Latin America

• Monday, September 12th 2011 - 03:17 UTC

  Chile’s Torres del Paine Park, world’s best for outdoor activities, says Wikiexplora

  

  Chilean Patagonia Torres del Paine national park has been nominated as the best place in the world for trekking and outdoor activities according to the latest rating from Wikiexplora, reports Santiago’s El Mercurio.

• Monday, September 12th 2011 - 03:04 UTC

  Corruption in Lula da Silva’s administration widely extended to all branches

  

  US ambassador in Brazil Thomas Shannon said the country suffered from “extended corruption” according to a diplomatic cable a year and a half ago referred to former president Lula da Silva administration and which was recently released by Wikileaks.

• Saturday, September 10th 2011 - 06:41 UTC

  “Politics in my country needs major reform” say 82% of Chilean 20 to 29 youth

  

  Impassioned youth across Chile have taken to the streets by the hundreds of thousands this year to demand radical education reform. Yet four months in, the students are no longer just talking about education costs and access.

• Saturday, September 10th 2011 - 06:34 UTC

  Latin American shares sink on Friday following global equity plunge

  

  Latin American shares sank on Friday as global equity markets plunged on fears a Greek default could hobble major European banks and deepen a global economic slowdown.

• Friday, September 9th 2011 - 22:05 UTC

  Mercosur and Mexico auto industry agree to jointly compete with Asia

  

  Mercosur and Mexico signed an agreement which virtually liberates all bilateral auto industry trade and opens prospects for joint undertakings world wide. The event took place in Montevideo, administrative capital of Mercosur.

• Friday, September 9th 2011 - 15:28 UTC

  UK will reinforce and expand presence in Latin America, says Hague

  

  The UK will reinforce and expand its diplomatic presence in Latin America beefing up embassies and reopening others that have been closed in recent years, said Foreign Secretary William Hague.

• Friday, September 9th 2011 - 15:00 UTC

  Oil discovery off French Guiana, “mirror” of Jubilee field off Ghana, says Tullow

  

  Tullow Oil has announced an oil discovery from an exploration well off the coast of French Guiana. The drilling encountered 72 metres of net oil pay in two turbidite fans.

• Friday, September 9th 2011 - 10:05 UTC

  Venezuela blasts US for drug-listing four close aides of President Chavez

  

  Venezuela strongly rejected on Thursday US sanctions against four close political allies of President Hugo Chavez as a “new action that is part of the permanent aggression Venezuela” by the United States.

• Friday, September 9th 2011 - 10:01 UTC

  Colombian guerrilla kill 13-year old girl for twice abandoning the group

  

  A commander from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, in the southern province of Tolima ordered the execution of a 13-year-old girl who had been turned over to the guerrillas by her mother on two occasions, an army spokesman said.

• Friday, September 9th 2011 - 09:30 UTC

  Peruvian families to take compensation claim for Machu Picchu to Unesco

  

  Two Peruvian families who say the government never paid them compensation for the expropriation of the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu and surrounding lands plan to take their complaint to the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.