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President Michelle Bachelet of Chile announced Monday a $4 billion stimulus package aimed at fending off global financial crisis by beefing up public spending on infrastructure and providing subsidies...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Latin American stocks rose Monday as investors bet better than expected economic news from the U.S. would buoy local markets. Brazil's benchmark Ibovespa index climbed 3.2 pe...

Ingrain to open Brazil lab Offshore staff HOUSTON -- Ingrain plans to open its second digital rock physics lab. The facility will be located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and managed by Patricia de ...

Posted on: Monday, 5 January 2009, 13:59 CST The mystery of why ancient South American peoples who created the mysterious Nazca Lines also collected human heads as trophies has long puzzled scholar...

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Jan. 5, 2009) - Far West Mining Ltd. ("the Company") (TSX:FWM) is pleased to report the acquisition of 55 additional exploration claims in Chile. The claims ...

MEXICO CITY -- Latin American stocks rose Monday as investors bet better than expected economic news from the U.S. would buoy local markets.Brazil's benchmark Ibovespa index climbed 2 percent to 41,03...

BPZ Resources recently reached total depth on the CX11-15D well in the Corvina field located in the offshore Block Z-1 in northwest Peru. The well was drilled to approximately 6,459 feet vertical dep...

/PRNewswire/ -- GXS, a leading provider of business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce solutions, today announced that it has acquired Interchange Servicos S.A. ("Interchange"), one of

Fred Olsen Production through its subsidiary Knock Dee Pte Ltd, and El Paso Maritime, B.V. have entered into an option agreement whereby the vessel Knock Dee is exclusively retained for use as a float...

SANTIAGO, Chile -- Chilean officials say the nation's economy expanded 0.1 percent in November, its slowest pace since March 2002.The global financial crisis stalled business loans and slashed prices...

ASUNCION -- Dos líderes del izquierdista partido Patria Libre aseguraron desde la cárcel que el reciente ataque e incendio de un pequeño cuartel militar en el norteño depa...

SANTIAGO DE CHILE -- El secretario general de la Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA), José Miguel Insulza, regresó el lunes al país para anunciar su retiro de la ...

SANTIAGO, Chile -- A top Latin American diplomat says he won't run in an April presidential primary in his home country, Chile.Organization of American States chief José Miguel Insulza says in...

SANTIAGO, Chile -- Chilean officials say the nation's economy expanded 0.1 percent in November, its slowest pace since March 2002.The global financial crisis stalled business loans and slashed prices...

MEXICO CITY -- Latin American stocks rose Monday as investors bet better than expected economic news from the U.S. would buoy local markets.Brazil's benchmark Ibovespa index climbed 2 percent to 41,0...

— The mystery of why ancient South American peoples who created the mysterious Nazca Lines also collected human heads as trophies has long puzzled scholars who theorize the heads may have been us...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Transferred from Africa by the threat of terrorism, the Dakar Rally starts on Friday with a symbolic drive in Argentina's capital before heading out on an adventure...

Santa Cruz Beach Soccer Club and the City of Santa Cruz Department of Parks and Recreation today announced a partnership that will bring a beach soccer academy to Santa Cruz in the spring of 2009.

A man suspected of piloting a motorboat that struck and killed a New York winery owner as he swam off Brazil’s coast was detained on Sunday, police said.