Latin America – Argentina’s economy may grow in 2010 (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Argentina’s economy may grow in 2010 (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Argentina’s economy could grow up to 7 percent in 2010 as the worst of the global financial crisis eases, Economy Minister Amado Boudou was quoted as saying in a local paper on Saturday.
Brazil Aims to Prevent Land Grabs in Amazon (New York Times)
In a huge stretch of the Amazon, the state has been virtually nonexistent, giving way to a brazen culture of illegal land seizures, often at the tip of a gun barrel.
Brazil Aims to Prevent Land Grabs in Amazon (International Herald Tribune)
In a huge stretch of the Amazon, the state has been nearly nonexistent, giving way to a culture of land seizures, often at the tip of a gun.
Argentina soccer player hurt, 3 killed in car crash (Sports Illustrated)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — River Plate midfielder Diego Buonanotte has been hospitalized with broken bones and other serious injuries and his three passengers were killed Saturday after he lost control of his car in the rain and slammed into a tree.
Argentina’s economy may grow 7 percent in 2010 (MalaysiaNews.net)
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s economy could grow up to 7 percent in 2010 as the worst of the global financial crisis eases, Economy Minister Amado Boudou was quoted as saying in a local paper o…
Chilean student who survived shootings tries to keep positive attitude (The News Herald)
MIRAMAR BEACH — Francisco Javier Cofre-Fernandez’s life changed dramatically the morning of Feb. 26. The once vibrant 25-year-old was shot in the face. He lost sight in one eye, lost his right arm and suffered facial damages after lawmen say…
Chile: In the Atacama, the world holds its breath (Independent)
It has no business raining. This is the highest, driest desert in the world. There are river beds here that dehydrated more than 100,000 years ago and have not seen a drop of water since.
Chilean Air Force Gets First Super Tucano (The Aero-News Network)
Aircraft Will Be Used On Tactical Training Missions Embraer delivered the first four Super Tucano airplanes, of a total of 12, this week, to the Chilean Air Force (FACH).
Needles successfully extracted from Brazil boy (Park Hills Daily Journal)
SAO PAULO (AP) — Surgeons on Friday successfully removed four sewing needles from the lung and near the heart of a Brazilian toddler, allegedly plunged into him by his stepfather during a monthlong series of bizarre rituals.
La Brea: Evita Argentina flies from last to first (ESPN)
Evita Argentina got off slowly but finished fastest of all, storming down the center of the track to rally from last to first to win the Grade 1, $300,000 La Brea Stakes for 3-year-old fillies on Saturday’s opening-day card at Santa Anita.
Brazil rules out devoloping atomic bomb (MalaysiaNews.net)
Sao Paulo, Dec 27 (IANS/EFE) Brazilian Defence Minister Nelson Jobim ruled out the construction of an atomic bomb in the South American country as a strategy for consolidating Brazil’s leadership in the region, local media said Saturday.
Local teacher joins geological project in Chilean desert (Englewood Herald)
While summer vacation may mean leisure time for some school teachers, Bill Gilmore packed up and spent three weeks traveling the desolate Atacama Desert in Chile as part of a team conducting scientific search for 12,000-year-old evidence of comet strikes.
Reporting from the streets of Brazil (Cape Cod Times)
As 2010 approaches, some of the Times staffers take a look back at the most memorable stories they
Argentina’s River Plate midfielder, Diego Buonanotte, crashes car (The Record and Herald News)
A bulldozer removes the car of Diego Buonanotte after it crashed in Arribenos, Argentina.
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