Latin America

• Tuesday, April 30th 2013 - 06:44 UTC

  Antarctica and Punta Arenas historic links underlined in Chilean tourist guide

  

  A complete Antarctica tourist guide, in English and Spanish was launched by the Chilean Antarctic Institute to promote the polar identity and heritage of over fifty sites in the Punta Arenas area, extreme south of Chile and the Magellan strait.

• Monday, April 29th 2013 - 20:08 UTC

  Argentine minister forecasts solid victory in October election; polls say the contrary

  

  Argentina’s Federal Planning minister Julio de Vido called on Buenos Aires province mayors to defend the Cristina Fernandez government model and predicted a solid victory in the mid term legislative elections of next October.

• Monday, April 29th 2013 - 06:30 UTC

  Brazil government leader in online censorship requests, says Google Transparency Report

  

  Brazil has a big lead as the country with the most government requests to remove online content by judicial order in the latest Google Transparency Report, released last week. In the period between July and December 2012, the search giant received 1,461 court-ordered requests from governments around the world to remove content, including YouTube videos and search results, with nearly 43% of them coming from Brazilian authorities.

• Monday, April 29th 2013 - 06:27 UTC

  Argentina deploys major diplomatic offensive in the Grand Caribbean

  

  Argentina attended the fifth Caribbean states leaders’ summit held in Haiti April 23/26 as an observer but with a major delegation that included Foreign Affairs Secretary Ambassador Eduardo Zuaín, the different ambassadors in the region plus staff from the Political and Coperation desks.

• Monday, April 29th 2013 - 06:20 UTC

  The Lancet Oncology says Latam new life-style creating a cancer epidemic

  

  Latin America's growing prosperity is fuelling a cancer epidemic that threatens to overwhelm the region unless governments take urgent preventive action, a study warned.

• Saturday, April 27th 2013 - 04:44 UTC

  Uruguayans hold 7.18bn in overseas deposits, according to BIS

  

  Deposits of Uruguayans in overseas banks experienced a drop in the last quarter of 2012, the second consecutive fall (3%), and now stand at 7.18bn dollars according to preliminary data released by the Bank for International Settlements.

• Friday, April 26th 2013 - 08:00 UTC

  President Rousseff calls on Vale to dialogue with Argentine authorities

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff said during a joint conference with her Argentine peer Cristina Fernández at Government House in Buenos Aires that she was certain the Vale mining company “would find a way to reach an agreement with the Argentine authorities” on the suspended project.

• Friday, April 26th 2013 - 07:46 UTC

  Falkland Islands’ lawmakers in a round of European visits to inform on referendum results

  

  A delegation of Falkland Islands lawmakers made a round of visits to European capitals and the European Union to inform on the recent referendum results in which an overwhelming turnout and vote indisputably decided the Islands wanted to remain as an Overseas Territory.

• Friday, April 26th 2013 - 01:36 UTC

  Argentines in ‘expectations panic’ paid a record 9.20 Pesos for the US dollar

  

  The US dollar in Argentina’s parallel or ‘blue’ market continued to soar on Thursday reaching a new record high of 9.16 and 9.20 Pesos buying and selling price which over twenty cents more than on Wednesday.

• Thursday, April 25th 2013 - 22:39 UTC

  Barrick Gold considering suspension of 8.5bn mine development in the Andes

  

  Canada’s Barrick Gold Corp making a painful adjustment to a sustained slump in bullion prices, reported progress in controlling costs and said it planned further cuts in capital spending.