Latin America

• Sunday, September 12th 2010 - 07:29 UTC

  A view from The Economist: ‘US and Latin America, nobody’s backyard’

  

  Under the heading of “The United States and Latin America: Nobody’s backyard”, The Economist publishes one of its leading articles, supported by special pieces dedicated to the region’s potentialities, recent successes and shortcomings, mainly triumphalism and complacency.

• Sunday, September 12th 2010 - 07:12 UTC

  Two million people have visited Chile’s pavilion at the Shanghai Expo

  

  Lu Hongxiang from Xin Xiang, China was recently the 2 millionth visitor at the Chilean pavilion at the Shanghai Expo that runs from May 1 to Oct 31, 2010.

• Sunday, September 12th 2010 - 07:06 UTC

  Salmon industry in Magallanes planning to boost output to 80.000 tons by 2020

  

  Magallanes region in the extreme south of Chile should see farmed-salmon production jump from 6.000 tons to 80.000 tons in a decade, according to Drago Covacich, general manager of Nova Austral.

• Saturday, September 11th 2010 - 23:02 UTC

  Twenty tons of drilling shafts trucked 4.100 km to help rescue Chilean miners

  

  Three trucks transporting special shafts for drilling equipment to be used in the rescue of the 33 miners trapped 700 metres underground in northern Chile, left from Punta Arenas in the extreme south of Chile.

• Saturday, September 11th 2010 - 17:52 UTC

  Kirchner praises Chilean Senate approval of Unasur Constitutive Treaty

  

  Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) Secretary-General, Néstor Kirchner, celebrated the Chilean Senate's approval of the regional organization's Constitutive Treaty and highlighted the “compromise” of Chile with the “unity of South America.”

• Saturday, September 11th 2010 - 17:50 UTC

  Chile’s Catholic willing to help negotiate in Mapuche hunger strike

  

  The Chilean Catholic Church has agreed to help negotiate an end to nearly two-month long hunger strike by indigenous Mapuche prisoners, following an assistance request earlier this week from President Sebastián Piñera

• Saturday, September 11th 2010 - 17:47 UTC

  Fidel Castro’s “no but yes”: comments on Cuban model were “misinterpreted”

  

  Fidel Castro said his recent comment that communist-led Cuba's economic model does not work was misunderstood, and that what he really meant was capitalism does not work.

• Saturday, September 11th 2010 - 17:43 UTC

  Mercosur and Unasur “more effective” for South America than OAS

  

  Mercosur and Unasur (Union of South American Nations) can be “more effective” than OAS (Organization of American States) in addressing issues of South American countries, said Brazilian Foreign Secretary Celso Amorim currently in Switzerland for a conference on international security.

• Friday, September 10th 2010 - 04:20 UTC

  Chilean top farm lobbyist offered position as ambassador to China

  

  Luis Schmidt, former president of the National Society of Agriculture (SNA) and the Chilean Fruit Growers Association (Fedefruta), has been offered the position of the Chilean Ambassador to China.

• Friday, September 10th 2010 - 02:33 UTC

  Venezuela food prices drop in August ahead of crucial congressional election

  

  Venezuela reported the slowest monthly inflation of the year in August after the government moved to tackle sporadic food shortages by importing more goods ahead of the September 26 congressional elections.