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Spot power prices on Chile's central SIC grid were up almost 90% year-on-year in August to US$182.6/MWh, investment bank Celfin said in its monthly power generation report.
The higher prices were d...
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Close to 250 professionals and technicians at Chile's CIMM T&S mining services firm started an indefinite strike on Monday after negotiations between the union and company failed, the treasurer of the...
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Seven firms have prequalified in a tender to concession Peru's US$410mn Majes-Siguas II irrigation project, according to private investment promotion agency ProInversion.
The first prequalified fir...
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The magnitude-8.8 quake that hit Chile on February 27 will impact reinsurers' risk quantification models, specifically in the business interruption segment, Swiss reinsurance company Swiss Re's senior...
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The Paraguayan government is carrying out pre-feasibility studies to structure a project to build a railway connecting the country with Argentina and Brazil, transport minister Efrain Alegre told BNam...
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The bidding for three licenses for spectrum in Costa Rica's 850 MHz, 1,800 MHz and 2,100 MHz bands could conclude in December and be awarded in January, if all goes according to plan, Sutel's head Geo...
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The total cost of gas cuts to affected users in Colombia in 2009 reached 140bn pesos (US$77mn), according to consultancies Itansuca and Freyre Asociados.
Of this figure, costs of programmed gas cut...
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The bioleaching plant that Chile's state copper producer Codelco is building at its Radomiro Tomic operation will be the first facility in the world to employ new technology based on the use of native...
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Chile's state development agency Corfo is stepping up efforts to plug technological investment gaps in the local mining sector, the head of Corfo's investment promotion division, Juan Antonio Figueroa...
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Brazil's Manaus state government expects to announce the winner of a 1.3bn-real (US$754mn) tender to build a monorail by September 15, a spokesperson from the state tenders commission told BNamericas....
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The opening of Colombia's insurance market to offshore sales in 2013 should not lead to a reduction in premium rates, Leonardo Umaña, technical director of local insurance association Fasecolda's tran...
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The UK's HSBC (NYSE: HBC) can do a better job in Chile by filling a space in the high-end market by offering global connectivity services than by trying to focus on becoming a large player as it is in...
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It's hard, if not impossible, to get to the bottom of the many layers of questions that the Mexican broadband spectrum auction has brought up.
Did the appointment of Mony de Swaan to regulator Cofe...
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Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez said this weekend that she feels “very responsible” following the International Press Institute’s decision to choose her as one of its 60 World Press Freedom Heroes.
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Colombian Defence minister Rodrigo Rivera ruled out any dialogue with the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) guerrillas after they killed five soldiers and 14 police officers, and called on the Army to get tougher on terrorist actions.
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For months, the men waited in isolation, struggling to survive. They forced themselves to eat the flesh of dead friends to sustain themselves.
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Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, wearing his green military cap and clothing like the commandant of old, made his first speech before the Cuban public since falling ill in 2006, warning of the threat of nuclear war.
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Ecuadorian state generator Termopichincha is gearing up to begin studies to advance development of the country's geothermal potential, a projects department official told BNamericas.
The work will ...
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Projects to fill the infrastructure gap in Latin America will play an important role in the demand for base metals in the medium to long term, particularly for copper and zinc, according to the resear...
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Brazilian federal energy major Petrobras (NYSE: PBR) might unitize some of the pre-salt oil fields given by the government in exchange for new company shares, meaning that some major fields like Iara ...
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