Chile needs to get used to more volatile copper prices, says Codelco’s CEO Thomas Keller. 

Half a century after the 1964 coup that plunged Brazil into a dictatorship, ghosts of the military regime’s economic policy still walk the earth, in the manipulation of prices to control inflation, and in an industrial strategy of choosing “national champions” through strong government support. 

President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner reported that the French government concurs as a amicus curiae (friend of the court) in support of Argentina’s request for review in the U.S. Court in its dispute with the “vulture funds.” 

Peru’s government has reached an agreement with informal miners that have been protesting throughout the Andean country over efforts to regulate their activities.