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      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:01:33 (GMT -0400)</pubDate>
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         <title>Petrochemicals - Regional - Lanxess expects Brazil sales to grow at least 10% in 2010</title>
         <description><![CDATA[German chemical firm Lanxess expects to increase sales in Brazil in 2010 as a result of an improved environment in the country's chemical industry, Lanxess CEO in the South American country, Marcelo L...]]></description>
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         <author>Fernanda de Biagio</author>
         <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:14:4 (GMT -0400)</pubDate>
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         <title>Insurance - Brazil - BB committed to improving IRB, increasing share in PAC programs - VP</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Federally controlled Banco do Brasil (BB), Brazil's largest bank, will be committed to improving operations of reinsurer IRB-Brasil Re if it takes a controlling stake in the company, helping to guide ...]]></description>
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         <author>James Newman</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:24:36 (GMT -0400)</pubDate>
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         <title>Telecommunications - Regional - Latin America could see 22mn lines ported by 2014 - study</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Latin America could see 22mn lines ported by 2014, with Mexico and Brazil as the most dynamic countries in that regard, according to a report by Signals Telecoms Consulting.

Since 2008, four market...]]></description>
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         <author>Patrick Nixon</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:08:17 (GMT -0400)</pubDate>
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         <title>Water &amp; Waste - Uruguay - Authorities drawing up plan to prevent floods, store rainwater</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Uruguayan state-owned entities are working together on a plan to prevent floods and store rainwater to combat drought, an official from the country's public works and transport ministry (MTOP) told BN...]]></description>
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         <author>Eva Medalla</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:39:5 (GMT -0400)</pubDate>
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         <title>Privatization - Brazil - Cargill-LDC to be awarded Santos terminal by month-end, says Codesp</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Brazilian branch of US agricultural giant Cargill and France's Louis Dreyfus Commodities (LDC) should be awarded the 25-year concession of Santos port bulk cargo terminal by month-end, a spokesper...]]></description>
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         <author>Daniel Bland</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:49:10 (GMT -0400)</pubDate>
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         <title>Electric Power - Ecuador - Termoesmeraldas calls off Shushufindi feasibility tender</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Ecuadorian state generator Termoesmeraldas has declared void the bidding process to carry out feasibility studies for the 132MW Shushufindi thermo project.

The process was called off after no offer...]]></description>
         <link>http://www.bnamericas.com/news/electricpower/Termoesmeraldas_calls_off_Shushufindi_feasibility_tender</link>
         <author>David Casallas</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:55:32 (GMT -0400)</pubDate>
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         <title>Banking - Peru - All loan segments increase in October, mortgage lending hits record high</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Peru's private sector banks saw an increase in all loan segments in both US dollar and sol-denominated credit in October, as mortgage lending hit historic highs, according to a report from banking ass...]]></description>
         <link>http://www.bnamericas.com/news/banking/All_loan_segments_increase_in_October,_mortgage_lending_hits_all-time_highs</link>
         <author>William Schatz</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:08:17 (GMT -0400)</pubDate>
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         <title>Oil &amp; Gas - Argentina - New Gas Plus project to be announced - reports</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Argentine government is set to announce a new Gas Plus program allowing companies to sell natural gas at above-regulated rates, according to local press reports.

The new program could attract a...]]></description>
         <link>http://www.bnamericas.com/news/oilandgas/New_Gas_Plus_project_to_be_announced_-_reports1</link>
         <author>Christopher  Lenton</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:03:0 (GMT -0400)</pubDate>
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         <title>Info. Technology - Regional - Central America a bright spot for SAP's SME sales</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Software purchases by Central American SMEs are growing in spite of the global economic slowdown, the head of SAP's (NYSE: SAP) Mexico and Central America division, Ali Hamid, told BNamericas.

Sale...]]></description>
         <link>http://www.bnamericas.com/news/technology/Central_America_a_bright_spot_for_SAP*s_SME_sales</link>
         <author>Matthew Malinowski</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:31:28 (GMT -0400)</pubDate>
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         <title>Mining - Chile - Cerro Colorado union accepts pay offer, BHP Billiton avoids strike</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The union at BHP Billiton's (NYSE: BHP) Cerro Colorado copper mine in Chile on Friday voted to accept the company's pay offer to renew labor contracts for 41 months starting February 1, 2010, union pr...]]></description>
         <link>http://www.bnamericas.com/news/mining/Cerro_Colorado_union_accepts_pay_offer,_BHP_Billiton_avoids_strike</link>
         <author>Pablo Gaete</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:37:23 (GMT -0400)</pubDate>
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         <title>Infrastructure - Mexico - Macrobús PPS tender to be launched in January</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The tender for a public service provision (PPS) project to build the second phase of the Macrobús bus rapid transit (BRT) system in Mexico's Jalisco state capital Guadalajara will be launched in Janua...]]></description>
         <link>http://www.bnamericas.com/news/infrastructure/Macrobus_PPS_tender_to_be_launched_in_Jan1</link>
         <author>Catherine Setterfield</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:09:54 (GMT -0400)</pubDate>
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         <title>Metals - Venezuela - Uncertainty surrounds briquette companies due to nationalization delay</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Venezuelan briquette producers Matesi, Comsigua, Orinoco Iron and Venprecar, which are all in the process of being nationalized, are still waiting to find out what the government's official agenda for...]]></description>
         <link>http://www.bnamericas.com/news/metals/Uncertainty_surrounds_briquette_companies_due_to_nationalization_delay1</link>
         <author>Harvey Beltrán</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:15:25 (GMT -0400)</pubDate>
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