Latin America

• Saturday, August 11th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Kirchner warns oil companies about investments

  

  Argentina is willing to invest heavily in the exploration and production of natural gas in Bolivia if the multinational companies, such as (Brazil's) Petrobras and (Spain's) Repsol-YPF, are not committed to the undertaking warned Argentine president Nestor Kirchner in Tarija.

• Friday, August 10th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Chile orders salmon farmers to kill fish infected with ISA

  

  Chile's National Fishing Service (SERNAPESCA) has instructed salmon farmers to kill fish found to be infected with the lethal Infectious Salmon Anemia (ISA), a highly contagious virus that was recently detected on several fish farms in Region X.

• Thursday, August 9th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Santiago covered in snow and Chilean farms knock out

  

  Chile's capital Santiago woke up Thursday to a very unusual sight: most of the city was covered by ten to fifteen centimeters of snow, becoming thicker towards the east and the mighty Andes cordillera.

• Thursday, August 9th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Ecuador/Venezuela plan largest oil refinery in Pacific coast

  Ecuador and Venezuela subscribed Thursday an agreement for the construction of the largest crude refinery in the South American Pacific coast with a capacity of 300.000 barrels per day.

• Tuesday, August 7th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Chilean Tourism Office resumes promotion in Europe and US

  

  Following three years of silence Chile is launching a final consumer media campaign to attract more tourists from Germany, United States, Brazil and the United Kingdom, revealed Oscar Santelices head of the Chilean Tourist Office, Sernatur.

• Tuesday, August 7th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Chilean meat industry stands to benefit most from FTA with Japan

  

  The Free Trade Agreement between Chile and Japan, which comes into effect next month, will increase Chilean exports to that Asian nation by as much as 400 million US dollars a year, according to newly released Chilean government estimates.

• Monday, August 6th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Chavez blames U.S. for blocking Venezuela's Mercosur bid

  

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday accused the United States of undermining the country's efforts to join the South American trade bloc Mercosur.

• Monday, August 6th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Latin America's richest man is worth 67.8 billion US dollars

  

  Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim, who is estimated by some calculations to be the world's richest man, said that he shook aside those comments and was more interested in making his business life compatible with his family and personal life.

• Sunday, August 5th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  UN food for victims of floods and deep freeze in S. America

  United Nations is helping to provide emergency food to nearly 100,000 people after the worst floods in decades in Colombia and the coldest weather in 30 years in Peru brought even more misery to over 1 million of Latin America's most impoverished inhabitants

• Friday, August 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Chilean Congress approves free trade agreement with Japan

  The Chilean Senate ratified this week the first free trade agreement with Japan and next week Chile is scheduled to begin a round of bilateral negotiations with Australia hoping to reach a similar free trade agreement.