Latin America

• Thursday, November 3rd 2011 - 01:02 UTC

  Chilean fisheries landings reached 2.8 million tons in Jan-September

  

  According to the latest Report of Fisheries and Aquaculture Sector from the Chilean Under-Secretary of Fisheries, (Subpesca), the wild fisheries sector contributed 2.8 million tons between January and September of 2011 while aquaculture harvests reached 515.100 tons.

• Wednesday, November 2nd 2011 - 04:35 UTC

  Colombia dissolves domestic intelligence service embroiled in scandal

  

  Colombia's president dissolved the country's domestic intelligence service, an agency that had become embroiled in scandal during the term of his predecessor.

• Wednesday, November 2nd 2011 - 04:06 UTC

  China on ‘harmonious mission’ in the Caribbean to show it’s a responsible power

  

  A Chinese navy hospital ship has landed dozens of doctors and nurses in Jamaica on a humanitarian mission to treat the needy on the Caribbean island. The mission is part of a global campaign by Beijing to portray its rapidly growing military as a responsible power.

• Wednesday, November 2nd 2011 - 03:53 UTC

  LAN and TAM move ahead with merger to be completed in early 2012

  

  Chilean flag-carrier LAN SA and Brazil's TAM SA have unveiled senior management changes as their plan to merge advances. The merger is expected to be completed in the first quarter, and will see the two airlines taken over by a new holding company, LATAM Airlines Group, the companies said in a statement.

• Tuesday, November 1st 2011 - 22:45 UTC

  Revelations on Chavez health condition were done ‘on request from the family’

  

  Salvador Navarrete the doctor who had to abandon Venezuela after revealing that President Hugo Chavez life expectancy is two years, because of a pelvic cancer, said he proceeded on request from members of the president’s family.

• Tuesday, November 1st 2011 - 21:12 UTC

  Latin America will demand at G20 summit greater voice for emerging economies

  

  The Latin American block arrives this week at the G20 summit in Cannes with a consensus spearheaded by the strong political standing of Brazil in global affairs and with criticisms to the way in which the European Union and the US are managing their respective “crises”.

• Tuesday, November 1st 2011 - 06:01 UTC

  IberoAmerican summit a “failure”: Latam has its own voice in world affairs

  

  Spanish media criticized harshly the latest Ibero-American summit in Paraguay last Saturday arguing that the non attendance of 11 of 22 leaders of the region can only be described as a failure of Madrid’s diplomacy and disrespect for the Spanish representatives.

• Tuesday, November 1st 2011 - 05:03 UTC

  Venezuela’s Chavez expropriates 290.000 hectares from the UK Vestey Group

  

  Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez has ordered the expropriation of 290.000 hectares (716.590 acres) belonging to a British-owned company amid a disagreement over compensation for earlier takeovers of ranchland from the firm.

• Monday, October 31st 2011 - 05:55 UTC

  Former guerrilla elected Bogotá mayor says reconciliation and peace are possible

  

  Colombians elected one-time guerrilla Gustavo Petro as Bogotá mayor, the country’s second most powerful post after the presidency, in a poll on Sunday devoid of the bloodshed that marked campaigning.

• Monday, October 31st 2011 - 02:51 UTC

  Unasur condemns presence of HMS Montrose in the Falklands

  

  The Unions of South of American Nations, Unasur, rejected British military presence in the Falklands/Malvinas Islands and again reiterated their full support for Argentina’s ‘legitimate claims’ in her dispute with the UK over the sovereignty of the South Atlantic islands.