Chile's Institute of Antarctica (INACH) has proposed a US$4 million microorganism research project for the increasingly disputed Antarctica. If funding is approved, Chilean scientists can look forward to spending the next four years on the icy continent.
Chilean president Michelle Bachelet met for half an hour Thursday afternoon in the presidential palace La Moneda with elected president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. Although old friends this was the first official meeting of the elected president with a foreign leader.
Venezuela's former Defence Minister Raul Isaias Baduel, a long-time ally of President Hugo Chavez, said he is planning a campaign to urge citizens to vote against the government's proposed review of the constitution which he described as a coup.
Chilean officials confirmed this week in Santiago the attendance of Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales, and Daniel Ortega at this week's Summit of Friendship and Integration of Latin American Peoples, also known as the People's Summit.
Boeing said Monday it had struck a multibillion-dollar deal with Chile's LAN Airlines that includes 32 787 Dreamliners, the largest order for its new plane in Latin America. The order includes 26 of the fuel-efficient Dreamliners and six more leased from International Lease Finance Corp.
Chile's National Association of Pharmaceutical Chains (Anacaf) met with Chile's Health Ministry (Minsal) this week to discuss fines imposed on those pharmacies that have refused to dispense emergency contraceptives to customers.
Tens of thousands of Venezuelans marched through the capital Caracas on Sunday, in a show of support for the constitution reforms that will greatly expand President Hugo Chavez's executive powers and eliminate presidential term limits allowing him to run for re-election indefinitely.
Massive flooding from a week of rain has forced hundreds of thousands of people in the Mexican state of Tabasco to abandon their homes and seek shelter from the muddy waters that on Friday covered an estimated 80% of this southeast Gulf state.
Guatemalans are set to vote Sunday for president in a second-round election between hardline General Otto Perez and social democrat Alvaro Colom.
Magallanes in the extreme south of Chile remains as the region with the lowest unemployment in the country, 3.2% in the July-September quarter. This is considerably less than Chile's 7.7% national average or Greater Santiago's 8%.