Latin America

• Sunday, August 1st 2010 - 23:42 UTC

  Chavez tones down: ‘supreme objective’ is to stop Uribe’s ‘war-craze’

  

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez reaffirmed that his government's “supreme objective” is to “stop the war-craze” of out-going Colombian President Álvaro Uribe, and he assured the “dilemma” of the bilateral crisis is “between words and missiles.”

• Sunday, August 1st 2010 - 23:23 UTC

  Aymara priest who blessed Bolivian president arrested with 240 kilos of cocaine

  

  The Aymara priest who blessed Bolivian President Evo Morales at an inauguration ceremony four years ago has been arrested in possession of 240 kilos of cocaine, police said.

• Saturday, July 31st 2010 - 19:47 UTC

  Uribe most probably will have Lula da Silva at his table in next Friday’s banquet

  

  The Brazilian Executive spokesman Marcelo Baumbach said on Saturday that President Lula da Silva had a long conversation on the phone with Colombian president-elect Juan Manuel Santos and they talked about the diplomatic crisis with Venezuela.

• Saturday, July 31st 2010 - 19:10 UTC

  Chile first South American country with cities Google Earth 3D

  

  Internet users all over the globe will soon be able to better understand what cities like Santiago and Valparaíso look like. Chile is set to become the first South American country to have buildings in some of its cities rendered in 3-D through Google Earth.

• Saturday, July 31st 2010 - 19:06 UTC

  Chile re-establishes relations with Honduras; recognized President Lobo

  

  Chile is re-establishing diplomatic relations with Honduras more than a year after a coup sent the Central American country into political crisis, Chile's foreign ministry announced Friday.

• Saturday, July 31st 2010 - 05:42 UTC

  Following repeated blackouts Chile announces major overhaul of power control

  

  In light of recent problems with Chile’s electrical system Energy Minister Ricardo Raineri announced this week plans to overhaul the control centre of the interconnected power grid, on which the majority of Chile’s electricity is run.

• Saturday, July 31st 2010 - 05:08 UTC

  Chile ahead in the region as recipient of direct foreign investment

  

  A report issued by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) puts Chile ahead of Brazil in terms of direct foreign investment so far this year. Brazil had been the regional leader since 2007.

• Friday, July 30th 2010 - 06:29 UTC

  Venezuela/Colombia rift: UNASUR unable to reach consensus calls for summit

  

  The UNASUR (Union of South American Nations) Foreign Affairs ministerial meeting concluded Thursday night in Quito without an agreement on how to solve the diplomatic rift between Venezuela and Colombia.

• Friday, July 30th 2010 - 06:16 UTC

  Colombia claims Venezuela at last moment walked out from consensus document

  

  Colombian Foreign Affairs minister Jaime Bermudez claimed Venezuela impeded reaching a consensus on a cooperation mechanism preventing the presence of Colombian guerrillas in other countries, during the Unasur ministerial meeting Thursday in Ecuador.

• Friday, July 30th 2010 - 06:10 UTC

  Earthquake forces Chilean fishermen to move: old port too shallow to operate

  

  Chilean fishermen are still feeling the effects of the Feb. 27 earthquake. Infrastructure damage from the earthquake has forced more than 200 fishermen to relocate from the city of Lebu near Concepcion to the port of Coquimbo, a city to the north.