Latin America

• Saturday, December 10th 2011 - 05:55 UTC

  Argentina and Brazil agree to jointly promote trade and manufacturing

  

  Argentina and Brazil agreed on Friday to “increase” in the “short term” regional trade in a shared strategy to address the consequences of the global crisis. The commitment was endorsed by Argentina’ Industry minister Debora Giorgi and her Brazilian counterpart Fernando Pimentel.

• Saturday, December 10th 2011 - 05:52 UTC

  IMF praise for Uruguay but warns about the need of labour flexibility

  

  The IMF recommended Uruguay greater flexibility in the management of macroeconomic policy, ahead of unexpected changes in the international scenario.

• Saturday, December 10th 2011 - 00:46 UTC

  Five leaders miss CFK inauguration ceremony to be aired live in Youtube

  

  The presidents of Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Mexico, Hugo Chávez, Juan Manuel Santos, Ollanta Humala, Rafael Correa and Felipe Calderón have cancelled their trips to Buenos Aires and won’t attend President Cristina Fernández inauguration ceremony on Saturday.

• Friday, December 9th 2011 - 07:12 UTC

  Euro rescue deal limited to 17-EU countries and with a March deadline

  

  Attempts to rescue the Euro will focus on a deal among the 17 nations that use the single currency, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said early Friday.

• Friday, December 9th 2011 - 06:05 UTC

  Dakar rally 2012 takes off from the Atlantic and ends in Peru on the Pacific

  

  Dakar Rally chief Etienne Lavigne said that the next edition of the competition which takes off from Mar del Plata, Argentina next January first and ends in Lima, Peru, fifteen days later, is the most renewed and challenging version since the rally moved to South America in 2008.

• Thursday, December 8th 2011 - 22:28 UTC

  Mexico - Rising Natural Gas Superstate?

  

  Americans looking south of the Rio Grande tend to forget, if they ever knew, that Mexico is, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, now America's second largest source of imports.

• Thursday, December 8th 2011 - 06:26 UTC

  Mexican intelligence foils plan for one of Gaddafi’s son to enter the country

  

  Mexico prevented the entry of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's son Saadi to the country, authorities said on Wednesday.

• Wednesday, December 7th 2011 - 22:14 UTC

  China will target trade with Latam in 2012 to compensate drop with EU and US

  

  China will attempt to counterbalance the drop in exports to the European Union and the United States concentrating in emerging markets such as Latin America and Asia, said on Wednesday Wang Shouwen, head of International Trade from the Beijing Ministry of Trade.

• Wednesday, December 7th 2011 - 22:11 UTC

  China and Bolivia agree on closer military cooperation and high level exchanges

  

  China and Bolivia have agreed to strengthen military relations which are a continuation of the “excellent links in other fields”, according to an official press release in Beijing

• Wednesday, December 7th 2011 - 22:03 UTC

  Wing of Peru’s terrorist group Shinning Path admits defeat and wants peace talks

  

  ”Comrade Artemio” head of one of the two remnant groups of the Peruvian armed terrorist Shinning Path movement admitted defeat and called on the government in Lima to begin a dialogue process to reach a peace accord.