Latin America

• Friday, June 8th 2012 - 02:08 UTC

  Alliance of the Pacific emerges as a potent challenge for Mercosur and Brazil

  

  The leading countries of Latin America’s Pacific Rim with the exception of Ecuador and a few Central American countries, agreed to conform the Alliance of the Pacific an ambitious integration project which has good relations with Washington and is targeted to accompany the growing influence of the Asia-Pacific basin.

• Friday, June 8th 2012 - 01:35 UTC

  China interested in a trade agreement with Mercosur reveals Uruguay

  

  China has offered Mercosur to consider the possibility of negotiating a free trade agreement revealed Uruguay, when the South American block is going through one of its worst moments ever so distant from the integration process pledges of 1991.

• Thursday, June 7th 2012 - 06:19 UTC

  Chavez will personally register his presidential candidacy Monday, says campaign chief

  

  Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez will personally go to register his candidacy for the October 7 election on Monday, officials said, brushing aside rumors he might be too unwell from cancer or considering a successor.Chavez, 57, is after re-election despite a year-long battle against an unspecified cancer.

• Thursday, June 7th 2012 - 06:10 UTC

  Venezuelan opposition plays the nationalist card in territory dispute with Guyana

  

  Venezuela's opposition accused the government on Wednesday of turning a blind eye to neighbouring Guyana's oil exploration in a border region claimed by Venezuela, potentially inflaming a territorial dispute that dates back more than a century.

• Thursday, June 7th 2012 - 05:45 UTC

  Chile, Peru, Colombia and Mexico seal the Pacific Alliance for economic integration

  

  Chile, Peru, Colombia and Mexico signed an accord Wednesday creating the Pacific Alliance to more deeply integrate their economies, and develop new trade links with the Asia-Pacific region.

• Wednesday, June 6th 2012 - 06:33 UTC

  Uruguayan economist joins Brookings Institution as director of Latam Initiative

  

  Ernesto Talvi, an expert on Latin America, emerging markets and economic policy, will join the Brookings Institution as director of the Latin American Initiative (LAI), Brookings President Strobe Talbott announced this week.

• Wednesday, June 6th 2012 - 04:41 UTC

  OAS calls on Argentina/UK to find peaceful way to solve Malvinas sovereignty dispute

  

  The Organization of American States general assembly, meeting in Tiquipaya, Bolivia, passed a resolution urging the Argentine and British governments to find a peaceful way to solve the Malvinas Islands sovereignty dispute.

• Tuesday, June 5th 2012 - 08:07 UTC

  Chile tells Morales “it will not yield sovereignty over any piece of territory”

  

  The Chilean Executive secretary general Andres Chadwick gave full support on Monday to Foreign Affairs minister Alfredo Moreno decision of not attending the Sunday session at the OAS General Assembly in Cochabamba where Bolivian president Evo Morales called for a sovereign sea outlet for his land-locked country.

• Monday, June 4th 2012 - 22:38 UTC

  Bright side of the Puyehue eruption: volcanic ash bricks and natural insecticides

  

  Argentine scientists developed bricks and are analyzing the possibility of making natural insecticides with the ashes from the Chilean Puyehue volcano eruption which this month a year ago covered several cities in Patagonia and caused millions of dollars losses, sources of the University that coordinates the studies announced.

• Monday, June 4th 2012 - 04:13 UTC

  Fitch: Chile, Peru best prepared for downturn of global economy; Argentina and Venezuela most vulnerable

  

  Chile and Peru are best positioned in Latin America to withstand a downturn in the global economy and a drop in commodity prices, while Argentina and Venezuela are the most vulnerable to any turmoil, according to a senior official from Fitch Ratings.