As anticipated Colombia’s Juan Manuel Santos won on Sunday the country’s presidential runoff by a landslide, persuading voters with a pledge to continue Alvaro Uribe’s policies, the most popular leader of the country in the last five decades.
United Nations special rapporteur on freedom of expression called on Venezuela to withdraw the arrest warrant against the head of the opposition Globovision television network, declaring that it had no right to silence critics.
US based CITGO Petroleum Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Venezuela's state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA), is coming to market with a 7 year bond and offering to pay 11.75% to 12% on the debt.
Cuban Vice President Ramiro Valdes issued a call to “step up” energy-saving measures on the island in the face of the increase in electricity use in recent months, official Communist Party daily Granma said Thursday.
Brazil and Peru signed several accords which strengthened regional integration with particular emphasis on energy. The event followed a meeting between Presidents Lula da Silva and Alan Garcia met in Manaus, state of Amazon.
Salmon farms in Chile are a worse threat to the environment than originally thought following on unexpected results from a German scientific research team studying communications among whales in the southern Pacific along Chilean Patagonia.
Peru forecasts a liquid hydrocarbons production of half a million barrels per day in five years time, said Daniel Saba head of Perupetro the country’s company that awards and supervises all oil and gas contracts.
Adolfo Zaldívar, the president of Chile’s Independent Regional Party (PRI), is now Chile’s new ambassador to Argentina.
The number of Chileans travelling to Europe is up sharply, thanks to the lower value of the Euro – down 9.74% between January and February of this year – which makes travel to Europe more attractive.
The most expensive residential buildings per square meter in Chile are located in the Metropolitan Region’s boroughs of Las Condes and Vitacura. In these areas, properties prices are double that of other boroughs such as Ñuñoa and downtown Santiago.