Latin America

• Sunday, January 4th 2015 - 06:34 UTC

  Prolonged extreme droughts could help to explain collapse of Mayan civilization

  

  The mysterious collapse of the ancient Mayan civilization has been attributed to a variety of factors, most notably overhunting, deforestation, and a catastrophic peasant uprising. However the theory of prolonged extreme drought has been gaining ground among the scientific community in recent years regarding the Mayan demise.

• Saturday, January 3rd 2015 - 06:32 UTC

  Mujica defends Brazilian leadership in the region and called for strong unity

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica defended Brazil's leadership in helping Latin America carve a place and advance in the world context, but at the same time underlined that even when Brazil seems large to its neighbors, together with the rest of the countries, the region is still small in global terms.

• Saturday, January 3rd 2015 - 06:07 UTC

  Panama Canal planning major transshipment port on the Pacific entrance

  

  The Panama Canal Board of Directors this week formally approved the development and construction of a transshipment port in Panama’s Corozal region. Upon completion, the port will have the capacity to handle more than five million TEUs within a 120-hectare area at the Canal’s entrance to the Pacific. The project is now awaiting the final step for approval from Panama’s National Assembly.

• Saturday, January 3rd 2015 - 05:43 UTC

  We have so much to learn from Cuba

  

  By Robert F Kennedy Jr. (*) - In early December, President Barack Obama announced the restoration of diplomatic relations with Cuba after more than five decades of a misguided policy which my uncle, John F. Kennedy, and my father, Robert F. Kennedy, had been responsible for enforcing after the U.S. embargo against the country was first implemented in October 1960 by the Eisenhower administration.

• Wednesday, December 31st 2014 - 02:33 UTC

  Legal framework to restructure sovereign debts receives strong UN boost

  

  The U.N. General Assembly approved this week the financing of a plan to develop a new legal framework to restructure national debts, a move aimed at avoiding the kind of speculative action that led Argentina to a second default.

• Wednesday, December 31st 2014 - 00:46 UTC

  Mujica and Vazquez will attend Rousseff's inauguration on January first

  

  Uruguay's president Jose Mujica and elected president Tabare Vazquez will attend the inauguration, on January first, of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff second consecutive mandate in Brasilia. The two leaders received an official invitation from the Rousseff administration according to Uruguay's official media.

• Tuesday, December 30th 2014 - 09:49 UTC

  Brazil: Dilma facing new challenges for her second term in office

  

  Analysts agree fiscal austerity and economic growth will be among the new government's priorities.

• Monday, December 29th 2014 - 07:57 UTC

  YPFB-Andina awarded exploration rights in Santa Cruz areas

  

  Bolivia's export 6.3 % higher than despite drop in gas volumes. Economic growth, foreign investment continue

• Saturday, December 27th 2014 - 08:59 UTC

  FARC release captured Colombian soldier in 'gesture of peace'

  

  Wounded combatant handed over to International Red Cross, Cuban and Norwegian dignataries

• Friday, December 26th 2014 - 07:43 UTC

  Bolivian Oil Company CEO on sick leave, has cancer

  

  President Evo Morales to coordinate operations with company executive in the meantime. Vice President Garcia Linera makes the announcement regarding 'Comrade' Villegas