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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page South America News.Net http://www.southamericanews.net/ en-us Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:52:58 -0400 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:52:58 -0400 30 Bolivian President Evo Morales's administration plans to invest $124.7 million this year in projects that will expand electricity generation and supply the domestic market, a minister said. http://www.southamericanews.net/story/613367 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:40:01 -0400 IANS http://www.southamericanews.net/story/613367 Brazilian state-controlled energy company Petrobras plans to invest close to $400 million in Colombia over the next three years, Colombian business daily Portafolio reported Wednesday. http://www.southamericanews.net/story/613365 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:30:03 -0400 IANS http://www.southamericanews.net/story/613365 The body of Lucas Rebolini, who had been reported missing by his parents, Argentine actors Antonio Grimau and Leonor Manso, was discovered at the Buenos Aires morgue, prosecutors said. http://www.southamericanews.net/story/613358 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:20:03 -0400 IANS http://www.southamericanews.net/story/613358 Amman - Brazilian President Luiz Ignacio Lula Da Silva on Thursday expressed the conviction that his country and Jordan possessed the qualifications for economic "partnership" with the two private sec... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33264572&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:40:16 -0400 Earth Times http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33264572&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb The U.S. government designated 15 more Colombians and eight Colombian companies on Thursday as "Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers" for their ties to Colombian narcotics trafficker Daniel Rend... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33264640&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:38:16 -0400 Colombia Reports http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33264640&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Conservative opposition leader of the Spanish parliament, Mariano Rajoy, is traveling today to Bogota to meet with President Alvaro Uribe to discuss the alleged relationship between Venezuela and terr... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33264641&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:38:14 -0400 Colombia Reports http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33264641&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Women's rights NGO, Women's Link Worldwide, on Thursday filed an official complaint to the Colombian Supreme Court against Inspector General Alejandro Ordoñez for failing to "recognize sexual and rep... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33264642&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:38:11 -0400 Colombia Reports http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33264642&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Brazilian stocks fell Thursday, with a decline in commodities prices on renewed concerns about debt-stricken Greece pressuring the market's heavily weighted resource stock... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33264637&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:18:21 -0400 Market Watch http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33264637&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Ecuador (AP) — Sixteen Canadian tourists and eight Ecuadorean crew members were rescued from a yacht that ran aground in the Galapagos Islands, officials said Thursday. No injuries were reported... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33264638&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:16:27 -0400 Sun-Sentinel http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33264638&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Brazil's currency was weaker as well following a decision late Wednesday by the central bank to leave its key interest rate unchanged at 8.75%, a record low. The Bovespa index fell 0.8% to 69,161,... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33264635&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:50:50 -0400 Morning Star http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33264635&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Brazil's currency was weaker as well following a decision late Wednesday by the central bank to leave its key interest rate unchanged at 8.75%, a record low. The Bovespa index fell 0.8% to 69,161,... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33264634&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:50:46 -0400 Morning Star http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33264634&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Brazil's currency was weaker as well following a decision late Wednesday by the central bank to leave its key interest rate unchanged at 8.75%, a record low. The Bovespa index fell 0.8% to 69,161,... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33264636&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:50:39 -0400 Morning Star http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33264636&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb The Brazilian and the U.S. Missions to the Organization of American States (OAS) announced that their governments, as a sign of their commitment to Haiti, have each donated $250,000 to support Haiti's... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33261481&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:16:44 -0400 OAS http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33261481&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb LIMA, Mar 18, 2010 (IPS) - A priest who is touring the country in his bid to run for president next year, at the head of a leftist movement, was indefinitely suspended by the Catholic Church for getti... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33260585&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:11:04 -0400 IPS http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33260585&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb The chairman of Colombia's National Electoral Council, Marco Emilio Hincapie, announced Thursday that a new firm would be contracted to the task of ballot counting to replace telecommunications compan... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33261644&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:04:00 -0400 Colombia Reports http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33261644&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Ecopetrol, Colombia's largest oil company, submitted bids on Wednesday in the U.S. to acquire 19 oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico. Of the 19 bids, which were submitted by Ecopetrol's U.S. subsidiary,... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33261643&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:03:57 -0400 Colombia Reports http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33261643&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The Republic of Argentina plans to sell up to $15 billion in debt, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday. Proceeds will be used for th... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33261642&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:44:28 -0400 Market Watch http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33261642&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb 's 2010 grain harvest is on track to meet historic 2007-08 crop levels. According to a new survey released this month by the National Supply Company (Conab), the 2010 harvest is expected to yield ... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33260798&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:40:45 -0400 Earth Times http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33260798&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the richter scale hit the southwestern department of Huila on Thursday, however no casualties or damage has been recorded, http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33258654&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:39:23 -0400 Colombia Reports http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33258654&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Once Caldas are a big step closer to the next round in the Copa Libertadores following a 2-2 draw at Mexican side Monterrey late on Wednesday. The match, which ended after midnight Colombian time, di... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33258655&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:39:22 -0400 Colombia Reports http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33258655&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb The government may tomorrow give nod to Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and partners to invest about $2.2 billion in developing a giant oil field in Venezuela. http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33257916&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:17:41 -0400 Business Standard http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33257916&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Venezuela and Belarus have reached a series of agreements aimed at strengthening their energy and trade ties during Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka's visit to Caracas. http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33255251&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:18:31 -0400 Spero News http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33255251&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb is pleased to announce that it has entered into a mineral property option agreement with LeBoldus Capital Inc. (TSXV:LEB.P) whereby LeBoldus can acquire a 50% interest in Duran Ventures' Corongo Proje... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33255099&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:10:44 -0400 Market Wire http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33255099&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb The Company is pleased to announce that exploration will commence on the Pirquitas and Vallecito properties, adjoining to the north, east and west of Silver Standard's Pirquitas Mine. Additionally, an... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33255100&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:10:42 -0400 Market Wire http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33255100&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Colombian President Alvaro Uribe blamed political motivations for the U.S. State Department's human rights report criticizing corruption and abuses in Colombia, http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33255713&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:00:15 -0400 Colombia Reports http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33255713&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb reported CM& . In addition to Julian Guevara, who died in 2006 after eight years in captivity, the Ministry released information on the other three soldiers who have died in captivity of the guer... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33255715&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:00:13 -0400 Colombia Reports http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33255715&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Medellin police announced that since September last year they have captured eight criminal band members that are dedicated to the recruitment and training of minors to carry out illegal activities for... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33255714&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:00:11 -0400 Colombia Reports http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33255714&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb through its Ecuador subsidiary, Cornerstone Ecuador, S.A. ("CESA"), continues to advance through the permitting process required under the new Mining and Environment Laws to re-initiate exploration ac... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33252563&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:27:45 -0400 Market Wire http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33252563&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Well, after months of planning and weeks of hard week, the season opener in Brazil is over — just like that. At times, it felt like the days would never end and race day would never get there. B... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33253036&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:11:40 -0400 USA Today http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33253036&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Well, after months of planning and weeks of hard week, the season opener in Brazil is over — just like that. At times, it felt like the days would never end and race day would never get there. B... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33253037&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:11:33 -0400 USA Today http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33253037&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Relatives of two sisters who died in the Feb. 27 tsunami are suing Chilean government agencies they claim are responsible for the absence of an adequate tsunami warning. http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33250968&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:00:03 -0400 Santiago Times http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33250968&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb 3/17/2010, 7:07 p.m. EDT (AP) — WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Wednesday took to the Fox News Channel, derided by his White House as a wing of the Republican Party, to sell his embattle... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33248553&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:47:04 -0400 New Jersey Online http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33248553&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb In Belo Horizonte, Brazil Carlos Alberto Parreira strolled into the arrivals hall late on Tuesday evening at Confins International Airport, and immediately disappeared under a sea of Brazilian medi... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33246939&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:31:23 -0400 IOL http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33246939&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb (Bovespa: FHER3), Dalton Carlos Heringer, does not expect Brazil to achieve self-sufficiency in fertilizer production in the short or mid-term, the executive told a webcast on the company's annual res... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33246940&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:29:16 -0400 Business News Americas http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33246940&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Farmers in Brazil's northeast grow a bumper soy crop but lose millions of tons because the only nearby port cannot cope with the loads. In the same region, children spend th... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33244874&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:20:14 -0400 The Star http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33244874&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb La Paz, March 18 : Bolivian President Evo Morales's administration plans to invest 124.7 million dollars this year in projects that will expand electricity generation and supply the domestic market, a... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33242607&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:04:38 -0400 New Kerala http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33242607&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb She survived a skull fracture, several broken ribs and crushing blows to both arms. Her first two months in Florida foster care were spent, technically speaking, under the name ``Unidentified Baby Gir... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33242923&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:03:17 -0400 Miami Herald http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33242923&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Law & Justice On March 18th President Evo Morales invited members of the United Nations International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) to come to Bolivia and chew coca leaves with him to be “... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33242925&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:51:22 -0400 Bolivia Weekly http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33242925&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb The ninth annual South American games begin March 19 in Colombia, with officials trying to entice locals as well as visitors to watch by giving away a selected number of free tickets. The games are t... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33242924&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:18:28 -0400 The Independent http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33242924&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Colombia's Constitutional Court on Wednesday declared that President Alvaro Uribe's implementation of a "social emergency", his plan to reform to country's ailing healthcare system, to be unconstituti... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33240603&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:05:00 -0400 Colombia Reports http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33240603&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Brazil's Central Bank has kept a key interest rate unchanged at 8.75 per cent. The benchmark Selic rate has stood at that record low since July. Analysts are split on the ban... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33240257&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:03:55 -0400 Canadian Business http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33240257&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela's energy minister says the government of President Hugo Chavez is not planning to give up operational control of an oil refinery in Curacao. Rafael Ramirez says Venezue... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33240552&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:03:55 -0400 Canadian Business http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33240552&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Law & Justice On March 17th, former Santa Cruz civic leader Branko Marinkovic’s longtime personal assistant and right-hand man for 14 years Juan Judelka confirmed that Marinkovic was financ... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33240601&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:03:37 -0400 Bolivia Weekly http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33240601&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb (CNN) -- The Venezuelan National Assembly took up debate on Internet regulation just days after President Hugo Chavez called for online restrictions in televised remarks. http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33240599&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:56:10 -0400 CNN http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33240599&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb oil riches is heating up. The lower house of Congress voted last week to share the portion of the country’s royalties from oil revenues that go to Brazil’s states equally among the states... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33240600&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:50:57 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33240600&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Port-au-Prince - Joyful parents on Wednesday recovered the children that they gave to American missionaries about six weeks ago. The 33 children had been living at the SOS Orphanage on Port-au-Prin... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33238849&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:09:06 -0400 IOL http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33238849&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb South America's most famous opera house will reopen May 24, nearly four years after it shut down for a monumental restoration that has run two years over schedule. Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33238848&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:42:11 -0400 ABC http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33238848&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Drug Violence Kills 24 in Western Mexico In the border city of Juarez, Mexico, authorities continue to investigate the murder of three people with connections to the US consulate that occurred on the ... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33236580&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:35:18 -0400 VOA http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33236580&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Peru President Alan Garcia has fired his justice minister.Aurelio Pastor had faced calls to resign for allegedly providing unreliable information that led to the release of Jose Enrique Crousillat. Cr... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33236656&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:00:46 -0400 BBC http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33236656&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb global warming referendum, organizers said. "The only thing that can save mankind from a (climate) tragedy is the exercise of global democracy," said http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33236074&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:28:00 -0400 Yahoo! News http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33236074&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Authorities in the western Colombian department of Choco announced that an illegally armed group, thought to be paramilitary, is currently holding an indigenous community of some 300 people captive an... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33234131&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:54:46 -0400 Colombia Reports http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33234131&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb The air forces of Colombia and Ecuador will standardize their radars to improve surveillance capabilities over their border, in a move that furthers the normalization of diplomatic relations between t... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33234130&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:54:43 -0400 Colombia Reports http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33234130&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Colombia's benchmark IGBC rose 1.3% to 12,046.44 points on Wednesday, the first time it has ever closed above 12,000 points. Colombian stocks were lifted by the rally on Wall Street and other world ma... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33234129&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:54:40 -0400 Colombia Reports http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33234129&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb will see its exclusive contract with Visa expire at end-June, and Redecard has suggested for months that it planned to be up and running with Visa shortly after the end of that deal. Federico Rey-M... http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33234128&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:33:45 -0400 Business News Americas http://feeds.southamericanews.net/?rid=33234128&cat=1f5f6572907d15fb