Latin America

• Wednesday, April 6th 2011 - 20:23 UTC

  Good outlook for Mexican manufacturing as the US economy recovers

  

  The increase in the Mexican IMEF manufacturing index last month suggests that the industrial sector has continued to benefit from stronger demand in the US, points out Capital Economics.

• Wednesday, April 6th 2011 - 18:44 UTC

  Argentina opens boat access to Tierra del Fuego eliminating Chilean crossing

  

  Argentina’s government is opening a new path to Tierra del Fuego that will give travellers, who once had to pass through Chile to reach the southernmost tip of the continent, the option of skipping Chile altogether.

• Wednesday, April 6th 2011 - 06:39 UTC

  Chile, Colombia, Peru launch integrate stock markets beginning May 30

  

  Operations of a joint stock market linking Chile, Colombia and Peru are scheduled to begin May 30. The group, known as the Integrated Latin American Market, or Mila, said Tuesday that the decision was taken following two rounds of successful testing.

• Wednesday, April 6th 2011 - 06:37 UTC

  Wikileaks knocks out second US ambassador in Latam: this time in Ecuador

  

  Ecuador is expelling the U.S. ambassador over a 2009 diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks in which the diplomat accused the country’s former police chief of corruption.

• Wednesday, April 6th 2011 - 06:32 UTC

  Venezuela admits an annual inflation of 27.4% in the last twelve months

  

  Venezuela's nationwide consumer price index (NCPI), prepared by the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) and the National Statistics Institute (INE), showed a 1.4% increase in March 2011 compared to February 2011.

• Wednesday, April 6th 2011 - 06:10 UTC

  Venezuela to begin shipping Argentina 12 million barrel of fuel in May

  

  Venezuela will send Argentina 12 million barrels of diesel and fuel oil starting in May, an official from Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA said.

• Tuesday, April 5th 2011 - 21:16 UTC

  Pop singer Michel Martelly wins Haiti presidency by a landslide

  

  Pop singer Michel Martelly better known as “Sweet Micky”, is Haiti's new president-elect. Preliminary results, released by the country's electoral council yesterday, show that Martelly won 68% of the vote in March 20 run-off election to beat former Haitian first lady, Mirlande Manigat.

• Tuesday, April 5th 2011 - 10:15 UTC

  Venezuelan business community concerned about full Mercosur integration

  

  The potential full membership of Venezuela in Mercosur, before formalizing its departure from the Andean Community (CAN) has Venezuelan entrepreneurs and several parties linked to integration “awaiting and in uncertainty” since they are not in touch with government actions on the issue.

• Tuesday, April 5th 2011 - 09:36 UTC

  Timerman begins visit to Israel denying any secret dealings with Iran

  

  Argentina’s Foreign Affairs Minister Héctor Timerman began his first official trip to Israel and denied offering to “forget” Iran's role in attacks against Israel's Embassy in BA and AMIA Jewish Community Centre in exchange for improved trade ties with Teheran.

• Tuesday, April 5th 2011 - 08:59 UTC

  Mountain glaciers in the Andes are melting the fastest in 350 years

  

  Melting mountain glaciers are making sea levels rise faster now than at any time in the last 350 years, according to new research. Universities at Aberystwyth, Exeter and Stockholm looked at longer timescales than usual for their study.