Latin America

• Saturday, September 26th 2009 - 12:31 UTC

  Security Council calls on Honduras to stop harassing the Brazilian embassy

  

  The United Nations Security Council held an emergency meeting on the situation in the Brazilian Embassy in Honduras, where ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has been sheltering since Monday. The council condemned acts of intimidation and called on the de-facto Honduran authorities to stop harassing the embassy.

• Saturday, September 26th 2009 - 06:45 UTC

  US Congress report argues Zelaya’s ousting was “legal and constitutional”

  

  A report from the US Library of Congress legal branch released this week concluded that the ousting of elected Honduran president Manuel Zelaya was “legal and constitutional”.

• Saturday, September 26th 2009 - 06:42 UTC

  Itaipú agreement remains stalled; Lula da Silva blames Congress

  

  The coming electoral year makes it difficult for the Brazilian congress to approve in the short term the agreement reached with Paraguay referred to the surplus energy from the world’s largest operational hydroelectric dam Itaipú, signed last July by presidents Lula da Silva and Fernando Lugo.

• Friday, September 25th 2009 - 23:42 UTC

  Argentina, Chile and Uruguay lead broadband use in South America

  

  A recent survey by the Cisco Latin America Broadband Barometer showed that Chile has the highest percentage of broadband Internet connections in South America. The study found that 9.7% of Chile’s population has access to broadband.

• Friday, September 25th 2009 - 10:53 UTC

  Ecuador ready to purchase combat aircrafts from South Africa

  

  Ecuador is considering the purchase of 12 Atlas Cheetah C fighter bombers from South Africa, according to Defence minister Javier Ponce in an interview with Quito’s newspaper El Universal.

• Friday, September 25th 2009 - 10:49 UTC

  Zelaya’s activities in embassy triggers controversy in Brazil

  

  The activity displayed by ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya from the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa has triggered controversy in Brazil’s political establishment and uncertainty about diplomatic jargon such as the extent of the “refuge” condition.

• Friday, September 25th 2009 - 00:58 UTC

  MIT poverty investigation centre opens in Chile

  

  The Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) will open its new Latinamerican headquarters in Chile next Monday, Sept. 28. J-PAL is an organization that investigates poverty and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Economics.

• Friday, September 25th 2009 - 00:19 UTC

  Social Democracy Is Working In Brazil, Chile and Uruguay

  

  Amongst the different leftist governments in Latin America, there are new and rather strident populist regimes (Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador), which seem to grab all the attention.

• Thursday, September 24th 2009 - 11:45 UTC

  Chile’s fresh fruit exports hit by weak international markets

  

  Weak international markets led to a 6% drop in the value of Chile’s fresh fruit exports this past 2008/2009 season, reported Fedefruta President Rodrigo Echeverría this week in Santiago.

• Thursday, September 24th 2009 - 11:22 UTC

  Building Falklands/South America relationship playing rugby

  

  A proposed visit by a team of rugby players to the Falkland Islands, scheduled to arrive for a week long visit on December 12, has caused controversy in the Islands, reports the Penguin News.