Latin America

• Friday, November 11th 2011 - 08:32 UTC

  Economist warns Latam to prepare for the chain effect of a Euro collapse

  

  The Secretary-General of the Ibero-American Secretariat Enrique Iglesias, warned Thursday that the EU crisis could reach as far as Asia and Latin America, and that preventive measures should be taken.

• Friday, November 11th 2011 - 08:28 UTC

  Puyehue volcanic ashes are back forcing delays in Buenos Aires and links to Chile

  

  Buenos Aires City two main air terminals, Ezeiza and Aeroparque faced on Thursday disruptions and flight complications because of the presence of the ash cloud from the Chilean Puyehue volcano, affecting particularly Patagonia to the south of Argentina and links with Santiago de Chile.

• Thursday, November 10th 2011 - 06:17 UTC

  Uruguay best place to live in Latin America, says Legatum Institute

  

  Uruguay is the best place to live in Latin America according to the Legatum Institute fourth year index on quality of life conditions which ranks 110 countries world wide representing 90% of world population and 97% of the global economy.

• Thursday, November 10th 2011 - 06:05 UTC

  Unasur council addresses initiative to compare military spending in the region

  

  The Unasur Defence Council is scheduled to meet Thursday and Friday in Peru to address an action plan for 2012, which once approved will help estimate and compare in a more compatible way military expenditure.

• Wednesday, November 9th 2011 - 06:44 UTC

  Chilean inflation up in October for the third straight month; GDP expands faster

  

  Consumer price inflation in Chile accelerated for the third straight month in October, data released by the National Institute of Statistics showed Tuesday.

• Wednesday, November 9th 2011 - 06:25 UTC

  Bolivia and Washington restore full diplomatic relations

  

  Bolivia and the United States restored full diplomatic ties Monday for the first time since 2008. Three years ago the Andean nation's government expelled the US ambassador and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The US expelled the Bolivian ambassador in return.

• Wednesday, November 9th 2011 - 06:19 UTC

  Twitter ‘shouting match’ between Raul Castro’s daughter and dissident blogger

  

  Social media moved into a new realm in technologically backward Cuba Tuesday when Cuban President Raúl Castro's controversial daughter Mariela began tweeting and quickly got into the Twitter equivalent of a shouting match with dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2011 - 08:41 UTC

  Mujica says Argentina was not involved in the “tax haven” claim incident

  

  Uruguay’s President, José Mujica said on Monday that Argentina had nothing to do with the comment made by France’s leader Nicolas Sarkozy indicating that Uruguay was a “tax haven.”

• Tuesday, November 8th 2011 - 08:35 UTC

  Chilean president Piñera approval rating experiences slight recovery

  

  The approval rating of Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera rose to 31% over the month of October according the results released by Chilean polling company, Adimark on Monday. While that figure represents an improvement of only one percentage point from last month’s poll, it confirms that the president has arrested the downward trend that saw him fall to his lowest approval rating of 27% in August’s Adimark poll.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2011 - 08:25 UTC

  Re-election for Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, continent’s poorest nation

  

  Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega, a former Marxist guerrilla leader, was headed for a landslide victory in Sunday's presidential election. Preliminary results showed Ortega, who has cemented his hold on power with social spending for the poor, had 63.7% support based on a count of votes from 18% of polling stations.