Latin America

• Thursday, September 22nd 2011 - 21:17 UTC

  Decisive day for striking students and Chile’s class oriented education system

  

  Thursday’s march by Chilean striking students and their supporters may signal an end to an unprecedented four months of student unrest – if the number of demonstrators proves to be small.

• Thursday, September 22nd 2011 - 08:11 UTC

  CFK agrees to visit Chile after October 23 presidential election

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was invited to visit Chile during a meeting she held in New York City with her Chilean counterpart Sebastián Piñera on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.

• Thursday, September 22nd 2011 - 07:42 UTC

  Latin America and the Caribbean’s Long-Term Growth: Made in China?

  

  Robust growth over the past decade in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has had one new, key driver: China. The region’s relationship with the Asian giant has proved to be a critical source of stability, both during the global economic crisis of two years ago, the greatest since the Great Depression, and even the current market turmoil that is rolling across Europe and the United States.

• Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 22:08 UTC

  Cuban regime warns “corrupt and corruptors”; close friend of Raul Castro family arrested

  

  Cuba’s official press blasted the “corrupt and corruptors” more specifically “those scoundrels dressed in civil servant responsibilities” because they put at risk the island’s long struggle to make Socialism successful.

• Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 17:08 UTC

  World crisis “too deep” to be addressed by “a couple of countries” exclusively

  

  Speaking at the UN General Assembly, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff warned that a full blown economic crisis could be devastating for emerging countries as well as for the world’s largest economies. She added that the global financial situation could cause a “serious rupture.”

• Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 06:11 UTC

  Colombian Army uncovers 2.000 FARC landmines; most casualties civilians

  

  The Colombian army has found 1,961 landmines this year that were planted by FARC guerrillas in Putumayo, a jungle province on Colombia’s southern border with Ecuador and Peru, military spokesmen said.

• Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 05:36 UTC

  Ecuadorian high court upholds ruling sentencing journalists to prison and fines

  

  An Ecuadorian appeals court has upheld criminal libel convictions and three-year prison sentences for three newspaper directors and a former editorialist over a column that called populist President Rafael Correa a dictator.

• Tuesday, September 20th 2011 - 21:22 UTC

  Good grades for Latam in IMF report; Uruguay’s forecasted growth: 6% in 2011

  

  The IMF forecasts Uruguay’s economy will expand 6% in 2011 and 4.2% the following year. Estimates are in line with targets made public by Uruguay’s central bank.

• Tuesday, September 20th 2011 - 09:03 UTC

  Brazil deploys 7.000 troops along southern borders to combat organized crime

  

  The Brazilian government displayed this weekend thousands of troops with air support along the borders with Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay in a concerted effort to combat organized crime.

• Monday, September 19th 2011 - 22:07 UTC

  Bolivian president blasts the UN and the “Insecurity Council” on Libya

  

  Bolivian president Evo Morales blasted United Nations and the Security Council for having approved military actions against Libya, an issue which he promised to consider when he addresses the General Assembly in New Your.