Latin America

• Saturday, November 17th 2012 - 06:30 UTC

  Spain and Portugal call for Latam business opportunities and investment

  

  Spain and Portugal sought help from their former Latin American colonies to rescue them from economic crisis through a new wave of trade and investment across the Atlantic Ocean.

• Friday, November 16th 2012 - 06:11 UTC

  Rajoy would have liked Cristina Fernandez to have attended the summit

  

  Spanish President Mariano Rajoy stated that he “would have liked” his Argentine counterpart, President Cristina Fernández to have attended the XXIIth Ibero-American summit, starting Friday in Cádiz.

• Friday, November 16th 2012 - 05:47 UTC

  Battered Spain hosts Ibero-America summit pinning hopes in its success

  

  The XXII Ibero-American summit which takes off Friday in the city of Cadiz will be focused on the Euro zone crisis and the need to boost investments in Latin America of which Spain can become the “vertebrate axis” said Spanish Foreign minister Jose García Margallo.

• Friday, November 16th 2012 - 04:22 UTC

  Cameron and Piñera discuss Falklands, Antarctic cooperation and confirm close links

  

  Visiting Chilean president Sabastian Piñera and PM David Cameron reaffirmed the two countries long standing close relations, pledged to increase trade and acknowledged their views on the Falkland Islands and the coming referendum during a meeting on Thursday at 10 Downing Street.

• Friday, November 16th 2012 - 04:12 UTC

  UK opens new embassy in El Salvador to increase engagement with Latam

  

  The United Kingdom will continue to increase engagement with Latin America pledged Foreign Office Minister Hugo Swire during the official opening Thursday of the UK new embassy in El Salvador.

• Friday, November 16th 2012 - 01:52 UTC

  Africa and Latin America Still Fight Vulture Funds

  

  By Hector Timerman - Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman underlined Argentina’s struggle against paying ‘vulture funds’ in an article written for US newspaper Huffington Post about how Latin American and Africa are affected by these funds.

• Thursday, November 15th 2012 - 19:00 UTC

  Uruguayan industry criticizes imports policy, labour costs and Mercosur

  

  Uruguay’ Chamber of Industries, CIU, criticized the ‘indiscriminate’ influx of foreign goods, labour costs and Mercosur, and called on government to change the focus of its policies towards manufacturing underscoring that the domestic market represents 55% of industries’ GDP.

• Thursday, November 15th 2012 - 02:08 UTC

  Uruguayan populist president Jose Mujica, as described by BBC

  

  It's a common grumble that politicians' lifestyles are far removed from those of their electorate. Not so in Uruguay. Meet the president - who lives on a ramshackle farm and gives away most of his pay.

• Wednesday, November 14th 2012 - 07:10 UTC

  An overwhelming UN Assembly calls on the US to lift trade embargo on Cuba

  

  Repeating an annual ritual, the UN General Assembly called on Tuesday for the United States to lift its trade embargo against Cuba, whose foreign minister said the blockade against the country was tantamount to “genocide”.

• Tuesday, November 13th 2012 - 23:07 UTC

  Colombia/FARC peace talks delayed until Monday on “technical details”

  

  Peace talks between Colombia's government and FARC rebels scheduled to start in Cuba this week will be delayed until Monday so negotiators can work on “technical” details, both sides said on Tuesday.