Latin America

Thursday, August 9th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Ecuador/Venezuela plan largest oil refinery in Pacific coast

Ecuador and Venezuela subscribed Thursday an agreement for the construction of the largest crude refinery in the South American Pacific coast with a capacity of 300.000 barrels per day.
Tuesday, August 7th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Chilean Tourism Office resumes promotion in Europe and US

Following three years of silence Chile is launching a final consumer media campaign to attract more tourists from Germany, United States, Brazil and the United Kingdom, revealed Oscar Santelices head of the Chilean Tourist Office, Sernatur.
Tuesday, August 7th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Chilean meat industry stands to benefit most from FTA with Japan

The Free Trade Agreement between Chile and Japan, which comes into effect next month, will increase Chilean exports to that Asian nation by as much as 400 million US dollars a year, according to newly released Chilean government estimates.
Monday, August 6th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Chavez blames U.S. for blocking Venezuela's Mercosur bid

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday accused the United States of undermining the country's efforts to join the South American trade bloc Mercosur.
Monday, August 6th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Latin America's richest man is worth 67.8 billion US dollars

Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim, who is estimated by some calculations to be the world's richest man, said that he shook aside those comments and was more interested in making his business life compatible with his family and personal life.
Sunday, August 5th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
UN food for victims of floods and deep freeze in S. America

United Nations is helping to provide emergency food to nearly 100,000 people after the worst floods in decades in Colombia and the coldest weather in 30 years in Peru brought even more misery to over 1 million of Latin America's most impoverished inhabitants
Friday, August 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Chilean Congress approves free trade agreement with Japan

The Chilean Senate ratified this week the first free trade agreement with Japan and next week Chile is scheduled to begin a round of bilateral negotiations with Australia hoping to reach a similar free trade agreement.
Friday, August 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Bolivian peasants promised 30 million hectares of land

Bolivian president Evo Morales signed Thursday a decree which further advances his controversial “agrarian revolution” of expropriation of idle land to distribute among the aboriginal population and which is strongly resisted by business sectors.
Friday, August 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Leading Chilean bishop calls for improved income distribution

Chilean Episcopal Conference president Monsignor Alejandro Goic who played a leading mediation role in a labor conflict in the copper mines, said that one of the causes for labor strife are low salaries and suggested that the “minimum salary should really be converted into an ethical salary”.
Friday, August 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Latinamerica better prepared to face financial turbulences

Latinamerican economies are much better prepared than in the nineties to face financial turbulences, said on Friday Jose Luis Machinea, Executive Secretary for the United National Economic Committee for Latinamerica and the Caribbean, CEPAL.