Latin America

• Tuesday, March 30th 2010 - 04:39 UTC

  Ideologue of “Chavez revolution” abandons “petty Bolivarian bourgeois” party

  

  Venezuelan retired General Alberto Müller Rojas considered one of the ideologists of President Hugo Chavez “revolution” announced he was retiring from politics because the current Venezuelan “revolutionary process” is in a dreadful state.

• Monday, March 29th 2010 - 18:52 UTC

  President Piñera’s Brother Will Dance For A Dream in Argentina

  

  Previously described as “a night club owner, musician, and notorious party animal” by Foreign Policy magazine, Miguel Piñera is taking steps to establish his career as a musician — conveniently outside the country where his brother is president.

• Monday, March 29th 2010 - 18:30 UTC

  Solar power project to refine Chilean copper

  

  Codelco, Chile’s nationally-owned copper company and one of the world’s largest, announced last week a plan to outfit some of their mines with solar power over the next few years, a move expected to save millions of dollars in energy costs.

• Monday, March 29th 2010 - 04:31 UTC

  Bicentennial Regatta largest display of naval tall ships in Punta Arenas

  

  The Bicentennial Regatta arrived over the weekend to Punta Arenas, extreme south of Chile after having crossed the Strait of Magellan.

• Monday, March 29th 2010 - 00:42 UTC

  Punta Arenas promotes Patagonia among Brazil’s Japanese community

  

  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.

• Monday, March 29th 2010 - 00:31 UTC

  Argentine opposition blasts Nestor Kirchner’s Unasur candidacy

  

  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).

• Monday, March 29th 2010 - 00:21 UTC

  UK participates in Chile’s FIDAE with cutting edge technology in defence

  

  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.

• Saturday, March 27th 2010 - 06:47 UTC

  Chile and Uruguay best ranked in global information technology report

  

  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.

• Saturday, March 27th 2010 - 06:40 UTC

  Argentina and Bolivia sign expansion of natural gas agreement

  

  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.

• Saturday, March 27th 2010 - 06:38 UTC

  Gap between rich and poor in Latinamerica is largest in the world, says UN

  

  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.