Latin America

• Wednesday, July 3rd 2013 - 03:38 UTC

  OAS Secretary General Expresses Deep Displeasure over Airplane Incident involving President Morales in Europe

  

  The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, expressed his deep displeasure with the decision of the aviation authorities of several European countries that denied the use of airspace to the plane carrying the President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Evo Morales, from Moscow to La Paz.

• Wednesday, July 3rd 2013 - 03:25 UTC

  Evo Morales' plane rerouted on suspicion Snowden on board.

  

  The plane carrying Bolivian President Evo Morales home from Russia was rerouted to Austria on Tuesday after France and Portugal refused to let it cross their airspace because of suspicions that NSA leaker Edward Snowden was on board, the country's foreign minister said.

• Tuesday, July 2nd 2013 - 09:17 UTC

  Ecuador 'helped Snowden by mistake,' asylum in doubt

  

  Edward Snowden will not necessarily be granted asylum in Ecuador, and any travel aid given to him was purely accidental, the Ecuadorian President has said. He also rebuked WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for speaking on the part of Ecuador.

• Monday, July 1st 2013 - 05:47 UTC

  Chile's Bachelet easily beats rivals for new presidential bid

  

  Former Chilean leader Michelle Bachelet steamed toward another presidential bid on Sunday with a lopsided primary win that prompted her center-left rivals to concede early in the evening and vow to support her in the November election.

• Monday, July 1st 2013 - 02:26 UTC

  Paraguay Assumes Chair of the OAS Permanent Council

  

  The Permanent Representative of Paraguay to the Organization of American States (OAS), Martin Sannemann, assumed last Friday the Chair of the Permanent Council of the hemispheric institution, held in the last three months by the Permanent Representative of Panama, Arturo Vallarino.

• Monday, July 1st 2013 - 02:13 UTC

  Chile Assumes the Chair of the OAS Inter-American Defense Board

  

  The Inter-American Defense Board conducted last Friday the change of command ceremony of the Chair of the Council of Delegates, in which its authorities and those of the Organization of American States (OAS) reiterated their commitment to continue working together to overcome the challenges in defense and security matters currently facing hemisphere.

• Friday, June 28th 2013 - 12:26 UTC

  Petrocaribe: Central America and the Caribbean’s Energy Dilemma

  

  In the eve of the Managua summit which will focus on creating a new Economic Zone, Petrocaribe, the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez’s oil treaty, continues to play a vital role in the economic development of its 18 member states from the Central America and Caribbean region. But given the current political and economic climate in Venezuela, the question remains if Petrocaribe’s cheap oil is sustainable?

• Friday, June 28th 2013 - 07:37 UTC

  Aditya Birla Group has the largest business turnover among Indian companies in Latin

  

  Aditya Birla Group is a late entrant to Latin America and came very much later than the Tatas and Reliance, the other big iconic Indian business groups. However Birla has made up for lost time by emerging as the Indian company with the largest annual business turnover in Latin America, which was around 1.8 billion dollars last year. Birla is also the largest investor from the Indian private sector in Latin America.

• Thursday, June 27th 2013 - 05:38 UTC

  Chilean students and workers take to the streets to demand education reform

  

  An estimated one hundred thousand people turned out Wednesday on another day of demonstrations called by students in several Chilean cities, with union members, port workers and miners joining the throng.

• Thursday, June 27th 2013 - 05:31 UTC

  ‘Artigas never wanted to be Argentine; he was too smart for that’, a barrage of twits tell Cristina Fernandez

  

  Never in his life did Artigas (Uruguay’s liberator from Spain and Portugal 200 years ago) wanted to be an Argentine, and since then all Uruguayans feel the same way, was the spirit of the barrage of twits from Uruguayan opposition leaders condemning President Cristina Fernandez interpretation of history events.