Latin America

• Tuesday, September 8th 2009 - 08:39 UTC

  Education gap in Latinamerica and with other regions widening

  

  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.

• Tuesday, September 8th 2009 - 08:21 UTC

  Daily flights Buenos Aires/Ushuaia starting October

  

  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.

• Tuesday, September 8th 2009 - 05:51 UTC

  Colombian magistrate sends strong message to President Alvaro Uribe

  

  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.

• Monday, September 7th 2009 - 14:42 UTC

  Iran and Chavez to fight “imperialist” foes and help revolutionary nations

  

  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.

• Monday, September 7th 2009 - 14:12 UTC

  Cuban government joins the internet sales-auction-exchange business

  

  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.

• Friday, September 4th 2009 - 13:26 UTC

  Chilean female voters split evenly between leading presidential candidates

  

  Female voters are split practically evenly between the two Chilean leading presidential candidates, according to a new poll from human rights organization Corporación Humanas.

• Friday, September 4th 2009 - 13:12 UTC

  Chile determined to boost natural gas production in Magallanes

  

  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.

• Friday, September 4th 2009 - 10:24 UTC

  US lifts restrictions and allows unlimited visits to relatives in Cuba

  

  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.

• Friday, September 4th 2009 - 09:24 UTC

  Rio do Janeiro and Buenos Aires among world’s ten happiest cities

  

  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.

• Thursday, September 3rd 2009 - 03:10 UTC

  Dead sea lions toll in north Chile rises to 1.067, mostly pups

  

  The official Chilean government count of dead sea lions that washed up on the shores of Chile's northern coast in the past two weeks has risen to 1,067, reported the National Fishing Service (SERNAPESCA).