Bloomberg
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 - 00:00
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said yesterday talks started largely because France is willing to share the plane’s technology with Brazil. The contract would be worth as much as 5 billion euros ($7.2 billion)
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 - 00:00
Conatel, as the telecommunications regulator is known, today accused the network of inciting violence by broadcasting text messages from viewers in an on-screen ticker
Monday, September 7, 2009 - 00:00
A judge presiding over a $27 billion environmental lawsuit against Chevron Corp. in Ecuador stepped down from the case after the company claimed video recordings it obtained show he’s already decided to rule against it
Friday, September 4, 2009 - 00:00
Venezuela President Hugo Chavez said he will use a visit to the African nation to invite Sonatrach, Algeria’s state oil company, to help develop the tar-like oil of Venezuela’s Orinoco Belt
Thursday, September 3, 2009 - 00:00
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe cleared another hurdle toward running for re-election as the lower house approved a national referendum on changing the constitution
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 - 00:00
“We must prepare for the rupture in relations with Colombia,” Chavez said last night in comments on state television. “There is no possibility of a return with Colombia, an embrace.”
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 - 00:00
Parties across Colombia's political spectrum, including the Polo Democratico Alternativo, the Liberal Party, La U and Conservative party, rejected what they view as intervention by Chavez in Colombian politics
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 - 00:00
Ecopetrol SA, Colombia's state- controlled oil company, and unions signed a five-year collective labor agreement, averting the possibility of strikes as the company seeks to double crude output by 2015
Monday, August 24, 2009 - 00:00
Presidents from 12 Latin American countries will meet in Argentina this week in a bid to defuse tensions over the accord.
Monday, August 24, 2009 - 00:00
The bill calls for a binding referendum that would ask if the constitution should be amended to allow presidents to run for three straight terms