Latin America

Saturday, June 19th 2010 - 02:09 UTC
UN calls on Venezuela to withdraw arrest warrant against head of media network

United Nations special rapporteur on freedom of expression called on Venezuela to withdraw the arrest warrant against the head of the opposition Globovision television network, declaring that it had no right to silence critics.
Friday, June 18th 2010 - 05:43 UTC
Venezuela’s CITGO offering to pay 12% for a 7 year bond

US based CITGO Petroleum Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Venezuela's state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA), is coming to market with a 7 year bond and offering to pay 11.75% to 12% on the debt.
Friday, June 18th 2010 - 04:31 UTC
Cuba facing dramatic power shortage calls for ‘energy-saving’

Cuban Vice President Ramiro Valdes issued a call to “step up” energy-saving measures on the island in the face of the increase in electricity use in recent months, official Communist Party daily Granma said Thursday.
Friday, June 18th 2010 - 00:40 UTC
Brazil and Peru sign agreements to strengthen cooperation and energy integration

Brazil and Peru signed several accords which strengthened regional integration with particular emphasis on energy. The event followed a meeting between Presidents Lula da Silva and Alan Garcia met in Manaus, state of Amazon.
Friday, June 18th 2010 - 00:37 UTC
Salmon farming in Chile greater environmental threat than estimated

Salmon farms in Chile are a worse threat to the environment than originally thought following on unexpected results from a German scientific research team studying communications among whales in the southern Pacific along Chilean Patagonia.
Friday, June 18th 2010 - 00:16 UTC
Peru plans to boost oil production to half a million barrels in five years

Peru forecasts a liquid hydrocarbons production of half a million barrels per day in five years time, said Daniel Saba head of Perupetro the country’s company that awards and supervises all oil and gas contracts.
Friday, June 18th 2010 - 00:13 UTC
Veteran politician replaces Chilean outspoken ambassador in Argentina

Adolfo Zaldívar, the president of Chile’s Independent Regional Party (PRI), is now Chile’s new ambassador to Argentina.
Thursday, June 17th 2010 - 22:30 UTC
Less Europeans travelling to Chile, more Chileans visiting the old continent

The number of Chileans travelling to Europe is up sharply, thanks to the lower value of the Euro – down 9.74% between January and February of this year – which makes travel to Europe more attractive.
Wednesday, June 16th 2010 - 04:46 UTC
Chile’s most expensive properties cost around 3.700 USD per square meter

The most expensive residential buildings per square meter in Chile are located in the Metropolitan Region’s boroughs of Las Condes and Vitacura. In these areas, properties prices are double that of other boroughs such as Ñuñoa and downtown Santiago.
Wednesday, June 16th 2010 - 04:24 UTC
Unasur fearful of overlapping with the Andean Pact and Mercosur

The Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) Secretary General Néstor Kirchner said on Tuesday he hopes for the block to “create profound policies in the region” but without overlapping on other regional organizations such as Mercosur.