Latin America

• Tuesday, September 6th 2011 - 06:34 UTC

  Colombia’s new defence minister is President Santos closest aide

  

  Colombia’s new defence minister vowed on Monday a forceful response to illegal armed groups and more innovation in confronting guerrillas and drug barons in the country.

• Tuesday, September 6th 2011 - 06:24 UTC

  Colombia’s largest retailer launches stock sale to fund expansion in Uruguay

  

  Colombia's largest retailer Almacenes Exito SA launched a 2.5 trillion peso (1.4 billion dollars) stock sale for local and foreign investors Monday, the proceeds of which will be used to expand into Uruguay and elsewhere.

• Tuesday, September 6th 2011 - 06:21 UTC

  Latam stocks down; the Real slides to 1.65 dollars

  

  Latin American stocks fell on Monday as fears of a recession in Europe and the United States mixed with anxiety about the health of global banks to drive indexes below support levels, suggesting more losses.

• Monday, September 5th 2011 - 10:02 UTC

  Defense minister and lose aide of Raul Castro dies; 3 days national mourning

  

  Gen. Julio Casas Regueiro, an accountant who fought in Cuba's revolution, then used his training to run the military's lucrative economic enterprises for two decades before becoming defense minister, has died, state television reported. He was 75.

• Monday, September 5th 2011 - 05:56 UTC

  Two-day national mourning in Chile for the victims of the plane crash at sea

  

  Chile on Sunday declared two days of national mourning after rescuers gave up hope for 21 people believed killed when an air force plane crashed off Juan Fernandez (Robinson Crusoe) Island in the Pacific.

• Monday, September 5th 2011 - 03:05 UTC

  Chilean students will assess Piñera road map for education reform before next meeting

  

  Chile's student organizations are waiting for the road map promised for Monday by government authorities following Saturday’s meeting with President Sebastian Piñera for nearly four hours in the government palace.

• Sunday, September 4th 2011 - 00:36 UTC

  Chile's Juan Fernadez plane crash, four bodies found

  

  After the first four bodies were salvaged from the Chilean aircraft and new parts of the fuselage were found, near Juan Fernández islands, Mayor Leopoldo González deemed it impossible that there are any survivors to the accident. “The plane is 26 metres below the sea,” he explaine.

• Saturday, September 3rd 2011 - 08:19 UTC

  Did Argentina Trade Visas for Holocaust Loot?

  

  A new book about the darker side of Latin-American politics alleges some disturbing dealings between Argentina and Hitler’s cronies.

• Saturday, September 3rd 2011 - 07:58 UTC

  Chilean military plane with 21 people crashes near Juan Fernandez Island

  

  A military plane with 21 people aboard went missing off Chile's Pacific coast near the Juan Fernandez Islands, authorities said on Friday.

• Saturday, September 3rd 2011 - 07:55 UTC

  Chile’s top cop steps down following disclosure of cover-up operation

  

  Chile’s Carabineros police force General Director Eduardo Gordon resigned his position Friday morning following an exposé by investigative journalism website CIPER that alleged Gordon had covered up his son’s involvement in a hit-and-run accident in July of last year.