The Bicentennial Regatta arrived over the weekend to Punta Arenas, extreme south of Chile after having crossed the Strait of Magellan.
A delegation of Brazilian-Japanese tour operators and tourism agencies spent a week in Punta Arenas, guests of Chile’s Tourism Office with the purpose of promoting Chilean Patagonia among the strong and high income Asian community in Brazil.
One of the leaders of the Argentine opposition warned that it would be tragedy for the Americas if the ex President Néstor Kirchner is designated as General Secretary of the South American Nations Union (Unasur).
United Kingdom companies involved in some of the most cutting edge technology in the defence and security sectors are currently in Santiago for the Air and space air exhibition, FIDAE.
Sweden tops the rankings of The Global Information Technology Report 2009-2010, released this week for the ninth consecutive year by the World Economic Forum.
Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner met Friday with her Bolivian counterpart Evo Morales and signed a deal that expands until 2026 the current gas-sharing bilateral agreement, which is expected to supply the Argentine Northeast.
The gap between the rich and poor in Latinamerica has not ceased to increase in the last decades and currently 20% of the wealthiest hold 56.9% of resources, while the region’s main cities host 127 million people, according to the latest report from United Nations-Habitat.
President Hugo Chavez has added three days to Venezuela's Easter holiday to deal with a growing energy crisis. The move which will close government and public offices means most Venezuelans will have a seven-day break starting on 1 April.
Chile’s fresh fruit business has been whip-lashed the past weeks by the 8.8 earthquake which struck February 27, at the height of the fresh fruit export season. Large shipments of table grapes - roughly four million cases - and other fruit had to be stored while authorities worked over time to get port facilities operating again.
Chile’s government has decided to “un-freeze” the increase of the gasoline prices considering that the value of both oil and the US dollar is growing all around the world.
By law, on March 25 the transitory price reduction to the specific oil tax must come to an end. The decree was passed last year to help the local economy given the financial crisis that affected many countries.