Latin America

• Wednesday, June 23rd 2010 - 03:17 UTC

  Chile’s Mapuche community celebrates the winter solstice New Year

  

  The Mapuche community, Chile’s largest indigenous group, officially celebrated its new year on Monday June 21.

• Wednesday, June 23rd 2010 - 03:13 UTC

  General Motors South America is born to cater rising demand in the region

  

  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.

• Wednesday, June 23rd 2010 - 02:08 UTC

  Chile announces complete de-mining of border areas with Bolivia

  

  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.

• Tuesday, June 22nd 2010 - 04:46 UTC

  Vatican confirms relations with Cuba are “cordial and on a healthy course”

  

  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.

• Monday, June 21st 2010 - 05:46 UTC

  The downfall of the ‘loyal, orthodox’ Jorge Taiana

  

  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.

• Monday, June 21st 2010 - 04:07 UTC

  Santos calls for unity and promises to improve relations with neighbors

  

  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.

• 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.