The Peruvian Amazon has suffered a major dry spell with the Amazon River's water levels dropping...

By Moises Avila Roldan Copiapo, Chile - A faster drilling machine was being assembled on Saturday to enlarge an existing supply shaft to 33 Chilean trapped miners, as work on the main shaft...

Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega said Friday the country's gross domestic product (GDP) would grow at least seven percent this year, the highest in 24 years if achieved.In a separate...

Capgemini has placed a bet on Latin America, announcing on Thursday a deal to buy a majority stake in CPM Braxis, Brazil’s largest information technology services...

CORRE COYOTE, Mexico -- Times are good for the dope growers of the western Sierra Madre mountains. The army eradication squads that once hacked at the illicit marijuana fields have been diverted by...

The Colombian national soccer team left a good impression Friday, beating neighbors Venezuela 0-2 in an international friendly. After losing their last two games against Venezuela, Colombia hoped to...

KAYSERI, Turkey (AP) Aleksandar Rasic made four free throws in the last 11 seconds Thursday to help Serbia upset top-ranked Argentina 84-82 and win Group A at the FIBA World...

Presented by President Hugo Chávez as an instrument to make shopping for groceries easier, the ``Good Life Card'' is making various segments of the population wary because they see it as a...

The three soldiers were killed Thursday in two clashes with alleged members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in the provinces of Norte de Santander, on the border with...

is gearing up to begin studies to advance development of the country's geothermal potential, a projects department official told BNamericas. The work will target the Chachimbiro geothermal...

Colombian conglomerate Colpatria would be interested in buying back the 49.7% stake GE Money holds in its banking unit and may use the stock market to finance the purchase, a spokesperson confirmed...

) Efrain Alegre and Argentina's federal planning minister, Julio de Vido, will meet on September 10 to discuss dredging a binational stretch of the Paraguay-Parana waterway, MOPC's project manager...

due to future sales contracts signed at prices below current levels demonstrates a lack of knowledge regarding the industry, an inside source told BNamericas. The controversy started when...

regional manager for Latin America, Henrik Pedersen. "El Salvador is not that big a country and the two terminals by themselves are not that big. In my opinion, those ports should be run under...

, a company spokesperson told BNamericas. "The contract, signed at 12 noon [Sep 3] in Brasilia, entails financing for work on phase III of the Tiete river sanitation project in northern Sao...

The deal closed between Vietnamese mobile operator Viettel and Haitian state telco Teleco and its majority owner, the central bank of Haiti (BRH), to create a new telecommunications firm in the...

Duke Energy Corp.'s (DUK) Brazilian unit said Friday it is seeking authorization to change its company statute in order to expand beyond hydroelectric power...

Bogota - Colombian police seized a little over 1 ton of cocaine hidden in two trucks, officials said Friday.Police said the drugs were hidden in the fake bottom of the trucks, which were stopped at a...

Colombian pop star Juanes will be a spokesman for peace in Medellin, which is suffering a wave of violence due to gangs battling for control of the city. In a telephone conversation with Medellin...

Law & Justice In the recently released Jurisdictional Definition Law drawn up by the Vice-Ministery of Indigenous Justice, jurisdiction over cases involving public corruption, drug-trafficking,...

(NYSE: PBR) is expensive enough to fend off most minority shareholders from the capitalization process, Erick Scott Hood, an analyst at SLW Corretora, told BNamericas. According to the...

expects to improve production levels in H2, a Sintralcasa union official told BNamericas. "The goal is to produce about 7,000t/m of rolled products and 3,000t/m of cylinders, incorporating 30...

are working on projects worth some US$80mn to reduce the country's water and sanitation deficit, public works and communications minister Efrain Alegre told BNamericas. The projects will be...

is considering issuing a catastrophe (cat) bond or raising catastrophic funds as financing alternatives against natural disasters, as well as developing lower-cost earthquake premiums, SVS head...

The Central American software cluster has set the European market atop its priority list, with prime export opportunities in recovering economies such as Germany and Switzerland, the director...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 3, 2010 (IPS) - Sugarcane could replace the energy produced by three hydroelectric dams like the Belo Monte in the Amazon, claims the Brazilian sugarcane industry, which remains...

Caribbean archipelago of San Andres, Providencia and Serrana belongs to Nicaragua. "I am certain that President Juan Manuel Santos knows that San Andres and its islands belongs to Nicaragua," Ortega...

The Colombian Liga Postobon continues this weekend with several clashes that could reshape the top of the table. The action starts on Friday with fifth-place La Equidad hosting troubled America de...

Colombian Judge Jenny Jimenez, who was criticized by former President Alvaro Uribe for issuing an arrest warrant against a former government official, plans to seek protection from the U.N. after...

A takeover battle is brewing between Canadian gold companies Goldcorp Inc. and Eldorado Gold Corp. over the U.S. owner of a promising mine in Argentina. Goldcorp. said Friday it has found a "perfect...

YOKOHAMA — World Cup captain Makoto Hasebe has pulled out of Japan’s friendlies against Paraguay and Guatemala because of a bruised calf muscle, the Japan Football Association announced...

Alleged wiretapping hearings lead by a politician, the shutdown of an Internet provider and the investigation of a newsprint factory have all occurred in Argentina over the last few days. They all...

After a period of steady decline, Colombia has seen an increase in oil production due to Colombian government efforts to curb drug and insurgent-related violence in the country and implement...

Suspected leftist rebels killed 14 police officers and wounded seven in an ambush of a five-truck convoy in southern Colombia, a police commander said Thursday. Elsewhere in the country, two separate...

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos Friday condemned the FARC attack in Colombia's Caqueta department in which fourteen policemen were killed. "My heart is with the families of these heroes of...

seized a ton of high quality cocaine on the Magdalena Medio highway between the municipality of Puerto Boyaca in the Boyaca department and Cimitarra, Santander. Police commander General Orlando...

Eleven guerrillas were killed and one was injured in an attack by Colombia's Air Force in the eastern department of Arauca, the army announced on Friday. The commander of the National Army's 8th...

CARACAS (Reuters) - Children tussle after dark on a dusty soccer field used just weeks ago as a shooting range by local drug gangs, a sign that a new police force is making a mark on one of...

Cuba's leader Fidel Castro, left, grips the arm of a bodyguard as he arrives to deliver a speech to students outside Havana's University in Havana, Cuba, 3 Sep...

Eldorado Gold , another Canadian miner. Shares in gold miners have been buoyed this year by record prices as investors switched into the precious metal as a haven against turmoil in financial...

Colombia's Interior and Justice Minister said on Friday the government will relaunch its security policy to counter soaring violence in cities and guerrilla attacks in the countryside. Minister...

Bernardo Moreno, the personal secretary of former President Alvaro Uribe, left Colombia while authorities are in the middle of a criminal investigation against him, one of the prosecutors told...

Sept. 3 (Bloomberg) -- The Argentine currency’s record losing streak is dragging peso-denominated warrants tracking economic growth to the lowest in five months relative to those priced in...

Sept. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega is failing to convince currency traders that the real is poised to slump as foreign investment pours into the country’s stock and...

Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras on Friday unveiled a huge share offering which could raise 64 billion dollars to help finance new exploration projects in the country. Some 2.1 million...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) – Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras on Friday unveiled a huge share offering which could raise 64 billion dollars to help finance new exploration projects in the...

will offer a total of 3.75 billion shares, of which 2.17 billion would be voting stock and 1.58 billion would be preferred shares, the company said Friday in a statement. Based on Thursday's...