IT, media and telecommunications in Latin America

Hartford Web Publishing is not the author of the documents in World History Archives and does not presume to validate their accuracy or authenticity nor to release their copyright.

• The history in general of Latin America

Fiber Optics Network to Link Latin America

By Tito Drago, IPS, 12 May 1999. ‘Telefonica Internacional de Espana’—the largest telecommunications company in Spain and Latin America—and a U.S. firm plan to invest 900 million dollars to install a submarine fiber optics network linking all countries of Latin America, with connections in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

Eight billion dollars generated by Internet in Latin America

By Lilliam Riera, Granma International Havana, 27 October 1999. Contribution of information technology to the widening gap bewteen the rich and poor, North and South.