Latin America

• Thursday, September 30th 2010 - 04:46 UTC

  Peru, Chile, Colombia integrate stock-exchange operations

  

  Integrated Peruvian, Chilean and Colombian stock-exchange operations are set to begin November 22 announced the president of Peru's stock exchange Roberto Hoyle who said that the integration would attract investors and increase competitiveness .“The integration will be an important step to increasing attractiveness and competitiveness, as well as greater capital flows,” said Hoyle.

• Thursday, September 30th 2010 - 02:49 UTC

  Chilean exporters want government support to face weakening US dollar

  

  Chilean exporters associations of farmers and manufacturers announced they will be requesting government intervention in the foreign exchange market because the “cheap” dollar is threatening their competitiveness edge and profits.

• Thursday, September 30th 2010 - 00:54 UTC

  Chavez two seats short to be granted special decree powers avoiding parliament

  

  President Hugo Chávez's Venezuela’s United Socialist party just beat a newly united opposition bloc for the popular vote at Sunday’s legislative election that split the country down the middle, final official results showed.

• Wednesday, September 29th 2010 - 19:36 UTC

  At least 30 Latam journalists killed doing their job in nine months

  

  At least 90 journalists (30 in Latinamerica) have been killed doing their job so far this year, a 25% increase on the same period of 2009, the media watchdog Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) said this week. PEC has also called on the UN Humans Rights Council to urgently take up the matter.

• Wednesday, September 29th 2010 - 19:31 UTC

  The 34 hunger striker Mapuches in Chile has become world news

  

  Chile’s government said this week it will be impossible to meet demands by 34 Mapuche hunger strikers that all three branches of Chile’s government meet together to resolve the on-going hunger strike.

• Wednesday, September 29th 2010 - 19:27 UTC

  Chilean government says trapped miners could be out by mid-October

  

  While rescuers have insisted that the 33 Chilean trapped miners at San Jose mine will be evacuated in early November, the government has suggested that the rescue will most likely be as early as mid-October.

• Wednesday, September 29th 2010 - 19:15 UTC

  Latam forecasted to grow 5.5% to 6% this year, spurred by Mercosur members

  

  World Bank's Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean Augusto de la Torre said that the Latin American economy will grow between 5.5 and 6% this year spurred mostly by a good performance from Mercosur members.

• Wednesday, September 29th 2010 - 02:27 UTC

  Latin America Looks for More Tourists at FITA 2010

  

  *Exclusive Report for MercoPress by Peter Lowy.
  International tourism is rebounding across Latin America this year, and to help ensure that the upward trend continues, 10 nations across the region participated in the inauguration last week of FITA, the International Tourism Fair of the Americas, in Mexico City.

• Wednesday, September 29th 2010 - 00:20 UTC

  A woman mayor for Lima, where a third of Peruvians live

  

  Regional and municipal elections in Peru this coming Sunday are expected to result in the first female mayor of Lima since the military dictatorship of the 1960s, as two women compete for the office in the final days of the campaign.

• Tuesday, September 28th 2010 - 21:35 UTC

  Chinese freighter ‘Fortune Plum’ the millionth vessel to cross the Panama Canal

  

  A Chinese freighter has become the millionth vessel to cross the Panama Canal three years ahead of the waterway's 100th anniversary, the Canal authority said Monday. The vessel actually crossed the canal September 4 with a load of 40.000 tons of steel products from the Pacific to the Atlantic but the authority announced the news only Monday.