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Columbian financial holding company Grupo de Inversiones Suramericana has registered a 250bn-peso (US$127mn) bond issue, Colombia's financial services regulator Superfinanciera said in a statement. ...

Chilean private firms and municipalities are considering installing the TrafiCam traffic camera system to improve transit management, public and private sector officials at the VIII Chilean and III Ib...

Chile's state copper producer Codelco plans to start a bioleaching operation, its largest to date, at the Radomiro Tomic mine in the country's northern region II in 2010, a source associated with the ...

Jamaica's national water commission (NWC) expects to launch a tender for the rehabilitation of the Mona and Hope water treatment plants by March 2010, engineering department head Anthony O'Connor told...

Latin America is entering the third phase of evolution of the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) business model, according to Signals Telecom Consulting. According to the consultancy, this phas...

Chilean capital Santiago's Autopista Central highway concessionaire is using advanced intelligent transport technology to eliminate errors in toll charges, company representatives said at a conference...

Excluding state companies Bauxilum and Carbonorca from the decree creating the Venezuelan national aluminum corporation was probably a mistake, Iván Hernández, the deputy ministry of basic industries ...

Brazilian independent oil company OGX will spud its third well in the offshore BM-C-41 block in the Campos basin this month, company CFO Marcelo Torres told a webcast. "OGX-3 will be drilled in a f...

Pampa Energía's (NYSE: PAM) deal to sell at least 50% of the power generated from the expansion of the Loma de la Lata thermo plant to state wholesale power market administrator Cammesa will add US$37...

Peru's mining sector is showing increased interest in sustainability solutions, the product development manager for SAP (NYSE: SAP) Latin America, Berenice Mendoza, told a conference call. "Mining ...

Brazilian tollroad operator CCR (Bovespa: CCRO3) reported a 185mn-real (US$107mn) profit for Q3, down 15.7% year-over-year. "The decrease in profit is mainly due to increased costs related to the a...

Brazilian banking group Itaú Unibanco (NYSE: ITUB) and Bermuda-based XL Capital (NYSE: XL) have announced a deal to hand over corporate insurance JV Itaú XL Seguros Corporativos to the bank. In a s...

Banco Itaú Argentina's investment banking and corporate finance arm, Itaú BBA, will most likely close this year with seven fixed-income deals on its books, and is expecting activity to pick up next ye...

Vancouver-based Candente Resource (TSX, Lima: DNT) plans to restart work on its Cañariaco copper-gold-silver project in the first quarter of 2010, the company said in a statement. Plans include fea...

Venezuelan state aluminum companies Alcasa, Venalum, Bauxilum and Carbonorca have still not received the funding for recovery as promised by the state-owned development bank Bandes and the Chinese-Ven...

Chile's state copper producer Codelco has approved going ahead with the basic engineering study, which for the company is also the feasibility study, for the transition to underground mining at its Ch...

The Venezuelan basic industries and mining ministry (Mibam) will install new furnaces in the long steel area at local steelmaker Sidor in order to produce the raw materials needed to supply the new se...

Chile's transport and telecommunications ministry (MTT) plans to use intelligent transport systems to monitor the use of public transport in the country's 15 regions, an MTT official said at a confere...

Colombian water utility Acueducto Metropolitano de Bucaramanga (AMB) has launched the tender for the construction of the first stage of its reservoir project, which will require a total 250bn-peso (US...

A solid third quarter in Latin America helped Spanish telecoms giant Telefónica (NYSE: TEF) post a 0.3% rise in net profit to 5.61bn euros (US$8.41bn) in the first nine months of the year, the company...