Latin America

• Wednesday, July 20th 2011 - 09:22 UTC

  Reduced Chinese import makes and cheaper palm oil, see G-3 exports fall

  

  Soybean processing and exports from the US, Argentina and Brazil, the largest shippers, were below expectations in the second quarter on reduced Chinese imports and competition from palm oil, Oil World said in a Tuesday released report.

• Wednesday, July 20th 2011 - 07:01 UTC

  Chile’s tsunami victims protest violently demanding government honours aid promises

  

  Residents of Dichato, Chile, capped off a week of demonstrations with violent protests to demand the government revamp assistance efforts for victims of the tsunami that devastated the area in February 2010.

• Wednesday, July 20th 2011 - 06:47 UTC

  Punta Arenas supply route cut by snow storms; some food shortages feared

  

  Many trucks loaded with perishables and other food products heading for Punta Arenas extreme south of Chile are stranded in border crossings with Argentina blocked by the snow that has accumulated during the last storms.

• Wednesday, July 20th 2011 - 06:39 UTC

  Beware winter travellers: Chile’s airline overbooking “is permitted and habitual practice”

  

  If you’re planning to take a flight around Chile this winter, you may want to get to the airport early. Otherwise, you may discover that the airline overbooked your flight and there are no seats left.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 23:22 UTC

  Chavez will run for re-election next year, despite cancer: “there’s no Plan B”

  

  Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez will run for re-election next year despite his struggle with cancer said Finance Minister Jorge Giordani who underlined there’s no Plan B. Giordani’s statement came as the populist leader is in Cuba undergoing chemotherapy and twitted to his compatriots his “insurmountable optimism”.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 23:18 UTC

  End of story: family confirms Chile’s former leader Allende committed suicide in 1973

  

  Experts examining the remains of former Chilean leader Salvador Allende ruled out murder in the Marxist president's 1973 death, concluding that he committed suicide as soldiers involved in a coup burst into the presidential palace, the late leader's daughter said Tuesday.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 17:20 UTC

  New alternative route to Antarctica in Chile to cut fuel and sailing hours

  

  A new alternative commercial route to Antarctica from the Chilean city of Punta Arenas avoiding the Beagle Channel and saving several hours sailing has been opened by the Chilean navy with the establishment of a state of the art lighthouse.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 13:12 UTC

  Chile debates how to avoid repeat of the deadly ISA that devastated the salmon industry

  

  Fear of yet another outbreak of Infectious Salmon Anaemia (ISA) — an infectious viral disease found in Atlantic salmon — has sparked new debate in Chile’s salmon industry about what kind of regulatory safeguards are most needed.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 04:56 UTC

  Organized crime and authoritarian rulers, main threat for journalists in the Americas

  

  Organized crime and authoritarian governments have become the main enemies for freedom of expression in the Americas said Gonzalo Marroquin, president of the Inter American Press Association.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 01:26 UTC

  Chilean rescued miners file 16 million dollars compensation lawsuit

  

  Thirty-one of the 33 Chilean miners rescued last year from the bottom of the San José mine filed a lawsuit late last week against the government agency that was supposed to have monitored the safety of the mine. The 33 miners were miraculously rescues after surviving nearly two months underground.