The Colombian government said on Friday that as many as 1,371 anti-government guerrillas were disarmed in the first half of this year. According to a report released by the government, 1,083 rebels...

l alcalde opositor metropolitano, Antonio Ledezma, inició el viernes una huelga de hambre en la sede de la Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA) en Caracas para que el...

President Hugo Chavez's government has taken control of the nation's third largest bank, Banco de Venezuela. The government agreed in May to pay Spain's Grupo Santander more than $1 billion for the...

Santo Domingo.– Venezuela will pay $130 million for a 49 percent stake in Refineria Dominicana de Petroleo S. A., Diario Libre newspaper reported. According to the report, Dominican President...

CARACAS, Venezuela -- A U.S. envoy who was expelled last year by President Hugo Chavez said Thursday he hopes to re-establish dialogue after resuming his post in...

CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez's government assumed control of Venezuela's third-largest bank on Friday — making the state the largest player in the nation's banking system. The...

By Steven Bodzin CARACAS, Venezuela (Bloomberg) -- Venezuela and China Development Bank Corp. are discussing a third $4 billion infrastructure loan to be paid in oil, President Hugo Chavez...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA) -- Guyana is being recognised for its many creative initiatives as it works to show how sustainable development can take place in its country and no lesser person than the...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA) -- The free movement of Caribbean nationals within the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), one of the central goals of the regional integration movement, was once again brought...

CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) -- Venezuela pulled the plug on Friday on a publicity campaign against the left-wing government's proposed changes to property legislation that critics dub "the...

CARACAS, Venezuela — The head of Venezuela's telecommunications regulatory agency said Friday that 240 radio stations will have their licenses revoked for failing to update their registrations...

Vote CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The head of Venezuela's telecommunications regulatory agency said Friday that 240 radio stations will have their licenses revoked for failing to update their...

BG International will exercise its right to buy a 45 per cent stake in a natural gas property off the coast of Trinidad from Canadian Superior Energy Inc., the two companies announced...

Total SA's (TOT) second-quarter earnings will be lower than a year earlier due to the drop in oil prices, Total Chairman and Chief Executive Christophe de Margerie said...

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - July 3, 2009) - Maxim Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:MXM)(OTCBB:MXMSF)(FRANKFURT:M5H) announces today that negotiations with New Scotland Oil & Gas on the...

(Click to Enlarge) Petrominerales announced that the Chiguiro Este-1 exploration well is to be abandoned. Chiguiro Este-1 spudded on June 15, 2009. Drilling and logging operations were completed on...

State-run Vietnam Oil and Gas Group, or PetroVietnam, said Friday it will set up an oil joint venture with Venezuelan Petroleum Corp. in the second half of this year. The joint venture,...

France's Total SA and state oil giant China National Petroleum Corp. plan to bid for two large oil blocks being auctioned in Venezuela instead of one they'd previously shown interest in, two people...

SANTO DOMINGO.- Dominican Republic participates in Caricom’s 30th Conference of Heads of State and Government which concludes July 5 in Georgetown, Guyana, where the regional bloc’s relations...

London & New York: Oil prices hovered above $66 a barrel on Friday in light holiday trading a day after grim unemployment numbers from the US and Europe sent prices tumbling. By mid-afternoon in...

"The disparity in the economic position between Trinidad and Tobago and the rest of the Caribbean is sometime that is a source of concern," he told parliament last...

(07-02) 22:29 PDT -- Oakland set an all-time record for biggest international signing bonus last year when the team gave Dominican right-hander Michael...

NEW YORK — Oil prices tumbled to their lowest level in a month today following the release of woeful job numbers in Europe and the U.S. Benchmark crude for August delivery fell $2.58, nearly 4...

-(Dow Jones)- State-run Vietnam Oil and Gas Group, or PetroVietnam, said Friday it will set up an oil joint venture with Venezuelan Petroleum Corp. in the second half of this...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) -- The US ambassador to Venezuela has returned to Caracas, restoring diplomatic ties that were ruptured nine months ago with his expulsion in a row with President Hugo...

National Aquaculture Association of Guyana members innovative farming attend a feed workshop at Maharaja Oil Mill. Aquaculture expert Kevin Fitzsimmons of the USAID AquaFish CRSP facilitated the...

CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) -- Venezuela will demand that oil companies pay an high premium of between $500 million and $1 billion to participate in the development of the Carabobo oil block in the...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The Thirtieth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) opened in Georgetown, Guyana, on Thursday against the backdrop of the...

BOGOTA, July 2 (Xinhua) -- The National Health Institute of Colombia on Thursday reported eight more cases of the A/H1N1 influenza, which brings the number of confirmed cases of the disease to 101 in...

I just returned from a journalists' convention in San Juan, Puerto Rico where 700-plus working journalists, bloggers, students and members of higher academia took part in dozens of workshops at the...

The coup in Honduras that ousted President Manuel Zelaya has been widely condemned by the international community. The United States and other countries around the world are calling for his...

Colombian Special Police Force arrive after fighting with leftist guerrillas An Ecuadorean judge ordered the arrest of a former Colombian official involved in a 2008 bombing raid carried out in...

, the statement said. The new bonds will mature in five, nine and 12 years. The five-year bonds will yield an annual fixed rate of 9.27%, below the 9.70% the company was ready to pay. Emgesa will...

An act of the Venezuelan Oil and Energy Ministry assigning three new oil wells to the Belarusian-Venezuelan joint oil extraction venture, Petrolera BeloVenesolana, has been signed in Minsk. The...

CARACAS, Jul 2 (IPS) - "It never crossed my mind that I would have to leave my country and leave behind our farms, work, people and lifestyle. It was a life or death decision we had to take in a...

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in terms of 3G reach according to new research conducted by Global View Partners, a US-based research firm, in partnership with the GSMA, which represents the interests of the worldwide mobile...

CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - July 2, 2009) - Canacol Energy Ltd. ("Canacol" or the "Corporation") (TSX VENTURE:CNE) is pleased to announce that it has been awarded the Pacarana Technical...

BOGOTA -- A year after Colombian military agents disguised as international aid workers helicoptered Ingrid Betancourt and three U.S. military contractors to freedom, an offer by their former...

  For just a moment, in the early days of his presidency, Venezuela's Hugo Chávez looked almost like a healer. "Let's ask for God's help to accept our differences and come together in...

Interim Honduran President Roberto Micheletti Wednesday accused Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez of intervening Honduras' affairs. "The intervention of the government of Hugo Chavez is clear and...

Colombia reiterated its support to ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya on Wednesday, calling him the only "constitutional president of the Republic of Honduras." In a foreign ministry...

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka on Thursday raised fuel prices by up to 11%, but the increases were still insufficient to recoup the entire cost of production. The higher grade 95 Octane gasoline was...

Caracas, Venezuela » An ally was in trouble, toppled in a military coup. And the television cameras were rolling. The ousting of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya could not have been better...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma arrived in Guyana on Wednesday on a four-day official visit and is set to hold discussions with the government of Guyana, other...

  For just a moment, in the early days of his presidency, Venezuela's Hugo Chávez looked almost like a healer. "Let's ask for God's help to accept our differences and come together in...

comprised 100% of Inversora Pichincha SA and 99.98% of Interdinco SA. The U.S. company agreed to sell its whole stakes in those companies to Banco de Pichincha and other companies, AIG and...

AIG ), Wednesday said it closed the sale of 21st Century Insurance Group for $1.9 billion. The company also said it agreed to sell its consumer finance business in Colombia for undisclosed...

YPF SA has won a bid to explore for oil in offshore blocks near the coast of Uruguay, the company said in a statement late Wednesday. YPF will have a 40% stake in the exploration, sharing the other...

CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuela deported a convicted European drug trafficker dubbed the "Mafia's foreign minister" to Italy on Tuesday, where he has been wanted on drug smuggling charges since...