Latin America

• 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

• Friday, December 26th 2014 - 07:30 UTC

  Nicaragua: civic organisations want protesters freed, 'Chinese invaders' out

  

  Expropriation law upsets peasants, environmentalists. 30 arrested nationwide. President Daniel Ortega dubbed a 'traitor'.

• Friday, December 26th 2014 - 06:55 UTC

  FARC Christmas message calls for end to military operations against them

  

  The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) sent a Christmas message to President Juan Manuel Santos and military officers demanding that all military operations against them be stopped. Wounded soldier to be released.