Latin America

• Tuesday, April 13th 2010 - 02:27 UTC

  Chilean tribunal upholds controversial law in support of salmon industry

  

  Chilean salmon industry leaders celebrated the decision by the Constitutional Tribunal (TC) to reject a challenge to the newly passed “Ley de Pesca” (Fishing Law).

• Monday, April 12th 2010 - 23:12 UTC

  Castro brothers against opening Cuba, because that’s the end of them, claims Clinton

  

  The Cuban brothers Fidel and Raúl Castro do not want to normalize ties with Washington because they would “lose their excuses” for the country's lack of development and openness, said US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaking at the University of Louisville in Kentucky.

• Monday, April 12th 2010 - 05:20 UTC

  Chilean Army de-mining fields bordering the Magellan Strait

  

  Chile’s Army demining team announced last week the clearance of 5.799 mines in the north of Tierra del Fuego next to the so called Primera Angostura (First Narrow) of the Magellan Strait.

• Monday, April 12th 2010 - 05:18 UTC

  Living myth Fidel Castro, “a man with a superior intellect by heartless”

  

  Dissident Cuban neurosurgeon Hilda Molina, now living in Argentina, said in an interview that Fidel Castro once felt “a very marked inclination” towards her.

• Monday, April 12th 2010 - 05:13 UTC

  Kissinger accused of turning blind eye to Latam military regimes political killings

  

  Henry Kissinger while United States Secretary of State, halted a plan to warn South American military regimes against international political assassinations such as those involving the 1976 death in Washington of former Chilean minister Orlando Letelier, a document shows.

• Monday, April 12th 2010 - 05:09 UTC

  Hollywood stars support natural park conservation project in Ecuador

  

  Hollywood stars Leonardo Di Caprio and Glenn Close are willing to support an environment-conservation project in Ecuador that would prevent the extraction of 850 million barrels of oil from the Amazon.

• Saturday, April 10th 2010 - 05:07 UTC

  Bolivia, Venezuela, Ecuador, high risk areas for foot and mouth disease

  

  Bolivia, Venezuela and Ecuador are considered endemic foot and mouth disease regions according to the Pan-American FAM office, Panaftosa, which keeps track of the disease in the continent and has its main offices in Brazil.

• Friday, April 9th 2010 - 03:01 UTC

  Piñera and Cristina committed to boost bilateral relations and integration

  

  Chile and Argentina pledged Thursday to deepen bilateral relations with visiting president Sebastian Piñera saying that “the best of our relationship is yet to come” and Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner anticipating that “ideological differences” won’t be an impediment to keep advancing in cooperation and joint projects.

• Thursday, April 8th 2010 - 23:07 UTC

  Punta Arenas school children receive wood pieces instead of laptops

  

  Chile’s Ministry of Education has ordered an administrative and criminal investigation into the disappearance of laptops to be distributed among school children.

• Thursday, April 8th 2010 - 22:56 UTC

  Latam main ports’ containers activity contracted 6.8% in 2009

  

  The 2009 global slowdown had an impact on the activity of the main ports of Latinamerica and the Caribbean, points out the latest release from the United Nations Economic Commission for Latinamerica and the Caribbean, Cepal.