Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said on Friday his country had been removed from an international blacklist of countries who fail to comply with standards against money-laundering and terrorism financing.
British Petroleum, BP, is actively considering the sale of its stake in Pan American Energy LLC, Argentina's fastest growing oil and gas company, according to oil industry sources quoted in the Buenos Aires press.
Between January and May of 2010, Chile shipped approximately 12.7 billion US dollars in commodities to Asia; in this five-month span, 83% of Asia-bound exports were sent to China, Japan, and South Korea.
Venezuela will nationalize a fleet of oil rigs belonging to US Company Helmerich and Payne, the latest takeover in a push to XXI century Socialism announced President Hugo Chávez as he struggles with lower oil output and a recession.
Peruvian natural gas was exported for the first time this week from the recently inaugurated Pampa Melchorita plant, to the south of Lima. The LNG was delivered by Spain’s Repsol onto the Barcelona Knutsen Tanker and dispatched to Mexico.
Chile has moved up two spots from its 2008 ranking, accounting for 3.7% of wine world production in 2009, according to a report released by the International Organization of Vin and Wine (OIV).
Almost 63% of Latinamerican and Caribbean children and adolescents suffer some kind of poverty determined by the impairments which affect the full exercise of their rights and the income level of their families, according to a joint report from the United Nations Economic Commission for Latinamerica and Caribbean and the UN Children’s Fund, Cepal and Unicef.
President Hugo Chavez overhauled his cabinet replacing seven ministers so they can seek legislative seats in Venezuela’s September congressional elections, the government announced Wednesday.
The foreign policy of Chilean President Sebastian Piñera was criticized last weekend by one of his predecessors.
The Mapuche community, Chile’s largest indigenous group, officially celebrated its new year on Monday June 21.