Latin America

• Thursday, April 26th 2012 - 05:59 UTC

  Brazil investing heavily in developing Peruvian natural gas sector

  

  Three of Brazil's leading companies said on Wednesday they are increasing investment and exploration in Peru's natural gas sector as the country prepares to build a new pipeline and petrochemical plants.

• Thursday, April 26th 2012 - 05:48 UTC

  Chilean students take to the streets in support of education reform

  

  Tens of thousands of students took to the streets in Chile in support of education reform. Organisers said at least 50.000 marched in the capital Santiago on Wednesday, with police saying 25.000 attended.

• Wednesday, April 25th 2012 - 21:42 UTC

  Energy rich Venezuela starts nationwide power rationing program

  

  Venezuelan authorities announced on Tuesday the resumption of nationwide power rationing plans to cope with the imbalance between supply and demand in the National Electricity System (SEN).

• Wednesday, April 25th 2012 - 21:35 UTC

  High cost and scarcity of electricity threatens Chile’s massive investments in copper industry

  

  The biggest-ever pipeline of copper projects is under threat as Chile, the world's top producer, struggles to contain rising opposition to new power plants.

• Wednesday, April 25th 2012 - 06:36 UTC

  G-20 membership attracts Chile, but not prepared to replace dissident Argentina

  

  Chilean diplomacy has been active preparing for the next G-20 meeting in Mexico which it plans to attend as a “special guest”, but also because the future could hold an even greater prize if Argentina’s erratic behaviour finally is no longer acceptable for the rest of the group’s members.

• Wednesday, April 25th 2012 - 02:56 UTC

  Video on Chavez playing bocce to dispel rumours about his health condition

  

  The Venezuelan government on Tuesday broadcast a video of President Hugo Chavez playing the European bowling game of bocce in Cuba in a new effort to quash rumours that he was dying of cancer while out of the country.

• Tuesday, April 24th 2012 - 21:52 UTC

  Independent oil company plans major expansion in Chile, Argentina and Colombia

  

  Latin American independent oil and gas explorer GeoPark Holdings Ltd is planning a major expansion of its activities in 19 licensed blocks in three countries with the purpose of significantly increasing oil and gas production in the next 18 months, according to a report released by the company.

• Tuesday, April 24th 2012 - 20:51 UTC

  Cuba plans private sector to take over 50% of the economy in five years

  

  Cuba will move nearly 50% of the state's economic activity to the “non-state” sector a senior Communist party official said, the latest signal the island is headed toward a mixed economy.

• Tuesday, April 24th 2012 - 06:31 UTC

  Three Chilean universities among top 100 in Latam; two Brazilian and a Mexican rank first

  

  Three Chilean research universities have placed in the top 100 Latin American universities, according to a new study released last week by Iberoamericano SIR 2012.

• Tuesday, April 24th 2012 - 06:28 UTC

  Independent press and journalists, targets of state controlled media in Latam

  

  The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) concluded on Monday its half-yearly meeting, held in Cádiz, Spain, with ratification of its conclusions, in which it declared that: “The main problems facing the press in the Americas are crimes against journalists for the sole fact that they are performing their work under governments of democratic origin, but which are authoritarian and use state-controlled media to persecute and defame the independent press”.