Latin America

• Wednesday, December 17th 2014 - 12:22 UTC

  Latin America exports stagnant for third year running, says IDB

  

  Exports from Latin America will drop by about 1.4% in 2014, the first decline in exports since the collapse of international commerce during the 2009 financial crisis, according to a study by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

• Wednesday, December 17th 2014 - 03:46 UTC

  Cristina makes major castling on eve of Mercosur Summit

  

  Evo Morales, Governor Urribarri play football - New Intelligence boss appointed.

• Tuesday, December 16th 2014 - 20:54 UTC

  Uruguay's media law bill reaches Senate - Mujica warns of foreign sharks.

  

  President and journalists organisations deem LSCA necessary to avoid handing the media over to outside operators. They see no danger to freedom of speech in legislative project as it is.

• Saturday, December 13th 2014 - 19:19 UTC

  BBC airs advance of Top Gear Patagonia program to be shown December 27/28

  

  The controversial two-part episode of BBC's Top Gear filmed in Argentina will be shown on Saturday, December 27 and Sunday, December 28 on BBC Two at 8pm on both days. A few seconds advance of the show was aired this week in anticipation of the major launching.

• Saturday, December 13th 2014 - 04:37 UTC

  Brazil confident since pre-salt oil is profitable 'even at 60 dollars a barrel'

  

  The head of Brazil's National Petroleum Agency, Magda Chambriard said that the country's oil production projects remain 'robust' even as international prices for crude continue to tumble. She underlined that the pre-salt projects of Brazil along ist coast resist prices as low as 60 dollars a barrel.

• Saturday, December 13th 2014 - 04:07 UTC

  Argentina purchases four Russian multipurpose polar Supply-class tugs

  

  Argentina's ministry of Defense has signed an agreement for the purchase of four Russian-built multipurpose polar tugs, class NEFTEGAZ, at a total cost of just over eight million dollars.

• Saturday, December 13th 2014 - 03:55 UTC

  Tribute at sea at site of the Battle of the Falklands to honor British and German sailors

  

  Descendants of the three Admirals who led the Royal Navy and Imperial German Navy at the Battles of Coronel and the Falklands in 1914 have paid tribute at sea.

• Friday, December 12th 2014 - 22:55 UTC

  OAS will vote for new Secretary General on 18 March 2015: Insulza steps down after a decade

  

  Member states of the Organization of American States (OAS) agreed that the next Assistant Secretary General will be elected on the same day as the election of the next Secretary General, 18 March 2015. The initiative was approved during Wednesday's regular meetings by the OAS Permanent Council

• Friday, December 12th 2014 - 21:49 UTC

  Dutch oil platform leasing company cutting 11% of global workforce

  

  Dutch oil platform leasing company SBM Offshore is cutting 1,200 jobs, or slightly more than 11% of its global workforce, as part of a cost-saving program.

• Friday, December 12th 2014 - 21:07 UTC

  US/UK trained Brazil military in torture techniques; British were particularly sophisticated

  

  Officials from the United States and the United Kingdom spent years teaching members of the Brazilian military how to develop and improve their torture techniques during the country’s two-decade long dictatorship (1964/1985), it was confirmed this week by the National Truth Commission, CNV, report.