Latin America

• Saturday, November 26th 2011 - 03:14 UTC

  After spending time in US and French jails former dictator will be extradited to Panama

  

  French appeals court ruled this week that former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega could be extradited to his homeland to serve time for crimes committed during his iron-fisted rule in the 1980s.

• Friday, November 25th 2011 - 04:34 UTC

  Largest container vessel to visit South America calls in Peruvian and Chilean ports

  

  The largest ever container vessel to have docked in South America is currently in Valparaíso, Chile, after having called in Peru’s El Callao and Iquique in northern Chile.

• Thursday, November 24th 2011 - 23:52 UTC

  Unasur Finance Council meets to agree on measures to counter the global crisis

  

  Unasur Economy ministers and Central Bank presidents will meet Friday to agree on measures to help the region address the impact of the global crisis. The meeting takes place in Buenos Aires hosted by Argentine Economy minister and Vice-president elect Amado Boudou.

• Thursday, November 24th 2011 - 18:41 UTC

  Chilean ‘Solidarity with Malvinas” group manifests public support for Argentina

  

  A Chilean ‘Solidarity with Malvinas” group visited this week the Argentine legation in Santiago to meet Ambassador Ginés González Garcia and express their support for Argentina’s claim over the disputed Falklands and other South Atlantic islands.

• Thursday, November 24th 2011 - 15:00 UTC

  The inequality behind Chile’s prosperity

  

  By COHA guest scholar Silvia Viñas
  Foreigners on business trips usually travel from Chile’s Santiago International Airport to the city’s financial center in the El Golf neighborhood via the Costanera Norte or Vespucio Norte highways.

• Wednesday, November 23rd 2011 - 20:40 UTC

  EU top diplomat calls for strategic link with Latinamerica and announces trip to the region

  

  The European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton described relations with Latinamerica as ‘strategic’ and called for an intensification of political dialogue with the region of which the EU is the main foreign investor.

• Wednesday, November 23rd 2011 - 20:01 UTC

  Argentina has great hopes with the Caribbean back in the Latinamerican fold

  

  Argentina has great expectations about the coming summit for the official creation of the Community of Latinamerican and Caribbean states, Celac, scheduled to take place next December 2 and 3 in Venezuela, said Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman.

• Wednesday, November 23rd 2011 - 00:44 UTC

  Uruguay business elite and officials reminded of the Asian-Pacific basin might

  

  It was to be a “complaints as usual day” plus the announcement Uruguay is poised for another year of record exports, close to 12 billion dollars. But the speaker contracted for the celebration of Exporter’s Day left the Uruguayan business audience and government officials quite surprised.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2011 - 22:49 UTC

  EU and Latam leaders call for quick conclusion of the EU/Mercosur trade accord

  

  European Union and Latin American leaders called for a quicker pace in concluding the EU/Mercosur cooperation and trade negotiations. The statement took place during the meeting in Brussels of the Euro-Latinamerica Parliamentary assembly.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2011 - 22:00 UTC

  Brazil makes official support for Uruguay in ‘fiscal haven’ controversy with G20

  

  Brazil’s Foreign Affairs minister Antonio Patriota said Brasilia supports Uruguay in its controversy with France following President Nicholas Sarkozy claim, at the recent G20 summit, that Uruguay was a ‘fiscal haven’.