Latin America

• Friday, October 1st 2010 - 04:56 UTC

  Piñera promises actions to weaken the Chilean peso in next year’s budget

  

  Chilean president Sebastian Piñera on Thursday reiterated that next year's budget would aim to ease a rapidly appreciating currency that is hurting the country’s exporters.

• Thursday, September 30th 2010 - 23:41 UTC

  Families of trapped Chilean miners file 29 million USD suit in damages

  

  Families of 29 of the 33 workers trapped in a collapsed Chilean mine Thursday filed suit against their employer, seeking 29 million dollars in damages, an adviser to the families said.

• Thursday, September 30th 2010 - 19:55 UTC

  Ecuadorean president mobbed and surrounded by protesting rank and file police

  

  Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said he is the target of a coup attempt after police and soldiers protesting wage cuts assaulted him Thursday during a demonstration in the capital Quito. The mutinous forces also cut air traffic at the capital’s main airport.

• Thursday, September 30th 2010 - 04:46 UTC

  Peru, Chile, Colombia integrate stock-exchange operations

  

  Integrated Peruvian, Chilean and Colombian stock-exchange operations are set to begin November 22 announced the president of Peru's stock exchange Roberto Hoyle who said that the integration would attract investors and increase competitiveness .“The integration will be an important step to increasing attractiveness and competitiveness, as well as greater capital flows,” said Hoyle.

• Thursday, September 30th 2010 - 02:49 UTC

  Chilean exporters want government support to face weakening US dollar

  

  Chilean exporters associations of farmers and manufacturers announced they will be requesting government intervention in the foreign exchange market because the “cheap” dollar is threatening their competitiveness edge and profits.

• Thursday, September 30th 2010 - 00:54 UTC

  Chavez two seats short to be granted special decree powers avoiding parliament

  

  President Hugo Chávez's Venezuela’s United Socialist party just beat a newly united opposition bloc for the popular vote at Sunday’s legislative election that split the country down the middle, final official results showed.

• Wednesday, September 29th 2010 - 19:36 UTC

  At least 30 Latam journalists killed doing their job in nine months

  

  At least 90 journalists (30 in Latinamerica) have been killed doing their job so far this year, a 25% increase on the same period of 2009, the media watchdog Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) said this week. PEC has also called on the UN Humans Rights Council to urgently take up the matter.

• Wednesday, September 29th 2010 - 19:31 UTC

  The 34 hunger striker Mapuches in Chile has become world news

  

  Chile’s government said this week it will be impossible to meet demands by 34 Mapuche hunger strikers that all three branches of Chile’s government meet together to resolve the on-going hunger strike.

• Wednesday, September 29th 2010 - 19:27 UTC

  Chilean government says trapped miners could be out by mid-October

  

  While rescuers have insisted that the 33 Chilean trapped miners at San Jose mine will be evacuated in early November, the government has suggested that the rescue will most likely be as early as mid-October.

• Wednesday, September 29th 2010 - 19:15 UTC

  Latam forecasted to grow 5.5% to 6% this year, spurred by Mercosur members

  

  World Bank's Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean Augusto de la Torre said that the Latin American economy will grow between 5.5 and 6% this year spurred mostly by a good performance from Mercosur members.