Latin America

• Friday, May 18th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Cuba to spend $185 million for tourism

  

  Cuba says it will spend about $185 million to upgrade more than 200 resorts, golf courses, marinas and other facilities in a bid to reverse a dip in tourism to the island.

• Friday, May 18th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Chilean salmon and trout exports up 19% in first quarter

  Chile's salmon and trout exports jumped 19% in the first quarter of 2007, compared to the same period a year ago totaling 713 million US dollars according to the latest release from the Chilean Salmon Industry, SalmonChile.

• Wednesday, May 16th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Book on British contribution to Magallanes development

  A book on the British migration contribution to the development of Magallanes region in the extreme south of Chile, was formally presented this week in Valaparaíso by the author, barrister and historian Mateo Martinic.

• Monday, May 14th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Yosemite and Torres del Paine twinning agreement

  

  California's Yosemite and Chile's Torres del Paine national parks administrators visited this week Punta Arenas and met with local authorities in the framework of the recently signed twinning agreement with the purpose of promoting sustainable tourism.

• Monday, May 14th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Cable or satellite option for censored Venezuelan TV station

  

  Venezuela's Minister of Communication and Information William Lara said private television station RCTV would be able to broadcast on cable or satellite following May 27, the date when its broadcast license to operate in open free radio frequency expires.

• Monday, May 14th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Ecuador's Correa, the continent's leader with most support

  

  Ecuador's president Rafael Correa is the Latinamerican leader with most support in the continent while his counterpart in Guatemala Oscar Berger ranks in the opposite end, according to a report published by the Mexican public opinion consultants Mitofsky.

• Sunday, May 13th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Happy Mother's Day!

  

  Today is Mother's Day in much of Latin America, and scattered families are displaying their devotion. Forget the potted geranium. They're sending their mothers appliances or cold cash with the flowers and greeting cards.

• Sunday, May 13th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Chile's tourism policy is not massive but environment friendly

  

  Growth of the tourism industry must be in parallel with a sustainable environment development which means Chile is not interested in massive tourism but rather in visitors who have a special interest in nature and wildlife, admitted the country's Director of the Tourism Office, Sernatur, Oscar Santelices.

• Friday, May 11th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Chile to become Microsoft regional centre

  

  Microsoft announced Wednesday that Santiago's Universidad Catolica de Chile (UC) will be the headquarters for the new Federation of Latin-American Universities for Innovation.

• Friday, May 11th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  DAP incorporates new helicopter for oil rig activities

  

  Punta Arenas Aerovias DAP incorporated a refurbished helicopter to its charter fleet of aircrafts and choppers which operate in the extreme south of Chile and once flew regularly to the Falkland Islands.