Latin America

• Monday, September 10th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Guatemala Needs Electoral Runoff

  

  A center-left businessman and a conservative former general face a November runoff for Guatemala's presidency, according to election returns Monday that showed a Nobel Peace Prize winner finishing a distant sixth.

• Saturday, September 8th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Guatemala ready for Sunday Presidential Election

  

  In spite of violence that claimed some 50 lives, officials in Guatemala say they are prepared to carry out an efficient and secure electoral process on Sunday when voters go to the polls to elect a new president.

• Friday, September 7th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  President Bachelet discusses Free Trade in Australia

  

  Chilean President Michelle Bachelet met Thursday with Australian Prime Minister John Howard to discuss further rounds of negotiations concerning an eventual Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two countries.

• Wednesday, September 5th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Central America: Two hurricanes in one day make history

  

  Hurricanes swept ashore in Nicaragua and Mexico within hours of each other Tuesday, the first time Atlantic and Pacific hurricanes have made landfall on the same day since the National Hurricane Center began keeping records in the 1940s.

• Wednesday, September 5th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Wines of Chile reports a 37 percent of wine exports

  Although many of Chile's agro-industrial sectors have suffered this year due to labor conflicts and an exceptionally cold winter, its wine industry is thriving

• Wednesday, September 5th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine gas cuts limit Punta Arenas methanol plant

  

  Canada's Methanex Corporation said Wednesday that the provision of Argentine natural gas for its methanol plants in the extreme south of Chile remains limited in spite of the fact that the “technical problems” alleged by suppliers have been solved.

• Tuesday, September 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Bachelet signs free trade pact with Japan in Tokyo

  

  On the first day of Chilean President Michelle Bachelet's trip to Japan, she and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe signed a Free Trade Agreement (FTA), which came into effect immediately. That accord is expected to create 50,000 new jobs and significantly increase Chile's exports to Japan.

• Tuesday, September 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Unemployment and informality threaten young Latinamericans

  

  Unemployment, informality and inactivity endanger prospects of some 106 million young people in Latin America and the Caribbean in the labour market, and hinder potential economic growth and the fight against poverty in the region according to a new report of the International Labour Office (ILO) issued in Santiago de Chile on Tuesday.

• Tuesday, September 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  IDB announces annual assembly in Miami for next April

  

  The Inter-American Development Bank will host an event in Miami September 6 for government officials, business leaders and journalists to officially launch its 2008 Annual Meeting that will take place in the city in April.

• Monday, September 3rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Mexico's Calderón slams US

  

  President Felipe Calderón blasted the United States yesterday for immigration policies that have divided families and slowed the amount of money sent home by Mexicans living north of the border.