Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro praised the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama, saying it was a positive measure that was more a criticism of past US policies than a recognition of Obama's accomplishments.
Eleven United Nations peacekeepers, six of them Uruguayans were killed Friday when their surveillance plane crashed into a mountainside in Haiti during a routine patrol, United Nations officials said.
The “populist wave” in Latinamerica represented by leaders such as Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales in Bolivia are not an “excessive threat” to stability and territorial balance said Chilean writer Jorge Edwards.
CMPC SA owned by Chile’s billionaire Matte family, agreed to buy a pulp unit in southern Brazil from Fibria for 1.43 billion US dollars to become the world’s second-biggest producer of cellulose.
Honduras ousted president Manuel Zelaya said on Thursday that the head of the de facto government Roberto Micheletti is planning to stay longer than anticipated in office.
Economist Nobel Milton Friedman use to say there is no such thing as a free lunch - but for years the majority of Cubans have been given free meals at state-run workplace canteens.
As of this week the Mexican city of Puebla has a fleet of 35 “pink taxis” exclusive for women and driven by ladies, announced the local Communications and Transport Secretariat.
Chilean dairy farmers on Wednesday expressed satisfaction with the government’s decision to impose safeguards on powder milk (whole and skinned) and Gouda cheese from Argentina and Uruguay.
French retailer Carrefour is seriously considering exiting Latin America, one of its most lucrative markets, under pressure from top shareholders, Le Monde newspaper reported in a preview of its Thursday edition.
Magallanes University Ozone Monitoring Laboratory has detected for the second time this year a considerable advance of the Antarctic Ozone Hole over this region in the extreme south of Chile.