Chile's Bloomberg? Santiago-based Business News Americas is pushing to be the regions premiere online news service. (Strategies).

ITS 8:30 A.M. IN THE NEWSroom of Business News Americas, the online provider of Latin American business information based in Santiago, Chile. Reporters and translators--an array of Brits, Chileans, Americans, Brazilians, Australians and Swedes--hunker over computers, quietly summarizing news from the region's newspapers in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Maps featuring Mexico, Brazil and the rest of South America dot the otherwise barren walls. The smell of strong coffee from a communal urn fills the air.

Around 11 a.m., after the news summaries have been e-mailed to some 2,500 subscribers, phone chatter increases as reporters and editors start the task of generating …