Organization of American States Secretary General Miguel Insulza said on Sunday he would request the United States to reconsider the decision to begin the process of suspending tariff benefits to Bolivia.
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met on Saturday with Foreign Affairs ministers from several Latinamerican countries to address the political and economic relation between the US and the region.
Latin American exports' growth depends more on lower transport costs than on reduction of tariffs. This warning is in research Unclogging the Arteries: A Report on the Impact of Transport Costs on Latin American and Caribbean Trade.
Chile is exploring for methane gas from the abundant coal reserves in the extreme south region of Magallanes, more precisely 80 kilometers to the north of Punta Arenas.
Ecuador's President Rafael Correa claimed on Sunday evening a historic victory in a referendum to give him new powers after exit polls said he easily won with 63 to 66% of the vote. Speaking from Guayaquil, an opposition stronghold, a jubilant Mr Correa said his constitutional reform proposals had been approved across the country.
The Chilean cruise vessel Antarctic Dream is expected back in Punta Arenas next October 12 after having completed her first northern hemisphere summer season sailing in the Arctic.
Ibero-America Secretary General Enrique Iglesias said Latinamerica feels somehow frustrated because it is a victim, not an actor of the current global financial crisis, which sooner or later will reach the region.
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa is expected to win a constitutional referendum vote next Sunday to accelerate sweeping economic reforms to limit the private sector and expand the Executive control of the oil-exporting country's economy
The sister of an Anglo-Chilean Catholic priest Miguel Woodward, who disappeared in 1973 in Valparaiso after having been held captive in a naval school vessel, called on the Chilean Navy to assume responsibilities for human rights abuses committed during the military regime (1973/1990).
Presidents and representatives from the Union of South American Nations, Unasur agreed on the creation of a committee to investigate recent peasant massacres in the Bolivian province of Pando.