Latin America News
Taiwan's Ma seeks to shore up Latin America ties (Straits Times)
23 Jul 2008
TAIPEI - TAIWAN President Ma Ying Jeou will make his first official overseas visit to Latin America in mid-August to shore up ties, the President's office said on Wednesday, amid an uneasy diplomatic ...
Cost Benefits and Broadband Penetration Are Driving VoIP in Latin America (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
23 Jul 2008
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina----Traditional local and long distance telephony operators in Latin America are facing increasing competition from Voice over Internet Protocol services, which are being driven...
FACTBOX - Biofuels Industry Grows in Latin America (Planet Ark)
22 Jul 2008
Latin America is emerging as an important producer of biofuels, taking advantage of good climate and soil conditions. The following are key facts about the region's biofuels efforts.
Brazil is a leader in a Latin America with leftist currents: McCain (AFP via Yahoo! News)
22 Jul 2008
Brazil should have a role as a leader in Latin America to counter "disturbing" leftist trends embodied by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez or Colombia's FARC guerrillas, US presidential candidate John...
NewMarket Latin America, Inc.'s UniOne Consulting Implements Oracle's BIEE for Brazilian Distribuidora de Medicamentos ... (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
22 Jul 2008
NewMarket Latin America, Inc. today announced UniOne Consulting has signed a contract to implement Oracle's Business Intelligence Suite - Enterprise Edition for Distribuidora de Medicamentos Santa Cru...
Kone Second-Quarter Net Rises as Asia, Latin America Sales Grow (Bloomberg.com)
22 Jul 2008
July 22 (Bloomberg) -- Kone Oyj , the Finnish company that supplies elevators to the London underground and the Grand Mosque in Mecca, said second-quarter profit rose 19 percent on higher new equipmen...
Study: Latin America's 3G services market to be worth US$36bn in 2013 - Regional (Business News Americas)
21 Jul 2008
Signals estimates that the regional 3G services market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 134% between 2006 and 2013. According to the consultancy, the rapid growth of 3G services in Latin ...
FACTBOX-Biofuels industry grows in Latin America (AlertNet)
21 Jul 2008
Source: Reuters July 21 (Reuters) - Latin America is emerging as an important producer of biofuels, taking advantage of good climate and soil conditions. The following are key facts about the region'...
IHG Expands Career Development Programs for Students from Latin America at the Panama International Hotel School (Centre Daily Times)
21 Jul 2008
IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group), (LSE:IHG) (NYSE:IHG) (ADRs) one of the world's largest hotel groups by number of rooms, has recently announced that as part of its career development program, it h...
GE Capital Solutions and Brunswick Announce Expansion into Latin America (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
21 Jul 2008
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill.----GE Capital Solutions and Brunswick Corporation announced today that they will offer an inventory finance program for Latin America.
