05:39 UTC
Huge LNG plant ready to open in Chile and cut Argentine dependency

Chile is just months away from beginning operations at a huge Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) re-gasification plant that was first planned during the Ricardo Lagos administration. The 1.1 billion US dollars plant is located near the Region V coastal city of Quintero.
Sunday, April 19th 2009 - 05:23 UTC
Chavez considering name of the next ambassador in Washington

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said that with President Barack Obama leading the US, strained bilateral relations will improve and revealed he was considering the name of his next ambassador in Washington.
Sunday, April 19th 2009 - 05:03 UTC
Brazilian agriculture, world’s top consumers of pesticides

Brazil became in 2008 the world's top consumer of agriculture pesticides (ahead of the US), and continues to use a range of dangerous pesticides banned in other countries, according to a study released Friday.
Sunday, April 19th 2009 - 04:54 UTC
Obama more popular than Chavez in Venezuela, says US top aide

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez rushed a photograph of him and President Obama shaking hands onto his government's website because Mr. Obama is more popular than Mr. Chavez in Venezuela, said Jeffrey Davidow, senior advisor to the US president on Latinamerican affairs.
Sunday, April 19th 2009 - 04:49 UTC
Climate change could reverse forests’ carbon absorption functions

Forests' role as massive carbon sinks is “at risk of being lost entirely”, top forestry scientists have warned. The International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) says forests are under increasing degrees of stress as a result of climate change.
Sunday, April 19th 2009 - 04:43 UTC
Obama tells Unasur members US and Cuba are “on a path of change”

South American leaders pressed President Barack Obama on Saturday to end the US economic embargo on Cuba and abstain from interventionist policies as he attempts to reshape US hemispheric relations. Obama was quoted saying that the US and Cuba are “on a path of change”
Sunday, April 19th 2009 - 04:24 UTC
The U shaped “new beginning” table in Port Spain

Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet, pro tempore president of the Union of South American Nations, Unasur, chaired this morning’s closed doors meeting or South American leaders with Barrack Obama.
Saturday, April 18th 2009 - 13:10 UTC
Agreement on new limits for Antarctica tourism

Countries with ties to Antarctica have adopted US proposals to limit tourism in the region, in a bid to protect the fragile ecosystem of the continent.
Saturday, April 18th 2009 - 10:45 UTC
All pictures in London and Blackpool “verboten” by British police orders

The Austrian tourists who say they were forced by police to delete images of London buses amid terrorism fears have received help from the UK to recover their lost pictures.
Klaus Matzka and his son were left in shock when police demanded they stopped taking pictures of London buses and delete all such images immediately.