Latin America

• Wednesday, April 14th 2010 - 01:26 UTC

  Brazil believes the Chinese currency will appreciate “a bit more” this year

  

  China may let the Yuan gain “a bit more” within 12 months as the world’s third-largest economy moves away from a currency policy that creates distortions, Brazilian central bank President Henrique Meirelles said.

• Tuesday, April 13th 2010 - 05:40 UTC

  Chilean quake almost aborts secret mission to ship enriched uranium to the US

  

  Andrew Bieniawski, assistant deputy administrator of the United States National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) had one thing in mind while lying in his hotel bed in Chile during the Feb. 27 earthquake: a secret mission.

• Tuesday, April 13th 2010 - 05:34 UTC

  Peruvian Andes glacier breaks-off: preview of what is to come?

  

  A huge glacier broke-off and plunged into a lake in Peru, causing a 23-metre tsunami wave that swept away at least three people and destroyed a water processing plant serving 60,000 local residents, government officials said Monday.

• Tuesday, April 13th 2010 - 02:27 UTC

  Chilean tribunal upholds controversial law in support of salmon industry

  

  Chilean salmon industry leaders celebrated the decision by the Constitutional Tribunal (TC) to reject a challenge to the newly passed “Ley de Pesca” (Fishing Law).

• Monday, April 12th 2010 - 23:12 UTC

  Castro brothers against opening Cuba, because that’s the end of them, claims Clinton

  

  The Cuban brothers Fidel and Raúl Castro do not want to normalize ties with Washington because they would “lose their excuses” for the country's lack of development and openness, said US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaking at the University of Louisville in Kentucky.

• Monday, April 12th 2010 - 05:20 UTC

  Chilean Army de-mining fields bordering the Magellan Strait

  

  Chile’s Army demining team announced last week the clearance of 5.799 mines in the north of Tierra del Fuego next to the so called Primera Angostura (First Narrow) of the Magellan Strait.

• Monday, April 12th 2010 - 05:18 UTC

  Living myth Fidel Castro, “a man with a superior intellect by heartless”

  

  Dissident Cuban neurosurgeon Hilda Molina, now living in Argentina, said in an interview that Fidel Castro once felt “a very marked inclination” towards her.

• Monday, April 12th 2010 - 05:13 UTC

  Kissinger accused of turning blind eye to Latam military regimes political killings

  

  Henry Kissinger while United States Secretary of State, halted a plan to warn South American military regimes against international political assassinations such as those involving the 1976 death in Washington of former Chilean minister Orlando Letelier, a document shows.

• Monday, April 12th 2010 - 05:09 UTC

  Hollywood stars support natural park conservation project in Ecuador

  

  Hollywood stars Leonardo Di Caprio and Glenn Close are willing to support an environment-conservation project in Ecuador that would prevent the extraction of 850 million barrels of oil from the Amazon.

• Saturday, April 10th 2010 - 05:07 UTC

  Bolivia, Venezuela, Ecuador, high risk areas for foot and mouth disease

  

  Bolivia, Venezuela and Ecuador are considered endemic foot and mouth disease regions according to the Pan-American FAM office, Panaftosa, which keeps track of the disease in the continent and has its main offices in Brazil.