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March 20: Infrastructure may be a key issue in election campaigns throughout Brazil due to outcry in northeastern regions. Dilapidated roads and ports inhibit trade throughout the predominantly ag...
As the death toll rises in Chile so does the amount of homeless. Although the official count is somewhere around 350, reports keep filing in, estimating that it is actually somewhere around 700. Hi...
A size 8.8 earthquake hit Chile this past Saturday, being the third largest of the 20th century. Although this earthquake was bigger than the one that occurred in Haiti, it was less densely concent...
Fifteen people were killed this morning and at least twenty injured when a bus fell 100 feet into Lake Titicaca after going off the road at the edge of a ravine. The bus had been driving along one ...
A zinc/lead mine that was first excavated 1956 is slowly devouring the historic town of Cerro de Pasco in the Peruvian Andes. In the meantime, the area's 70,000 or so residents are suffering in lar...
Eight people were killed yesterday afternoon and ten injured when the truck they were riding in went off the road at high speed. The truck landed upside-down in the Cochoc River between Calca and S...
April 27: Brazilian economists believe it is crucial for the Central Bank to raise interest rates dramatically in 2010 due to unprecedented economic growth to maintain market equilibrium during an...
From Tico Times, May 3rd "Arias' last words: Costa Rica needs to push for development" http://www.ticotimes.net/daily.htm#story1 President Arias will be finishing his second term as President of ...
According to data released by the Ministry of Energy and Mines yesterday, Peru's electricity production rose 8.5 percent between April 2009 and last month. Hydroelectric stations are the main sourc...
