Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner held a half hour private meeting with Fidel Castro in the last day of her visit to Cuba and said the ageing revolutionary leader described US president Barack Obama as a sincere person.
Barack Obama will make history when he is sworn in as the 44th president of the United States - the first black American to hold the post.
In an unexpected move and only after six months in the job, Peru's Finance Minister Luis Valdivieso resigned Monday and later in the day was replaced by his predecessor Luis Carranza who is closely linked to the Andean country's praised economic performance.
When last December the British government put on hold plans to build an airport on the mid Atlantic island of St Helena, local councillors spoke of their bitter disappointment. But now a number of St. Helena residents say they want to stay cut off from the rest of the world, reports the BBC.
Brazil is estimated to have lost the equivalent of 27.8 billion US dollars in investments from domestic and international corporations as a direct consequence of the global recession, according to press reports from Sao Paulo.
With President Barack Obama's administration a new chapter opens and a new relation with Latinamerica begins said on Tuesday US ambassador in Argentina Anthony Wayne during a conference in Buenos Aires.
When Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th president of the United States, the wish list that has been building abroad may have grown longer than he or anyone else can deliver.
A former Chilean Air Force chief was arrested Monday on charges of embezzling nearly 2.9 million US dollars in a 1994 government deal to buy second hand Mirage Elkan fighter jets from Belgium and refurbish them, according to a Santiago court.
US President-elect Barack Obama has told a huge crowd of supporters at a pre-inauguration rally in Washington that anything is possible in America.
Brazil's president Lula da Silva said on Friday he would like to talk with US president elect Barack Obama before the government machine gets hold of him and expected the incoming leader would change his vision on Latinamerica and acknowledge the advance of regional democracy.