Latin America

• 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.

• Thursday, January 28th 2010 - 23:52 UTC

  Tourism Law Aims To Professionalize Chile’s Industry

  

  A new tourism law passed by the Chilean Congress earlier this month is set to change the face of Chile’s tourist industry by setting standards for operators and guides.

• Thursday, January 28th 2010 - 14:15 UTC

  Honduras Lobo moving “in the right direction”, but no US aid restoration yet

  

  Newly-inaugurated Honduran President Porfirio Lobo is taking his country “in the right direction,” but the United States has not decided whether to restore aid to Honduras, said Arturo Valenzuela, US assistant secretary of state for western hemisphere affairs.

• Thursday, January 28th 2010 - 14:09 UTC

  NASA surveillance flights to anticipate quakes in Haiti

  

  US space agency NASA will send surveillance flights over Haiti and the Dominican Republic to look for signs that more earthquakes may hit the area after a giant quake that killed as many as 200,000 people two weeks ago.