Latin America

• Monday, May 30th 2011 - 02:52 UTC

  National Ballet of Cuba and the legendary Alicia Alonso on US month long tour

  

  The National Ballet of Cuba plans to deliver a “message of peace” when it starts its first United States tour in eight years, said renowned director, Alicia Alonso. The visit is expected to last one month.

• Monday, May 30th 2011 - 01:07 UTC

  Zelaya is cheered on return to Honduras; June first OAS votes on reinstatement

  

  Honduran former president Manuel Zelaya, whose ouster almost two years ago led to Honduras’ expulsion from the Organization of American States, OAS, returned home from exile Saturday following an agreement brokered by Colombia and Venezuela

• Sunday, May 29th 2011 - 20:00 UTC

  Cuba “needs more than ever church blessings” to support reforms, says Raul

  

  President Raul Castro said that Cuba currently “needs more than ever the blessings from its evangelic churches” to keep advancing with the reforms to update the exhausted economic model of the last fifty years, according to reports in the official Havana media.

• Saturday, May 28th 2011 - 08:21 UTC

  Latam has “unprecedented opportunity” to double GDP in next 14 years

  

  The nations of Latin America and the Caribbean have an unprecedented opportunity to attain human development standards comparable to the industrialized world by 2025, Inter-American Development Bank President Luis Alberto Moreno said on Friday.

• Saturday, May 28th 2011 - 08:02 UTC

  Mercosur tourism ministers address ‘border crossings” and overseas promotion

  

  Mercosur tourism ministers agreed to facilitate border crossings for citizens from country members and to draft a homogeneous system for keeping the industry’s statistics, during their XI meeting held in Asuncion, Paraguay.

• Saturday, May 28th 2011 - 07:35 UTC

  Cooperation agreement to develop sustainable tourism in the Americas

  

  The United Nations World Tourism Organization, UNWTO and the Organization of American States, OAS, have signed a cooperation agreement aimed at developing sustainable tourism policies and enhancing the productivity and competitiveness of the tourism sector in the Americas.

• Saturday, May 28th 2011 - 07:24 UTC

  Even if US tightens liquidity, hot money to emerging economies will continue

  

  Capital flows to emerging markets won’t significantly slow when the US Federal Reserve ends its bond-purchasing program known as quantitative easing, said Olivier Blanchard, chief economist at the IMF.

• Saturday, May 28th 2011 - 07:03 UTC

  Mexico strikes major gas deposit in Gulf of Mexico deep water drilling

  

  State-owned oil giant Petroleos Mexicanos, Pemex, announced this week it had struck between 400 billion and 600 billion cubic feet of natural gas and condensates at a deepwater well in the Gulf of Mexico.

• Friday, May 27th 2011 - 22:37 UTC

  Chile’s pulp giant Arauco trebles profits in first quarter of 2011

  

  Chile’s Arauco the forestry and pulp unit belonging to the Copec group, trebled profits in the first quarter boosted by higher international prices and sale volumes particularly pulp, according to the company’s latest financial report.

• Friday, May 27th 2011 - 22:03 UTC

  Unasur Defence Council has to protect the region’s vast and strategic resources

  

  The Union of South American Nations, Unasur, has among the objectives of the recently created South American Defence Council protecting the natural resources of the region which include 25% of the world’s drinking water and proven oil reserves estimated in 123 billion barrels of oil.