The role of the Yuan as an international currency is “inevitable” and it is most feasible that Latin American countries will begin accumulating foreign exchange reserves in that currency forecasted an Argentine expert in foreign relations.
With China's National Day hours away, (October first), countries across Latin America pledged to further deepen ties with China, one of their biggest trade partners.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Thursday that his latest medical checks have been stellar and ridiculed rumors that his health might have taken a turn for the worse. The press conference took place at the presidential palace.
Cuba is closing its once powerful Sugar Ministry in favour of a state holding company charged with pulling the sector out of a long decline, official media announced on Thursday.
Chilean students and government leaders met Thursday in an angry atmosphere for long-awaited negotiations on the country’s education reform while tens of thousands of protesters challenged police in the streets of Santiago.
Bolivian demonstrators opposed to the construction of a road in the Amazon vowed on Wednesday to resume a month-long protest march that has become a major challenge to leftist President Evo Morales.
Ecuador has been announced as a major sponsor and exhibitor of the National Chocolate Week in London, the UK’s biggest and most indulgent chocolate celebration.
Cuba authorized auto sales among individuals Wednesday, easing a 50-year-old ban that has helped make the Castro brothers-ruled island a living museum of vintage cars.
US President Barack Obama suggested that acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Roberta Jacobson, be ratified in office, the White House announced.
A poll from the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Reality (CERC) released Tuesday confirmed that Chile’s beleaguered President Sebastián Piñera continues to lose popular support.