Chilean conservative presidential candidate Sebastián Piñera announced Sunday he will submit a proposal to Chile's government suggesting that the voter registration period for December's presidential elections be extended by around one month.
Latinamerica and the Caribbean spend three times more in arms and fuel subsidies than in the learning gap between children from low income and high income homes, a sum estimated in 14 billion US dollars, according to the president of the Inter American Development Bank, IDB, Luis Alberto Moreno.
LAN Chile’s Argentine subsidiary announced an increase in flights from Buenos Aires to the Argentine port city of Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego to meet peak season demand for leisure cruises to Antarctica.
The head of Colombia’s Constitutional court Nilson Pinilla said the country can “trust” the decision of the court, regarding the law that calls for a referendum on the re-election of President Alvaro Uribe for a third consecutive term.
Iran and Venezuela plan to stand up against imperialist foes by strengthening bilateral cooperation on a range of issues, including nuclear power, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said over the weekend.
Cuba’s Housing Institute has created as specific site in the web to facilitate the search and paper-work for people interested in the interchange of homes, reported the broadcasting station Reloj. The sale and purchase of real estate in Cuba is illegal.
Female voters are split practically evenly between the two Chilean leading presidential candidates, according to a new poll from human rights organization Corporación Humanas.
A full fledged effort to search for more natural gas in the extreme south of Chile has been undertaken by the Chilean government and the private sector. The plan anticipates the drilling of 22 new wells, 120 kilometres to the north east of Punta Arenas in the Dorado-Riquelme quadrant, which already has a daily production of 450.000 cubic metres.
United States citizens with relatives in Cuba can send them unlimited cash and visit the island as long and often as they would like under new rules from President Barack Obama’s administration.
Brazil’s Rio do Janeiro and Argentina’s Buenos Aires open and close the Forbes list of the world’s ten happiest cities according to a recent survey conducted by policy advisor Simon Anholt and market researcher GfK Custom Research North America.