Security
Friday, October 2, 2009 - 00:00
High-powered guns purchased at Houston-area stores by a Gulf Cartel cell and smuggled across the border for the syndicate's bloody warfare have been traced to at least 55 killings in Mexico
Friday, October 2, 2009 - 00:00
A four-month effort to stop the flow of firearms from the U.S. to Mexican drug cartels has helped law enforcement disrupt various gun trafficking rings and gain a better understanding of how these groups try to avoid detection, officials announced Thursda
Friday, October 2, 2009 - 00:00
Bolivia has decided to invest up to $400 million in a plant to produce lithium carbonate at the vast Uyuni salt lake, believed to be one of the world's largest lithium deposits, its Mining Ministry said.
Friday, October 2, 2009 - 00:00
The world’s second largest oil company, Chevron Corporation, has served the government of Ecuador with a notice of arbitration for alleged breaches of the United States-Ecuador Bilateral Investment Treaty.
Friday, October 2, 2009 - 00:00
The oil giant, facing a $27-billion damage claim in a pollution case brought by natives in Ecuador, shops the case to The Hague in a bid to escape liability.
Friday, October 2, 2009 - 00:00
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn is confident that the fund will resume a "normal" relationship with Argentina soon, he said on Friday.
Friday, October 2, 2009 - 00:00
U.S. oil major Chevron Corp. (CVX) launched its first offshore production in Brazil earlier this year, betting that the company's entry into one of the world's most-promising oil patches will become a springboard to a larger role, and a hydrocarbons bount
Friday, October 2, 2009 - 00:00
A freak tornado and floods last month may be a harbinger of a troubled future for Brazilian farmers, who worry that climate change could severely disrupt production in one of the world's breadbaskets.
Friday, October 2, 2009 - 00:00
The political crisis in Honduras is having a crippling effect on trade in Central America, with Guatemala, El Salvador and Costa Rica losing millions of dollars of trade every day.
Friday, October 2, 2009 - 00:00
Former President Bill Clinton said a large turnout on Thursday at an investors conference in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, was a sign of hope for economic growth and job creation in the impoverished Caribbean nation.