Latin America

Thursday, October 3rd 2013 - 06:58 UTC
Spain proposes sharing embassies and consulates with Pacific Alliance countries

Spain has proposed sharing embassies, consulates and trade offices with its Latinamerican associate-members of the Pacific Alliance, Chile, Peru, Colombia and Mexico. Foreign minister Jose Manuel García Margallo said that the idea of sharing some embassies and consulates already is operational in the European Union.
Thursday, October 3rd 2013 - 06:31 UTC
Colombia, Chile and Peru move to integrate foreign exchange markets

Colombia, Peru and Chile announced on Wednesday the integration of their foreign exchange markets in the framework of MILA to facilitate money exchange operations between the three associates which add to a daily average turnover of 2,798bn. So far the Latinamerican Integrated Market, MILA, is operating with a combined stock market for the three nations.
Wednesday, October 2nd 2013 - 08:22 UTC
Rousseff reminds Cartes that Paraguay belongs to Mercosur and is strategic for Brazil

Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff received her peer from Paraguay, Horacio Cartes with full head of state honours but at the same time reminded him that Paraguay is a full member of Mercosur and “bilateral relations are in the context of multilateral relations with all countries of the hemisphere”.
Wednesday, October 2nd 2013 - 07:25 UTC
Falklands Chilean residents celebrate National Day and strong links with Chile

Chilean residents of the Falkland Islands celebrated at Government House in Stanley their national day and the strong connections between the Islands and Chile.
Tuesday, October 1st 2013 - 06:46 UTC
Cristina Fernandez and Mujica in a prudent silence over the pulp mill controversy

Argentine President Cristina Fernández met on Monday with her Uruguayan counterpart José Mujica after the pair inaugurated a new vessel belonging to the ferry company Buquebús, (which joins Montevideo with Buenos Aires), in order to discuss matters related to the controversial UPM pulp plant formerly known as Botnia.
Tuesday, October 1st 2013 - 04:12 UTC
Has Brazil blown it, asks The Economist; Who bets against Brazil, always loses, replies Dilma

Last week Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff reopened her official twitter, closed since January 2011 when she was inaugurated, but now a year ahead of elections has reappeared with the character “Dilma Bolada”, full of music, colour and satire. “Sou Linda, sou diva, sou Presidenta, Sou Dilma” is the slogan of her Facebook with over half a million fans in just a few days
Tuesday, October 1st 2013 - 04:08 UTC
Argentine vote intention polls confirm challenger Massa chances for this month’s mid-term election

With less than a month for Argentina’s mid term elections the opposition to President Cristina Fernandez in the province of Buenos Aires, the largest and crucial electoral circuit clearly leads in public opinion polls and continues to advance over the primary results of August.
Monday, September 30th 2013 - 22:06 UTC
Barrick Gold Pascua-Lama project again running after court ruling

Chile's Supreme Court confirmed a freeze on Barrick Gold Corp's suspended Pascua-Lama gold mine but the Toronto-based miner escaped having the project's environmental permit revoked. The ruling dispels a significant uncertainty surrounding the controversial project, which now essentially has to complete a water management system issued by the environmental regulator to likely be re-activated.
Monday, September 30th 2013 - 19:31 UTC
Chile expects to harvest over 50.000 tons of walnuts, most for export in 2013/14

The walnut production in Chile has experienced a growth in the fiscal year 2013/2014, reports the German Agrarmarkt Informations-Gesellschaft (AMI) on its website. Not only the favourable weather conditions, but also the extension of the cultivation area in recent years has contributed to this.
Monday, September 30th 2013 - 19:11 UTC
Chilean military officers will be transferred to less luxurious jail despite suicide of an inmate

Former president and opposition candidate Michelle Bachelet, as well as Evelyn Matthei, candidate of the conservative ruling coalition for the coming 17 November elections coincided in describing the death of retired general Odlanier Mena Salinas who killed himself as ‘tragic’.