The ALBA, Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas, meets this week in Bolivia with economic integration as the main issue of the agenda.
The 15% safeguard tariff imposed by the Chilean government on imports of powder milk (whole and skimmed) and certain types of cheese from Argentina and Uruguay, does not apply to Punta Arenas in the extreme south of the country.
One of the historic founders of the Colombian guerrilla movement FARC (Colombian Rebel Armed Forces) died in the jungle, close to the Venezuelan border, three months ago of a heart attack, according to FARC sources quoted in the Bogotá Sunday press.
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro praised the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama, saying it was a positive measure that was more a criticism of past US policies than a recognition of Obama's accomplishments.
Eleven United Nations peacekeepers, six of them Uruguayans were killed Friday when their surveillance plane crashed into a mountainside in Haiti during a routine patrol, United Nations officials said.
The “populist wave” in Latinamerica represented by leaders such as Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales in Bolivia are not an “excessive threat” to stability and territorial balance said Chilean writer Jorge Edwards.
CMPC SA owned by Chile’s billionaire Matte family, agreed to buy a pulp unit in southern Brazil from Fibria for 1.43 billion US dollars to become the world’s second-biggest producer of cellulose.
Honduras ousted president Manuel Zelaya said on Thursday that the head of the de facto government Roberto Micheletti is planning to stay longer than anticipated in office.
Economist Nobel Milton Friedman use to say there is no such thing as a free lunch - but for years the majority of Cubans have been given free meals at state-run workplace canteens.
As of this week the Mexican city of Puebla has a fleet of 35 “pink taxis” exclusive for women and driven by ladies, announced the local Communications and Transport Secretariat.