Amazon plans to continue its international expansion by launching operations in Latin America in 2013, according to local press. Although the etail giant has not confirmed plans, Kindle content director Pedro Huerto was quoted telling delegates at a book fair in Santiago, Chile, that Amazon expected to enter the region. Huerto indicated that the first markets to be targeted may be Argentina, Brazil and Chile. Amazon had already announced in September that it planned to expand its cloud computing services to Brazil.
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