Latin America

Friday, September 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Argentine energy shortage repeat for Chilean mines

Mining leaders in Chile indicated to local press this week that their industry is bracing for energy shortages in the coming year
Friday, September 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
United Kingdom main market for booming Chilean wine industry

Chile's wine and fish exports for the first eight months of 2007 increased a significant 34% and 12% respectively compared to the same period last year.
Thursday, September 27th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Magallanes Rockhopper population reaches 316 thousand

Scientists reported this week that the population of Southern Rockhopper penguins on Isla Noir, in southern Chile, the most important colony for the Eudyptes chrysocom family in all of South America, has risen to 316 thousand. Environmentalists stressed the importance of this increase in population, especially in light of the drop in the species' population in previous decades.
Thursday, September 27th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Bolivia ignores US warnings and reaches out to Iran

Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and a delegation of 35 officials arrived Thursday morning in La Paz for a half day visit to Bolivia as part of Teheran's policy to break increasing international isolation, which is welcomed by left leaning regimes in the region anxious to counterweight United States influence.
Thursday, September 27th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Fallout from global financial turbulences finds Chile strong

After the International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced that the economic crisis in the United States has not yet peaked, Chile's Minister of Finance Andres Velasco assured government officials this week Chile is prepared for economic turbulence.
Thursday, September 27th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
US/Peru trade pact vote signals change in Democrats stance

The free trade pact between the United States and Peru won bipartisan support in a crucial Congressional committee this week signaling that some opposition Democrats will be receptive to new trade deals as long as they call on other nations to adhere to international labor and environmental standards.
Thursday, September 27th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Chile confirms US trade threat in run-up to Iraq war

Current Chilean Ambassador to the United Nations, Heraldo Muñoz, confirmed this week that, in the run up to the Iraq war, the U.S. government made clear to Chile that it risked jeopardizing the Free-Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two countries if it did not support a second resolution in the UN Security Council favoring the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Wednesday, September 26th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Exxon follows Shell and is divesting from South America

Exxon Mobil Corporation seems intent in leaving South America following recent compensation disputes with the Venezuelan government and the decision to sell its Argentine and Uruguayan units, according to some observers in Buenos Aires
Wednesday, September 26th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Conservationists buy and expand US Virgin Islands national park

A large stretch of coastal land has been secured by a United States conservation group, paving the way for the biggest expansion of the U.S. Virgin Islands National Park since it was created more than 50 years ago
Wednesday, September 26th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Two confronted visions on Latinamerica economic prospects

Dissenting views on Latinamerica future and economic prospects proved most evident during a recent Conference on the Americas sponsored by The Miami Herald and which gathered top government officials, economists and corporate leaders.