Security
Friday, August 1, 2008 - 00:00
When President Felipe Calderon opens the 17th International AIDS Conference in Mexico City on Sunday, he can rightfully boast that his country has one of the lowest HIV rates in the Americas. The percentage of people living with HIV-AIDS in Mexico is half
Friday, August 1, 2008 - 00:00
Mexican agriculture officials said Thursday that U.S. colleagues hunting for the source of a salmonella outbreak are rushing to a conclusion about finding the strain at a Mexican pepper farm.
Friday, August 1, 2008 - 00:00
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has announced a plan to nationalise Bank of Venezuela, one of the largest banks in the country. He has asked for a meeting with the bank's owners, Spain's Grupo Santander, for a meeting to agree a price.
Friday, August 1, 2008 - 00:00
As the cost of oil and value of the Colombian peso has surged this year, flower farms are turning to social programs to help workers
Thursday, July 31, 2008 - 00:00
Citgo stations throughout the United States are now selling Venezuelan java along with their gasoline, providing consumers with a bit of fuel for themselves while offering an important overseas market to the South American nation's coffee producers.
Thursday, July 31, 2008 - 00:00
President Hugo Chavez's authority to enact sweeping measures by presidential decree expired on Thursday, but lawmakers said Venezuela's National Assembly could renew it if necessary.
Thursday, July 31, 2008 - 00:00
Brazil, South America’s largest economy, is finally poised to realize its long-anticipated potential as a global player, economists say, as the country rides its biggest economic expansion in three decades.
Thursday, July 31, 2008 - 00:00
Mexico's central bank released a string of bad news Wednesday confirming that the nation is feeling the effects of a U.S. slowdown and exploding global prices for food and fuel.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 - 00:00
Mr. Daremblum cited World Bank studies that estimated the economic toll from organized crime at a high of 14.2 percent of gross domestic product in Central and South America
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 - 00:00
An increasing number of innocent bystanders have been gunned down by suspected drug cartel hit men here in Sinaloa