Latin America

• Friday, September 6th 2013 - 02:00 UTC

  Mujica confirms: no intention of irritating Argentina on pulp mills’ controversy

  

  Uruguay’ President Jose Mujica said the decision authorizing a possible expansion, or not, of the UPM/Botnia pulp mill is closely linked to Argentina and the construction of a third plant along an inside Uruguayan river and not a shared one as is the case now.

• Friday, September 6th 2013 - 01:52 UTC

  Repsol expands gas production in Bolivia to supply growing Argentine demand

  

  Spain’s Repsol inaugurated on Thursday, a month before schedule, a new module of its gas processing plant in Margarita in the south of Bolivia which will allow the company in three weeks, to significantly increase its production and delivery to Argentina, its main client.

• Friday, September 6th 2013 - 00:06 UTC

  Iran trade with Latinamerica remained stable at 4bn dollars in 2012, says Latinvex

  

  Iran's trade with Argentina grew last year while trade with Brazil declined, according to an analysis by online business publication Latinvex based on data from the IMF. Iran's total trade with Latin America grew by 0.9% to 4 billion dollars in 2012. Brazil and Argentina still dominate Iran's trade with Latin America, accounting for 93% of the region's total trade with the Persian country.

• Thursday, September 5th 2013 - 23:59 UTC

  Motorcycle deaths in the Americas more than tripled in the last two decades

  

  Motorcycle deaths in the Americas more than tripled during the last two decades, according to a study by the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) published in the International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion.

• Thursday, September 5th 2013 - 04:10 UTC

  Unasur has yet to reach a consensus-name for the next secretary general

  

  Despite the strong statement against US intervention in Syria and the harmonious meeting of Paraguay and Venezuela presidents, the recent Unasur (Union of South American Nations) summit in Suriname was unable to agree on the group’s next Secretary General, a post which is currently held by Venezuela’s Ali Rodriguez.

• Thursday, September 5th 2013 - 03:53 UTC

  Argentine politicians warn Uruguay on possible expansion of pulp mill production capacity

  

  The bilateral conflict between Argentina and Uruguay over the UPM/Botnia pulp mill, on the Uruguayan side of the Uruguay River is once again leading to tension between the two neighbours amid reports that the plant’s Finnish owners plan to increase production from 1.1 to 1.3 million tons of cellulose paste per year.

• Thursday, September 5th 2013 - 03:35 UTC

  Falklands’ lawmaker has full round of political and business contacts in Uruguay

  

  “We have come for people-to-people contacts, to talk about business opportunities and for the resumption of the close and historic links between the Falkland Islands and Uruguay”, repeated Falklands’ lawmaker Dick Sawle during one of his many presentations in Montevideo.

• Thursday, September 5th 2013 - 02:20 UTC

  Latam/China trade highly vulnerable: raw materials for manufactured goods

  

  Over the past decade China has become a key partner for Latin America and the Caribbean with bilateral trade increasing 22 fold between 2000 and 2012, albeit with a strong deficit for Latin American countries, according to Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.

• Thursday, September 5th 2013 - 01:48 UTC

  Chilean economy slowing but still vigorous with growth ranging of 4% to 4.5%

  

  Chile's central bank cut its forecast range for 2013 GDP growth but maintained inflation and domestic demand predictions as the effects of a slowdown hitting copper demand are moderated by consumer spending.

• Thursday, September 5th 2013 - 01:36 UTC

  ”The majority of ministers of Piñera’s government are all children of Pinochet”

  

  A prominent backer of the 1973 military coup against elected President Salvador Allende said that General Augusto Pinochet betrayed those who supported the putsch out of patriotic sentiments. Roberto Thieme, a founder of the nationalist Homeland and Freedom movement, known as PyL, spoke out a week before the 40th anniversary of Allende's bloody ouster in an interview with Radio Cooperativa.