Latin America

Tuesday, January 8th 2008 - 20:00 UTC
Two weekly flights Santiago-Pto Natales Torres del Paine park

Air Comet a Chilean subsidiary of the Spanish Group Marsans is expanding domestic flights in the country and announced two weekly flights to Puerto Natales, in the extreme south of Chilean Patagonia.
Monday, January 7th 2008 - 20:00 UTC
New gas field could increase Bolivia's total production 5%

A new gas field has been found in east Bolivia, which will have a production capacity of 2.4 million-cubic-meter a day by October, Bolivian President Evo Morales announced. The new field, called Tacobo and operated by Argentine Pluspetrol, is located in San Isidro, the Bolivian eastern province of Santa Cruz rich in oil and natural gas reserves.
Monday, January 7th 2008 - 20:00 UTC
Stone blames Bush for failed release of Colombian hostages

Hollywood director Oliver Stone who was to film the liberation of hostages held by the Colombian cocaine funded guerrilla FARC at the end of December, accused the United States for the failure of the mission and defends the role played by Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez in the frustrated operation.
Monday, January 7th 2008 - 20:00 UTC
Santiago airport to handle 2.2 million pax this summer

From December 2007 to February 2008 an expected 2.2 million passengers will be passing through Santiago de Chile's Arturo Merino Benitez International Airport, reports The Santiago Times. This is a 10% increase over last summer, and 20% of this figure corresponds to first-time travelers, according to airport operations chief Alberto Becerra.
Monday, January 7th 2008 - 20:00 UTC
Argentina under Plan Condor had tracking stations in Brazil

The 1976-1983 Argentine dictatorship held information bases in San Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which were meant to “detect people connected to the subversion”, according to a legal prosecution started in Argentina, reported the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper on Sunday.
Sunday, January 6th 2008 - 20:00 UTC
Colombia demands “unconditional” release of hostages

Colombia on Saturday called on cocaine funded leftist guerrillas to unconditionally free hostages after saying the rebels lied in an “incoherent” way about the whereabouts of a young child they promised to free last month.
Sunday, January 6th 2008 - 20:00 UTC
Rescued Chilean factory vessel arrives in Punta Areas

Pulled by a high seas tug the Chilean flagged fishing vessel, stranded close to Antarctic waters for several days, finally arrived late Saturday to the city of Punta Arenas, from where she regularly operates.
Sunday, January 6th 2008 - 20:00 UTC
Chile suffers highest inflation in twelve years, 7.8%

Consumer prices in Chile rose 0.5% in December and the annual rate reached 7.8% the highest level since June 1996 according to the latest report from the government-run National Statistics Institute, INE.
Friday, January 4th 2008 - 20:00 UTC
Venezuela's Chavez reshuffles cabinet after defeat

President Hugo Chavez shuffled his Cabinet on Thursday, naming a retired military officer as vice president and other changes aimed at tackling corruption and inefficiencies in his socialist government
Friday, January 4th 2008 - 20:00 UTC
Chile Fisheries Council sets catch quotas for 2008

The National Fisheries Council established global catch quotas for 2008 at a meeting held at the offices of the Subsecretariat of Fisheries (SUBPESCA) in Valparaiso in mid-December.