Latin America

• Monday, August 23rd 2010 - 03:41 UTC

  Chile celebrates contact with trapped miners; rescue “will take months”

  

  Thirty-three miners who have been trapped underground in a northern Chile mine for the past 17 days are all alive, President Sebastian Piñera announced Sunday. Rescuers heard hammering noises when they sent a new probe into the mine.

• Sunday, August 22nd 2010 - 02:58 UTC

  Expanding Alliances in the 21st Century: The U.S. and Brazil Unite to Address Matters of National Security

  The recent signing of a new defense agreement between the Western hemisphere’s two dominant powers, Brazil and the United States, has brought about an important change to Latin America’s relations with the U.S. On April 12, 2010, Brazil took another step to enhance its geopolitical influence by signing the U.S.-Brazil Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA).

• Saturday, August 21st 2010 - 15:22 UTC

  More government land to Cuban small farmers to help boost food production

  

  The Cuban government has awarded in usufruct over a million hectares to small farmers one of the main reforms promoted by President Raúl Castro to help the country’s economy recover from its deep recession and cut the huge imported food bill that conditions Cuban international reserves.

• Saturday, August 21st 2010 - 13:39 UTC

  Chile questioned over slow implementation of Indigenous Peoples convention

  

  International Labour Organization (ILO) Standards Director Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry is meeting in the Chilean city of Temuco this week with Araucanía Region (IX) officials to discuss the lack of progress in implementing the ILO’s Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention.

• Friday, August 20th 2010 - 02:49 UTC

  Chile, Brazil, Bolivia to open next November Mercosur bi-oceanic corridor

  

  Presidents from Chile, Brazil and Bolivia will be inaugurating next November a Mercosur bi-oceanic corridor that will link the three countries, connecting the Atlantic with the Pacific oceans.

• Friday, August 20th 2010 - 02:36 UTC

  A wealthy nation made up mostly of poor people overtaking Japan?

  

  Where world economy is concerned, August 16, 2010 will go down history as a significant date. On this day, Japan quietly ceded to China the coveted title as the world's second largest economy which it had held for four decades.

• Thursday, August 19th 2010 - 11:24 UTC

  Gigantic (US made) Chilean flag for bicentennial celebrations

  

  A gigantic Chilean flag, 18 meters wide and 27 meters long, is on its way to Chile from the United States.

• Thursday, August 19th 2010 - 06:00 UTC

  National Geographic wants to protect Chilean pristine marine life Island

  

  Chile’s Salas y Gómez Island has caught the attention of The National Geographic Society as one of the most pristine marine sites in the world.

• Thursday, August 19th 2010 - 03:11 UTC

  Latam’s business climate in July reached highest level in a decade

  

  Business climate in Latin America reached in July its highest level in a decade according to the joint report from Brazil’s Getulio Vargas Foundation and Germany’s Economic Research Institute (IFO) from the University of Munich.

• Thursday, August 19th 2010 - 02:42 UTC

  Peruvian court revokes parole of US woman linked to terrorist group

  

  A court in Peru has revoked parole for a US woman who was imprisoned for aiding a left-wing terrorist group. Lori Berenson turned herself into police after judges ordered that she be sent back to prison to finish the last five years of her 20-year sentence