Latin America

• Wednesday, September 18th 2013 - 01:47 UTC

  Mujica to address UN assembly on 28 September; meeting with several Latam presidents

  

  Uruguay’s president Jose Mujica will be attending the UN 68th General Assembly on the last week of September in New York, where he is scheduled to meet with several of his Latinamerica peers and the Secretary General Ban-Ki-moon.

• Tuesday, September 17th 2013 - 06:45 UTC

  Falklands receives visit of lawmakers from Panama’s National Assembly

  

  A group of Panama National Assembly members has arrived in the Falkland Islands for a week long visit. The party is headed by Foreign Affairs Commission president Dalia Bernal and includes Yaniel Abrego, president of the Education Commission, lawmaker Renaul Dominguez and Jorge Gantes legal advisor of the Foreign Affaris Committee.

• Tuesday, September 17th 2013 - 05:03 UTC

  Punta Arenas expects 58.000 visitors and 103 calls this coming cruise season

  

  An estimated 58.000 visitors have been confirmed for this coming 2013/14 cruise season at the extreme south Chile cities of Punta Arenas and Puerto Natales, although the overall number is slightly less than the 62.000 of this last season according to Epaustral, the Austral Port Corporation.

• Monday, September 16th 2013 - 22:05 UTC

  Chile’s latest scientific vessel on a hake spawning research cruise in the extreme south

  

  Chile latest fisheries scientific research vessel ‘Cabo de Hornos’ has completed a month long cruise in the southern coast of the country collecting information on three different type of hake spawning, something which hadn’t been done since at least 1996, according to the country’s fisheries officials.

• Monday, September 16th 2013 - 01:32 UTC

  Colombia denies registry of the ‘Escobar’ trademark to family members

  

  Colombia’s government has refused registration as a trademark of the full name “Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria” the country most notorious narcotics criminal. According to local news in Bogotá the application was filed by Maria Isabel Santos Cabalerro, Juana Manuela Marroquín Santos and Juan Sebastian Marroquín Santos, Escobar’s widow and children respectively who changed their names after settling in Argentina in the late 1990.

• Monday, September 16th 2013 - 01:26 UTC

  Colombia/Nicaragua maritime dispute reignites, despite International Court ruling

  

  President Juan Manuel Santos presented before Colombia’s constitutional court a demand against the Pact of Bogotá arguing that a recent ruling from the International Court of Justice on a maritime dispute with Nicaragua does not comply with the Colombian constitution.

• Sunday, September 15th 2013 - 20:16 UTC

  Pope’s meets with the father of liberation theology; Vatican media praises the Peruvian priest

  

  Pope Francis' September 11 meeting with Dominican Father Gustavo Gutierrez was an informal one, held in the in the pope's residence, the Domus Sanctae Marthae, and not listed on his official schedule., reports the Catholic News Service. However the news that Pope Francis had received the 85-year old Peruvian priest, who is widely considered the father of liberation theology, has excited interest far beyond the Vatican's walls.

• Sunday, September 15th 2013 - 19:22 UTC

  The hurdles faced by Bachelet to achieve her promise of reforming Chilean education

  Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet legacy lives heavily in a country which has had a spectacular economic performance since the return of democracy, but remains lame in several social and political issues.

• Sunday, September 15th 2013 - 19:18 UTC

  RFA Wave Knight in major seizure of drugs in the Caribbean

  

  Royal Fleet Auxiliary support ship Wave Knight has helped seize an estimated £6.5 million worth of drugs from traffickers in the Caribbean. In a multi-agency operation involving UK and US assets, the fishing vessel Miss Tiffany was detected and one of Wave Knight’s boats was launched to investigate.

• Sunday, September 15th 2013 - 19:15 UTC

  Latam’s cash transfer programs have proven more effective in combating poverty

  

  Latin America’s cash transfer programs are a more effective weapon against poverty and social inequality than economic growth alone, according to a study by two local economists.