Latin America

• Monday, December 27th 2010 - 08:46 UTC

  European vehicles for the Dakar Argentina-Chile Rally undergo inspection

  

  The Grande Brasile has arrived at Delta Rock, where the European vehicles participating in the 2011 Dakar Argentina-Chile Rally were unloaded during the night.

• Monday, December 27th 2010 - 08:20 UTC

  Chilean Senate drafts bill to combat illegal fishing in Antarctic convergence area

  

  The Chilean Senate Committee on Fisheries approved the project that modifies the Fisheries Law and severe establishes penalties for illegal catches in the Antarctic convergence area. The next step is a vote on the floor that seems secured given the committee’s outcome.

• Monday, December 27th 2010 - 08:15 UTC

  Seafood delicacy with over 10.000 years of history, Chilean abalone

  

  A 19-year investigation by two Chilean researchers confirms that Chilean abalone, known locally as “locos,” have been a staple in the diet for people living near the coasts in this part of the world for at least the past 10,400 years.

• Monday, December 27th 2010 - 07:51 UTC

  Ecuador, the latest Latinamerican country to recognize a free sovereign Palestine

  

  The Ecuadorean government is the latest in Latin American to recognize Palestine as a sovereign state. The Foreign Ministry said in a statement that President Rafael Correa officially recognized Palestine on Friday as “free and independent, with its borders since 1967” before the Israeli occupation.

• Saturday, December 25th 2010 - 08:28 UTC

  Mujica is an ‘emblematic figure and a great asset’ of Uruguay’s foreign policy

  

  President Jose Mujica is an “emblematic” figure at regional level and is one of the great assets of Uruguay’s foreign policy, said Foreign Affairs minister Luis Almagro on making a review of the first ten months of the administration.

• Thursday, December 23rd 2010 - 08:04 UTC

  Bolivia formalizes recognition of sovereign Palestine state with pre-1967 borders

  

  Bolivia formally recognized Palestine as an independent and sovereign state within the 1967 borders, Bolivian President Evo Morales announced Wednesday. Reports last week indicated that such a decision was imminent

• Wednesday, December 22nd 2010 - 05:24 UTC

  President Chavez extends broadcast media clamp to the internet

  

  Venezuelan lawmakers have imposed broadcast-type regulations on the internet, barring some types of online messages under measures that opponents say are a threat to freedom of speech.

• Tuesday, December 21st 2010 - 20:18 UTC

  LAN confirms Latam record order for 50 medium-hauls A320 airliners

  

  European aircraft manufacturer Airbus said Tuesday it had received a firm order from Chilean carrier LAN for 50 medium-haul A320 airliners, which at catalogue prices would be worth more than 4 billion dollars. Airbus said the LAN commitment was the manufacturer's largest single aircraft order ever recorded in Latin America.

• Tuesday, December 21st 2010 - 19:40 UTC

  Chile’s government determined to make oil company ENAP “economically viable”

  

  Chile's government wants to make state-owned oil and gas company Empresa Nacional del Petroleo SA, (ENAP) “economically viable” through a management overhaul and streamlining of production.

• Tuesday, December 21st 2010 - 18:11 UTC

  Chile’s state oil company looking for associates to drill in Tierra del Fuego

  

  Chile's state oil firm ENAP is seeking joint ventures with foreign companies to explore for crude and gas at five blocks in the country's extreme south region and has invited over twenty corporations to participate, announced the company.