Latin America

• Wednesday, October 21st 2009 - 10:27 UTC

  Colombia demands reciprocity on formal non intervention guarantees

  

  The same way some countries want non intervention assurances from Colombia, Bogotá is also asking for certainties that its neighbours will not grant bases or refuge to guerrillas or the drugs trade, said Defence minister Gabriel Silva in an interview with the Brazilian media.

• Wednesday, October 21st 2009 - 06:15 UTC

  Nicaraguan Supreme Court opens the way for re-election of President Ortega

  

  The Nicaraguan Supreme Court has lifted a constitutional ban on re-election, clearing the way for President Daniel Ortega to run again in 2011 elections. The court's decision followed an appeal by Mr Ortega and a group of mayors.
  In July, Mr Ortega said publicly he favoured allowing people the right to seek consecutive terms.

• Wednesday, October 21st 2009 - 02:48 UTC

  South America: An Analysis of Arms Races and Regional Geopolitics

  

  In mid-September, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton critiqued Venezuela’s leader Hugo Chavez for his ongoing purchases of mostly Russian military equipment, arguing that this could trigger an arms race in South America. The statement has added fuel to the ongoing discussions about what form South America’s rearmament is taking and what this could come to mean for the security of the region.

• Tuesday, October 20th 2009 - 07:59 UTC

  Colombian president Uribe’s re-re-election is “in God’s hands”

  

  Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said that whether he is re-elected for a third running mandate is “in God's hands”, but he does not want future generations to think that he was attached to power, reported Bogotá’s newspaper El Espectador.

• Monday, October 19th 2009 - 12:46 UTC

  Chile opens Wind Park to supply 57.000 homes

  

  Chilean president Michelle Bachelet inaugurated last week the country's largest wind park. The Monte Redondo project demanded a 100 million US dollars investment and will have a production of 38 megawatts, which will power 57 thousand homes.

• Monday, October 19th 2009 - 12:38 UTC

  Peru condemns insults to Chilean president published in the Lima media

  

  Peruvian Foreign Affairs minister Jose Antonio García Belaúnde condemned the “injurious” publication against Chilean president Michelle Bachelet in the front page of one of Lima’s yellow press dailies.

• Saturday, October 17th 2009 - 10:30 UTC

  Chavez suffers “ideological delirium symptoms” claims Caracas mayor

  

  Venezuela’s capital Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledezma said that President Hugo Chavez suffers from “ideological delirium symptoms” because one day “he enshrines Fidel Castro, another Mao” and sometimes he “even praises Pinochet and Hitler”.

• Saturday, October 17th 2009 - 05:24 UTC

  Honduras crisis stalls President Obama expected visit to Brazil and Chile

  

  US president Barack Obama could visit Brazil this year once the US Senate approves the nomination of Thomas Shannon as ambassador before the Brazilian government, announced the head of the Brazilian diplomatic legation in Washington Antonio Patriota.

• Friday, October 16th 2009 - 07:01 UTC

  Underwater fibre optic cable to link Key West with Havana

  

  Miami-based Telecommunications Company said it planned to build an underwater fibre-optic cable linking the United States and Cuba, creating the first such line of its type.

• Friday, October 16th 2009 - 06:35 UTC

  Chileans are all work and no play; best lifestyle Australia

  

  Chileans are all work and no play, according a new study that suggests outsiders view the country as a good place for business but not for letting their hair down.