Latin America

• Wednesday, March 24th 2010 - 21:56 UTC

  President Piñera opens world leading air and space fair in Santiago

  

  Chilean President Sebastían Piñera officially inaugurated this week the biannual International Air and Space Fair, FIDAE, which this year marks the 30th anniversary of the successful air show and the 80th anniversary of the Chilean Air Force.

• Wednesday, March 24th 2010 - 05:15 UTC

  Dakar rally 2011 edition to be again shared by Argentina and Chile

  

  After two editions in South America, the organizers of the Dakar announced from Paris that the world’s leading rally-raid will take place again in Argentina and Chile in 2011.

• Wednesday, March 24th 2010 - 02:09 UTC

  Argentina apologizes to Peru and anticipates closer political links

  

  Argentina and Peru put an end this week to sixteen years of “cold relations” with official apologies and a historic reparation from visiting President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner who also signed with her peer Alan García a Strategic Association bilateral agreement.

• Tuesday, March 23rd 2010 - 22:52 UTC

  Chile creates Emergency Jobs Program to counter massive layoffs

  

  With many Chilean companies using the ‘Fuerza Mayor’ clause to terminate contracts with their workers in the wake of the February 27 earthquake, Chile’s government this week announced creation of 13,000 new emergency jobs for the most devastated zones and the creation of special loans for the most damaged companies.

• Tuesday, March 23rd 2010 - 14:32 UTC

  Hillary Clinton announces US support for Insulza’s OAS re-election

  

  The United States will support Chile’s Jose Miguel Insulza in his bid for another five years as head of the Organization of American States, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday in a letter to the OAS secretary-general.

• Tuesday, March 23rd 2010 - 03:13 UTC

  Drug abuse among teenagers in several South American countries

  

  The Organization of American States (OAS), through its Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD), and the United Nations (UN), through its Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), presented in Vienna the latest joint study on drug consumption among student populations in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru and Uruguay.

• Tuesday, March 23rd 2010 - 03:03 UTC

  Cuban farmers pushing for greater autonomy to produce and sell crops

  

  Cuban farmers are pressing for greater autonomy to produce and sell their crops, blaming government inefficiency for Cuba’s falling food output despite agricultural reforms introduced by President Raúl Castro.

• Monday, March 22nd 2010 - 21:25 UTC

  All set for Insulza’s re-election in OAS; Piñera flies to Washington in support

  

  With a few hours left before the election of a new Secretary General for the Organization of American States, OAS, which has as only candidate Chilean Jose Miguel Insulza running for re-election, Chilean Foreign Affairs minister Alfredo Moreno said that support from United States is “welcome”.

• Monday, March 22nd 2010 - 21:05 UTC

  Latinamerica leads in distribution of free laptops for schoolchildren

  

  The massive delivery of free laptops for schoolchildren -- begun on an experimental basis nearly three years ago in Uruguay -- is booming throughout Latin America.

• Monday, March 22nd 2010 - 20:53 UTC

  IDB agrees to 70 billion USD capital increase and condones Haiti’s debt

  

  The Inter American Development Bank’s (IDB) board agreed to a 70 billion US dollars capital increase, an amount that should allow the organization to lend 12 billion a year, bank President Luis Alberto Moreno said during the annual meeting in Mexico.