Latin America

• Monday, February 1st 2010 - 05:49 UTC

  Closer ties Australia/Chile now also include tax treaty

  

  Australia announced last week the first tax treaty with Chile. Nick Sherry, Assistant Treasurer of Australia, announced that Australia and Chile had reached agreement on a new tax treaty. The proposed treaty, the first between the two countries, will reflect the economic, legal and cultural interests of each.

• Sunday, January 31st 2010 - 14:32 UTC

  Haiti arrests US nationals suspected of child smuggling

  

  Haitian police have arrested 10 US nationals on suspicion of trying to illegally take 33 children abroad.

• Saturday, January 30th 2010 - 14:19 UTC

  Chile hopes to host the world’s “Largest Eye In The Sky

  

  Chile is now competing with Spain for the right to host one of the most important astronomy projects the world has known: the extremely large E-ELT telescope.

• Saturday, January 30th 2010 - 08:23 UTC

  Unemployment in Magallanes softens but remains double the 2008 rate

  

  Unemployment in Magallanes region, extreme south of Chile reached 5.3% during the last quarter of last year which represents an improvement over the previous quarter, 6.6%, but is double over the same period a year ago when it stood at 2.8%.

• Saturday, January 30th 2010 - 08:15 UTC

  Communist party eliminated from Chile’s political parties registry

  

  Chile’s Electoral Service, Servel cancelled the registry of seven political parties, among which the Communist Party for not having complied with the rule which demands a minimum 5% of valid votes of total turnout in last December 13 presidential election.

• Friday, January 29th 2010 - 22:54 UTC

  Around the world of music in one night, where the Latinos took front stage!

  

  GlobalFEST, an annual world music festival held every January in New York City is a smashing night of musical discovery where artists from all over the world springboard themselves into the world music scene in New York.

• Friday, January 29th 2010 - 11:45 UTC

  New species moving into Chilean waters because of climate change

  

  “I felt a rush and a little fear when I saw it,” said Chilean surf champion Diego Medina after spotting what appeared to be a shark off the beaches of La Serena (Region IV). In reality, the creature was one of the large swordfish species that recently migrated to Chile's shores as a consequence of warming water currents.

• Friday, January 29th 2010 - 06:08 UTC

  Chilean peso slumps on poor economic data and China: 530 to the US dollar

  

  The Chilean peso fell for a ninth day running, its longest losing streak in 15 months, as December industrial sales and production data came in below forecasts and bearish prospects for the country’s main export, copper given China’s strong liquidity and credit restrictions.

• Friday, January 29th 2010 - 02:22 UTC

  Tough year ahead for Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez

  

  Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is facing a tough 2010 with growing complaints over shortages of electricity and water and a sharp currency devaluation that could harm the chances of his supporters in congressional elections in September.

• Friday, January 29th 2010 - 01:54 UTC

  Canada confident of its oil potential development in spite of Venezuela

  

  An assessment that Venezuela sits on one of the largest oil fields on record does not threaten the potential of Canadian reserve development, analysts said.