The Salmon Infectious Anemia, ISA, virus keeps spreading in Chile according to the latest release from the country's Sernapesca, (Nacional Fisheries Service) reports the press from Puerto Montt.
Bolivia said Wednesday that natural gas provision to Brazil and Argentina are guaranteed following this week's nationalization of the Transredes pipeline system which was partly owned by UK's Ashmore and Shell.
Despite Chilean President Michelle Bachelet's announcement of a one billion US dollars subsidy boost, Chile's Confederation of Truck Drivers, CNDC, said that demands for fuel tax relief have not been met.
Bolivia continued Monday with its nationalizing policy taking over all assets belonging to the gas pipeline company Transredes which is half owned by Royal Dutch Shell and Ashmore Energy International.
Peru is planning a sustained growth averaging 7% until 2015, with minimum inflation based on the opening of the economy that has seen tariffs drastically cut in the last two years, said the country's Economy minister Luis Carranza during a visit to Chile where he was the main speaker at a trade forum.
Chile announced Monday a one billion US dollars injection to the fuel prices stabilization fund and another 250 million US dollars to prop the government owned fuel company ENAP in an attempt to ease the impact of ever increasing international crude prices.
Leaders from the Chilean coalition that has ruled since the return of democracy in 1990 warned that a setback in the coming municipal elections of next October could clear the way for a possible conservative victory in the 2009 presidential election.
Next July 24 the Chilean Public Works ministry will announce the name of the company that will be awarded the concession of the Punta Arenas airport, in the extreme south of the country, said Juan Francisco Miranda the regional representative for the ministry.
Chile's Defence Ministry will be deciding in the coming days the acquisition of a satellite, dual purpose, military and civilian which is estimated would cost in the range of 70 million US dollars, according to military sources in Santiago.
Unemployment continues to creep up in Chile, but the construction and financial services sectors softened the blow by adding more jobs in April than any other sector, the Chilean Statistics Institute (INE) reported on Thursday.