General Motors is setting up a new regional organization in response to rising demand in South America. The new unit, GM South America, will be headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Following five years of sustained efforts the Bolivian border with Chile has been swept free of mines, 22.988 of them that were planted in the seventies under the military regime of Dictator General Augusto Pinochet.
Vatican Foreign minister Archbishop Dominique Mamberti concluded an official and pastoral visit to Cuba Sunday saying relations between the Catholic Church and the Cuban governments are on a healthy course, reports the Catholic News Service.
Suspicious deals with Venezuela, a ministry with different areas of influence, alleged leaks to the press, a close alignment with Washington and in spite of his submission, probably too ‘autonomous’ for the Kirchner couple’s taste seems to have condemned the orthodox Jorge Taiana as Argentina’s Foreign Affairs minister.
As anticipated Colombia’s Juan Manuel Santos won on Sunday the country’s presidential runoff by a landslide, persuading voters with a pledge to continue Alvaro Uribe’s policies, the most popular leader of the country in the last five decades.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.