Jude Webber
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - 00:00
Most fares can be paid only in cash but getting coins has become difficult in the past year
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - 00:00
The area sown with wheat will be at a 30-year low and producers' groups say this will be compounded by a drop of up to 25 per cent in the 2008-09 harvest of corn
Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 00:00
Uruguay’s Congress approved a measure to overturn a 70-year old ban on abortion, but a presidential veto is expected.
Friday, June 13, 2008 - 00:00
Argentina’s debt levels are now higher than they were when it crashed into the biggest sovereign debt default in history in 2001
Thursday, May 8, 2008 - 00:00
Argentine farmers on Wednesday announced a return to their roadblocks just over a month after a crippling 21-day strike sparked by a rise in export tariffs, causing an immediate spike in international grain prices.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 00:00
Several thousand protesters took to the streets of Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires on Tuesday night after President Cristina Fernandez refused to back down on a tax rise
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 - 00:00
She marked the milestone this week amid protests from farmers over a rise in tariffs on the lucrative grain exports that are fuelling Argentina’s economic boom, and with a deepening debacle over alleged government interference in official inflation data
Thursday, October 4, 2007 - 00:00
A Chilean judge known for his high-profile stand on human rights cases ordered the arrest on Thursday of the widow and five children of the late dictator Augusto Pinochet on charges of embezzlement
Thursday, September 20, 2007 - 00:00
Nothing seems to be going right for Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet
Thursday, August 30, 2007 - 00:00
Chilean police used tear gas and water cannon and arrested more than 80 people in a day of protest called by the country’s biggest labour confederation