Latinamerica and the Caribbean will be expanding 4,7% in 2004, a full percentage point more that last April's forecast according to the World Bank.
The number of legal immigrants in Spain at the end of last September reached over 1,8 million, that is 12,1% above last January and with Latin-Americans as the most numerous community according to a report from the Immigration Standing Observatory released Tuesday in Madrid.
United States is determined to reduce its budget deficit said Treasury Secretary John Snow who admitted that the current misbalance is too significant.
China announced Tuesday in Buenos Aires that it intends to invest 19,7 billion US dollars in Argentina over the next decade with the money going mainly into infrastructure projects and home building.
Latinamerica is the world's region that less spends on defence as percentage of GDP, according to a report on the Military Balance of South America to be released this week in Buenos Aires and Quito, Ecuador.
Because of the strict security measures for this week's Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit to be held in Santiago, Lan Chile warns passengers that check in time both for domestic and international flights has been advanced to avoid potential difficulties or delays reaching the airport.
After a full year of preparations during which Chile hosted over 5,000 delegates from 21 different countries and six meetings at ministerial level, the culminating stage of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum began this week.
Israeli President Moshe Katzav has postponed a planned trip to Argentina in late November reported a spokesman for the president's office.
Six of every ten Argentine young adults live in poverty, nearly double the percentage in 1999, reported this week Buenos Aires daily La Nacion.
Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes won the Royal Spanish Language Academy prize for literature for his autobiographical work En esto creo (to be launched in English next February as This I Believe).