Latin America

• Thursday, November 13th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Latam markets plunge on Paulson's U-turn focus change

  

  Latinamerica's main stock markets ended sharply weaker on Wednesday following on Wall Street and US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's announcement that it would re focus the 700 billion US dollars bailout fund.

• Thursday, November 13th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Spain-Argentine research cruise in South Atlantic

  

  Spanish and Argentine scientists have begun a joint research cruise in the South-western Atlantic on board the Spanish government fisheries support vessel “Miguel Oliver” which is scheduled to extend until December 20

• Tuesday, November 11th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Maltese cruise retained in Ushuaia for security reasons

  

  The Maltese flagged cruise vessel “Lyubov Orlova” has been retained in Ushuaia and banned from continuing to Antarctica until it complies with the International Maritime Organization security and safety rules, according to local Argentine authorities.

• Monday, November 10th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Venezuela and Russia strengthen links in mining and finance

  

  Russia and Venezuela have signed 15 co-operative agreements in the financial, industrial, mining, aerospace, energy and communications, which include a joint venture with Russian aluminium giant RusAl building a production facility in Venezuela.

• Monday, November 10th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  South Chile reviews peat potential as alternative energy

  

  Magallanes and Los Lagos regions in the extreme south of Chile are looking into the possibilities of developing vast resources of peat in the area. Magallanes has an estimated 2.2 million hectares of peat and peaty soil which is equivalent to 17% of that territory.

• Monday, November 10th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Plan Colombia short of narcotics goal, but boosted security

  

  The five billion dollars US aid package known as the Plan Colombia failed to halve illegal narcotics production in Colombia, according to a report from the US Congress General Accounting Office, GAO.

• Sunday, November 9th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Magallanes/Tasmania universities set to increase close links

  The Dean of Tasmania University recently visited Punta Arenas in the extreme south of Chile a special guest of the Magallanes University. The two institutions have close links in Antarctic research and climate change projects.

• Thursday, November 6th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Chile's October inflation, the highest since 2002, 0.9%

  October consumer prices in Chile increased 0.9%, accumulating 8.5% in ten months and 9.9% in the last twelve months according to the latest release from the country's Statistics Institute, INE. October's increase is the highest for the month since 2002.

• Thursday, November 6th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Anticipated success for 09 Dakar Rally in Argentina/Chile

  

  Organizers of the Dakar Rally, to be held next year for the first time in Argentina and Chile, following suspension because of terrorist threats in Africa, confirmed a record number of pilots: 530, the highest since 1988. The list includes car, motorcycle, truck and four wheeled cycle pilots.

• Wednesday, November 5th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Killings of civilians, forces Colombia's top general to resign

  

  Colombia's top army commander resigned following allegations that soldiers killed civilians in an effort to inflate military successes in a war against rebel groups.