Tag: Dakar Rally

• Thursday, May 23rd 2013 - 00:45 UTC

  Penn calls for Dakar rally to cancel Bolivia unless a US citizen is released

  

  Actor and humanitarian Sean Penn called for the Dakar Rally to cancel its debut run in Bolivia unless an ailing American businessman being held under house arrest there is released. Penn, a friend of President Evo Morales has angered Bolivian authorities with his request.

• Friday, January 6th 2012 - 06:48 UTC

  Dakar rally suspended because Andes snow storms prevent the crossing to Chile

  

  The sixth stage of the Rally Dakar 2012, the first one in Chilean territory, has been suspended due to intense snow storms that do not allow the trespassing of the vehicles from Argentina.

• Saturday, December 31st 2011 - 18:50 UTC

  The grueling three-country Dakar Rally takes off from Mar del Plata to Lima

  

  The 33 edition of the Dakar Rally got off to a symbolic start on Saturday ahead of a 15-day race that will take 466 registered competitors from Argentina through Chile to a finish in Lima, Peru.

• Friday, December 9th 2011 - 06:05 UTC

  Dakar rally 2012 takes off from the Atlantic and ends in Peru on the Pacific

  

  Dakar Rally chief Etienne Lavigne said that the next edition of the competition which takes off from Mar del Plata, Argentina next January first and ends in Lima, Peru, fifteen days later, is the most renewed and challenging version since the rally moved to South America in 2008.

• Wednesday, September 14th 2011 - 15:17 UTC

  CFK/Sarkozy summit in Paris talk trade and the coming G20 meeting

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner held on Wednesday a 45 summit meeting with her counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy on the third and last day of her official visit to France.

• Monday, December 27th 2010 - 08:46 UTC

  European vehicles for the Dakar Argentina-Chile Rally undergo inspection

  

  The Grande Brasile has arrived at Delta Rock, where the European vehicles participating in the 2011 Dakar Argentina-Chile Rally were unloaded during the night.

• Monday, May 3rd 2010 - 07:49 UTC

  Organizers Confirm Argentina and Chile will Host the 2011 Dakar Rally

  

  Organizers have unveiled the route for the 2011 Dakar Rally which will start and finish in Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires and include a section through Chile. The 33rd edition of the “the world's toughest motor-sport event” will be the third to be run in South America after concerns about terrorists moved the rally in 2009 from its traditional route through the Sahara desert in North Africa.