Latin America

• Wednesday, June 9th 2010 - 19:19 UTC

  Female pilot breaks sound barrier in Chile

  

  Flying at 20,000 feet above ground, Karina Miranda became the first Chilean woman pilot to break the sound barrier since it was first broken by a Chilean in the 1970s.

• Wednesday, June 9th 2010 - 06:16 UTC

  Honduras return to OAS begins next week in Washington

  

  The Organization of American States, OAS, is set to begin next week discussions on the integration of a special committee that will make proposals to end the international isolation of Honduras, which has been an OAS outcast since June 2009 when a coup deposed President Manuel Zelaya.

• Wednesday, June 9th 2010 - 06:05 UTC

  Chilean ambassador in Argentina resigns for downplaying Pinochet regime

  

  Chile's President Sebastián Piñera accepted on Tuesday the resignation of the Ambassador in Argentina, Miguel Otero Lathrop, who had assured during an interview last Sunday that most Chileans did not suffer Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship. His comments triggered a barrage of criticisms both in Chile and Argentina.

• Wednesday, June 9th 2010 - 01:32 UTC

  OAS assembly gives full support to Argentina’s Malvinas claim

  

  The Organization of American States (OAS) ratified support of the Argentine demand to seek dialogue with the United Kingdom in order to find a peaceful and definitive solution to the ‘colonialism situation’ of the Malvinas Islands, South Georgia, and South Sandwich and the surrounding maritime areas.

• Wednesday, June 9th 2010 - 01:27 UTC

  Cluster Munitions convention in Chile; pressure on Brazil and Argentina to sign

  

  “Decent countries cannot use indecent weapons” Alfredo Labbé, Director of International and Human Security under Chile’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said Monday in Santiago during an international conference to deal with the issue of cluster bombs.

• Wednesday, June 9th 2010 - 00:00 UTC

  LAN Chile and affiliates passenger and cargo traffic soars in May

  

  LAN Chile Airlines and subsidiaries, (NYSE: LFL / IPSA: LAN), one of the leading airlines in Latin America, reported on Monday its preliminary monthly traffic statistics and punctuality indicators for May 2010.

• Tuesday, June 8th 2010 - 23:56 UTC

  Bolivian president Morales re-elected as head of coca-growers federation

  

  President Evo Morales has been re-elected as head of Bolivia's largest coca-growers union, a post he has held for more than two decades.

• Tuesday, June 8th 2010 - 23:43 UTC

  Colombia’s Santos consolidates a clear majority for the June 20 run-off

  

  Colombian presidential candidate Juan Manuel Santos continues to collect support for the coming run-off next June 20, following the decision of another political party to back him.

• Tuesday, June 8th 2010 - 03:56 UTC

  OAS agreed Monday to create high level group to decide on Honduras

  

  The Organization of American States, OAS, agreed Monday to create a high level group to assess conditions for the re-entry of suspended Honduras, announced Peruvian Foreign Affairs minister Jose Antonio García Belaúnde

• Tuesday, June 8th 2010 - 01:16 UTC

  More divorces than marriages in Chile

  

  For the first time since divorce was legalized in Chile five years ago, couples are getting divorced faster than they are getting married. In 2008, 39,000 couples were granted divorces and 20,000 were married. 2009 saw a similar trend, with 63,021 couples granted divorce, or 9% more than the number of couples married, according to a report in La Tercera.