Holland delivered this week the last of the four frigates sold to the Chilean Navy in the framework of the Proyecto Puente II to renew the navy's surface fleet.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is sending a mission next week to the Incan archaeological ruin of Machu Picchu in Peru amid mounting concern about the conservation of the World Heritage Site as tourist numbers increase and urban development encroaches.
Latin American economies have improved fiscal positions and achieved better shape than they have in decades, and risks to that stem mostly from the United States and China, according to a World Economic Forum report issued this week.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez raised the idea of buying a nuclear power plant from Argentina yesterday and playfully suggested to his Colombian colleague Alvaro Uribe that it could be set up near Venezuela's border with Colombia.
Chilean former president Ricardo Lagos denied the existence of Chavism (President Chavez ideology) both in Venezuela and in the rest of Latinamerica but rather a charismatic president with a lot of money available and who lacks a solid political support.
The Punta Arenas retail market in the extreme south of Chile has significantly grown in recent years, attracting Chile's leading retailers. Retail giants Lider, Fallabella, La Polar and Johnson's have opened branches in the southern Region XII city over the past three years, and saw profitable returns in 2006.
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa achieved a solid political victory following the landslide support in Sunday's referendum to call a constitutional assembly with full powers to review the chart and set the foundations for a new model of country.
The International Monetary Fund, IMF said Latin America's private credit expansion requires careful vigilance, particularly with household loans and collateral conditions.
Al Gore has dumped financial backing from controversial Canadian mining company Barrick Gold for his upcoming Santiago event Global Warming and Climate Change: The Time Has Come to Act. The Academy Award-winning environmentalist distanced himself from any association with the mining company, which owns the controversial Pascua Lama gold mine.
The international soybean market, the main crop in Argentina and Brazil, is showing excellent prospects for South American farmers reports Oil World a reputed publication from the industry