Latin America

• Saturday, September 4th 2010 - 05:33 UTC

  Fidel returns to talk where he first stirred fellow students 60 years ago

  

  Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, wearing his green military cap and clothing like the commandant of old, made his first speech before the Cuban public since falling ill in 2006, warning of the threat of nuclear war.

• Friday, September 3rd 2010 - 14:27 UTC

  Humpback whales in Chilean sanctuaries to be tracked with GPS

  

  Starting December, scientists from Chile’s Biomar Foundation will use GPS (Global Positioning System) to follow the movements of humpback whales in protected marine area Francisco Coloane, in the Magellan Strait. The whales are to be monitored for 12 months.

• Friday, September 3rd 2010 - 05:28 UTC

  In spite of the boom in exports, Latam’s decade report is far from encouraging

  

  Latin American and Caribbean exports are forecasted to grow 21.4% this year propped mainly by South American commodities according to the latest report from the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Cepal. However the overall balance of the last ten years is negative compared to the nineties and looks closer to the eighties.

• Friday, September 3rd 2010 - 05:20 UTC

  Peru and Xstrata sign 4.2 billion USD deal to develop copper mine

  

  Switzerland's Xstrata mining group and the Peruvian government Thursday signed a 4.2-billion-dollar deal to develop a copper mine in the southeastern Peru of the country, said President Alan Garcia.

• Friday, September 3rd 2010 - 03:15 UTC

  Chile ski resorts missed Brazilian tourist these winter holidays

  

  Brazilian tourists, who usually come to Chile to ski during the winter months, did not turn up as strongly as in years past, hurting the ski resorts, hotels and tourism in general this year.

• Thursday, September 2nd 2010 - 22:22 UTC

  Bolivia returns “privatized” stake in cement factory to local government

  

  Bolivian President Evo Morales announced Wednesday the expropriation and transfer to a provincial government of the 33% stake in the regional cement factory Fancesa.

• Thursday, September 2nd 2010 - 21:53 UTC

  Santos invites Brazil to list the FARC guerrilla as a “terrorist group”

  

  Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos said the best way Brazil can help to find a solution to the internal conflict of Colombia is by declaring the FARC guerrilla a “terrorist group”.

• Thursday, September 2nd 2010 - 21:21 UTC

  The 29 dollars ten pound “burger” that brings family and friends together

  

  The biggest hamburger in the Caribbean, a ten pound (4.5 kilos) family burger, is prepared and served with a secret sauce in Puerto Rico and for the very tempting price of 29 US dollars.

• Thursday, September 2nd 2010 - 07:37 UTC

  Rousseff promises, if elected, full support for Colombian president Santos

  

  Brazilian incumbent presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff held on Wednesday a private meeting with visiting Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos and promised if elected that Brazil would continue with its willingness to mediate with the Colombian FARC guerrillas, as long as Bogotá formally makes a request.

• Thursday, September 2nd 2010 - 07:30 UTC

  Venezuela buying out land and cattle belonging to the UK Vestey family

  

  Venezuela will buy a group of large farms and thousands of cattle from a British company announced President Hugo Chavez as part of his populist drive to redistribute land among the country’s peasants.