Venezuela kicked off celebrations marking 200 years of struggle for independence with an impressive several hour long military parade. Recently-acquired Chinese K-8 planes and Russian Sukhoi-30 fighter aircraft swooped through the sky during a lavish military parade in Caracas, as soldiers from Algeria, Belarus, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Cuba, Libya, Nicaragua and Russia joined those on the ground.
Many of the world’s largest investments in the field of astronomy can be found in Chile for the same reasons that Cerro Armazones, in the Antofagasta region, may become home to a new telescope that would produce images 15 times shaper than the Hubble telescope.
Mexican and German researchers have found the fossil of a giant squid that lived in northern Mexico about 100 million years ago, the daily La Jornada reported Friday.
Colombian presidential candidates Juan Manuel Santos and Antanas Mockus have increased their lead in the run-up to the May 30 balloting, a new poll released Thursday revealed.
The Inter-American Development Bank, IDB, announced Friday its intention to increase its financing for renewable energy and climate-related projects to 3 billion US dollars a year by 2012.
Increased external financing requirements to cover reconstruction costs triggered by the earthquake and tsunami of February 27 will shift Chile’s external position from capital exporter in 2009 (largely the result of its dynamic private pension system) to capital importer this year and next, according to the Institute of International Finance, IIF.
Foreign capital inflow to Latinamerica should increase by 21% this year over 2009 particularly because of Brazil and Mexico anticipates the Institute of International Finance, the world’s largest bankers’ association.
Corruption at the highest levels of government - not the meddling of a small band of dissidents - is the greatest threat to Cuba's communist system, a leading academic said in a highly unusual opinion posted Thursday on a state Web site.
Ecuador president Rafael Correa announced changes in the military command and further cabinet reshuffling as part of the restructuring of his administration’s team for the next three years.
Ecuadorean Foreign Affairs minister Ricardo Patiño apologized to Uruguay for having stated that the administration of President Jose Mujica would support the nomination of former Argentine president Nestor Kirchner as chairman or the Union of South American nations, Unasur.