Latin America

• Tuesday, May 24th 2011 - 03:19 UTC

  Chile exhumes Allende’s remains to end a long standing controversy

  

  Investigators in Chile exhumed Salvador Allende’s remains on Monday as part of an inquiry into the former president’s death in a military coup 37 years ago. Allende died during a September 1973 military attack against the presidential palace that led to 17 years of dictatorial rule.

• Tuesday, May 24th 2011 - 00:54 UTC

  Euro troubles and slower growth in China and EU hit Latin American markets

  

  Latin American stocks fell to an eight-month low on Monday triggered by concerns that the Euro zone debt problem was deepening and signs of slower growth in China. The region’s largest market Brazil’s Bovespa ended at its lowest since July 2010

• Monday, May 23rd 2011 - 06:04 UTC

  Colombia’s oil company makes new discovery; plans to drill another ten wells in the block

  

  Colombian state oil company Ecopetrol said it made a new discovery at a well in the south-eastern Caño Sur block, of which the company is the sole owner and operator.
  The Mito-1 exploratory well yielded an average of 200 barrels per day of heavy oil in initial testing, Ecopetrol, which plans to drill another 10 wells at that block in the near future, said.

• Monday, May 23rd 2011 - 06:01 UTC

  Mexico Casterns throws his hat into the IMF MD election ring

  

  Mexico central bank Governor Agustin Carstens will be presented as a candidate for managing director of the IMF, the Finance Ministry said in an e-mailed statement Sunday.

• Monday, May 23rd 2011 - 04:13 UTC

  Colombia/Venezuela broker agreement for Honduras return to OAS

  

  Colombia and Venezuela brokered an agreement between Honduras's incumbent president and its deposed former leader to try to help the Central American nation be readmitted to the Organization of American States.

• Monday, May 23rd 2011 - 04:06 UTC

  Peruvian president says he’s rather fond of Chavez with whom fights are over

  

  Peruvian outgoing president Alan García said on Sunday that the days of rivalry and fights with his peer Hugo Chavez are over and admitted he’s quite fond of the Venezuelan president whom he considers a man “respectful of institutions and power”.

• Monday, May 23rd 2011 - 00:36 UTC

  Unasur defence strategic studies centre opens this week in Buenos Aires

  

  UNASUR (Union of South American Nations) Secretary General Maria Emma Mejia and several defence ministers from the region will be meeting in Buenos Aires this week for the official inauguration of the Defence Strategic Studies Centre, CEED, which is to become the first permanent body of Unasur Defence Council.

• Monday, May 23rd 2011 - 00:31 UTC

  Over 300.000 Cubans have opted to work in the private sector as ‘self-employed’

  

  The number of Cubans working in the private sector continues to rise and now includes over 300,000 as a result of President Raul Castro government’s economic reforms that have been implemented since last October.

• Monday, May 23rd 2011 - 00:25 UTC

  Chilean naval officers to court for kidnapping and torture of Anglo-Chilean priest

  

  Chilean Judge Julio Miranda of the Valparaíso Court of Appeals formally presented last week an accusation against 10 retired navy officers for the kidnapping and torture of Anglo-Chilean priest Michael Woodward.

• Monday, May 23rd 2011 - 00:09 UTC

  Argentina and Chile organize winter land SAR operation in Antarctica

  

  Argentina and Chile Antarctic organizations are planning this year’s edition of the Search and Rescue training operation which is scheduled to take place sometime between August and September in the Antarctic Peninsula