Latin America

Saturday, July 7th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
June inflation in Chile reaches 0.9%, the highest since 1991

The National Statistics Institute (INE) revealed this week that Chile's Consumer Price Index increased 0.9% in June. That figure is nearly double the 0.5% monthly government projection, and it revived calls for higher interest rates to calm inflation worries.
Saturday, July 7th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Bush administration wakes up to South America's reality

Several outstanding United States officials will be visiting “friendly” countries in South America to promote political and trade links in the framework of what has been described as the year of the “US commitment with Latinamerica”.
Saturday, July 7th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Panama to start work on Canal expansion

The first bid in a 5.2 billion-dollar project to widen the Panama Canal was issued on Friday to a Panamanian company, officials said.
Saturday, July 7th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
LAN holder, and conservative leader, fined for insider trading

Chile's securities regulator on Friday fined a leading right-wing politician and former presidential candidate for insider trading of LAN Airlines SA stock
Monday, July 2nd 2007 - 21:00 UTC
World Bank names new Latam country directors

Pamela Cox, World Bank Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean, announced the appointment of three new country directors for the region to head the units of Mexico and Colombia; the Andes: Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela; and the Southern Cone: Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay, effective July 1st, 2007.
Monday, July 2nd 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Colombian guerrilla accused of killing 11 lawmakers

Colombia's guerrilla movement FARC (Colombian revolutionary armed forces) are the “main culprits” for the death of the eleven local Deputies which they held captive, but so is Colombian president Alvaro Uribe, said on Sunday Melanie Betancourt, daughter of Ingrid Betancourt held at ransom by the Marxist oriented guerrillas.
Saturday, June 30th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
President Hugo Chavez calls for Belarus partnership

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called for a strategic partnership with Belarus Friday, calling his Belarusian counterpart a &quotbrother-in-arms&quot and lamenting the pressure he said the United States was putting on Minsk and Caracas
Saturday, June 30th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
If Brazilian right is stronger, we'll quit Mercosur, said Chavez

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said he's willing to withdraw his country's request to become full member of Mercosur because in his own words it's a mechanism “marked by capitalism and ferocious competence”, according to an official news release.
Friday, June 29th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Severe air pollution plagues Chilean cities

Cold winter conditions and the lack of wind are exacerbating air-quality problems in Santiago and Chillán; pollution in both cities has reached extreme levels.
Friday, June 29th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
IMF and World Bank cooperating “unconditionally” with Bolivia

The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are cooperating “unconditionally” with Bolivia's government after months of frosty relations, said President Evo Morales during his visit to Zurich, Switzerland.