12 Feb 2012

Last week, we made some new friends from Central America. The children wanted to know where El Salvador was, and our new friend tried to explain, 'kind of below Guatemala and next to Honduras'....

7:16AM
5 May 2006

Oil companies in Bolivia reassessed their investment plans as regional leaders prepared for an emergency summit to discuss President Evo Morales' nationalisation of the energy industry.

4:42PM
21 Mar 2005

It is the latest nation to suffer unrest over free-trade policies

9:29AM
30 Aug 2004

Emboldened president launches new programmes, but critics want to know where it is all leading


President Hugo Chavez's resounding win in this month's recall referendum has thrown a...

3:04PM
1 Jan 2002

In Hong Kong


1967: The colony's population at the end of June was estimated to be 3.69 million, according to the Government Gazette. The figure represented an increase of 100,000...

10:34AM
4 Sep 1997

Taiwan's President Lee Teng-hui was yesterday making final preparations to depart today on a 16-day trip to Latin America to bolster ties with the region amid increasingly aggressive overtures...

7:35AM

In a surprise move, Taiwan's five Central American allies have declined to sign a bilateral free trade agreement when the President Lee Teng-hui visits the region in September.

4:14AM

US President Bill Clinton told the United Nations this week that every country in the Americas except Cuba had embraced democracy.

6:13AM

CUENCA: Foreign observers appointed to supervise a cease-fire agreement between Peru and Ecuador were scheduled to reach the disputed border today.


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