Latin America

• Thursday, October 28th 2010 - 05:32 UTC

  LAN profits soar and plans to invest 7.7 billion USD to double its fleet

  

  LAN Airlines which this week reported a doubling of third-quarter profit plans to invest 7.72 billion US dollars through 2018 to more than double its fleet as Latin American passenger and cargo traffic recovers.

• Thursday, October 28th 2010 - 05:01 UTC

  LAN Airlines completes acquisition of second largest operator in Colombia

  

  Chile’s flag carrier, LAN Airlines announced Wednesday an agreement to acquire 98.942% of the outstanding shares of Colombian airline AIRES, through the purchase of its parent entities.

• Tuesday, October 26th 2010 - 04:44 UTC

  An overwhelming majority of Chileans accept cohabitation before marriage

  

  Eighty-seven percent of Chileans believe that single mothers are capable of raising children just as well as married couples or mothers with partners, according to a recent survey. Support for men as single parents is similarly strong, as 79 percent of those surveyed believe the same of single fathers.

• Tuesday, October 26th 2010 - 02:30 UTC

  Unasur begins shipping medicines and aid to fight outbreak of cholera in Haiti

  

  The Union of South American nations, Unasur agreed to ship to Haiti medicines, drinking water and other needed aid to help combat the outbreak of cholera in the Caribbean island.

• Monday, October 25th 2010 - 03:18 UTC

  Haiti: A devastated country in the time of cholera

  

  With few signs of recovery nine months after Haiti’s earthquake, the country’s government and its main foreign-aid donors were forced to tout a rather underwhelming achievement—the absence of water-borne diseases like typhoid, diphtheria and cholera—as evidence of progress.

• Monday, October 25th 2010 - 02:39 UTC

  Controversy in Bolivia about the country’s proven gas reserves

  

  According to a recent audit commissioned by the Bolivian government and conducted by US-based consulting firm Ryder Scott allegedly shows that the country has only 8.3 trillion cubic feet of proven gas reserves, sharply lower than the range of 12.8 trillion to 26.7 trillion that has appeared in contradictory official versions.

• Sunday, October 24th 2010 - 02:36 UTC

  Rum sales overtake pisco in Chile. Beer tops the list of beverages

  

  For the first time, Chilean household purchases and supermarket sales of rum have surpassed those of pisco, according to Nielsen Chile data.

• Sunday, October 24th 2010 - 02:12 UTC

  Cuba outlines taxes to be paid by the growing number of self-employed workers

  

  Cuban government has outlined the taxes that will have to be paid by the country's growing number of self-employed workers. It is the latest stage of President Raul Castro's reforms to move Cuba away from a solely state-run economy.

• Sunday, October 24th 2010 - 02:07 UTC

  Chile promotes eco-tourism in bio-diverse Patagonia

  

  Chile's Patagonian region is home to one of the most incredibly vast expanses of virtually untouched ecosystems on the planet. Within this ecological haven lies a region known as the Aisén Region, a sprawling epicentre of glacial waterways and biodiversity, soon to be subject of a new ecotourism operation run by the Centre for Ecosystem Research in Patagonia (CIEP).

• Sunday, October 24th 2010 - 02:03 UTC

  Bolivia plans to buys vessels to operate from its Ilo port facilities

  

  Bolivian president Evo Morales is considering the purchase of naval vessels to operate from the port of Ilo on the South Pacific coast helping the country to develop for the first time in 130 years its maritime resources.