South America Travel News

Stock agents in Buenos Aires explained, 'The major banks operating in the country could announce in the next few hours that there will be limit to withdrawals of foreign currency with credit card abroad'. Financial institutions would be granted a nod to the Government in its attempt to combat the so-called 'dollar Colonia', ie Argentines travel to ... (more)

I am sure Brazil's decision to cancel the purchase of slave labor from Cuba has less to do with morality and more to do with internal politics, but we are happy the end result is the same.

Amazon has announced it's about to launch the Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HD 8.9 tablets in more than 170 countries worldwide, with pre-orders beginning today.

As David Kuch circumnavigated South America from January through April, he was updating about 800 followers on his experiences anytime he could get Internet access and send an email.

House of the Day : At first glance, this home looks like another stately 19th-century Brooklyn home, but it was completed less than a decade ago as a modern mansion with a historic feel.

Latin America is fond of carving itself up into an alphabet soup of regional trading blocs and political configurations.

Few places in the world provoke wonder like Patagonia . The expanse of land, carved by the Andes Mountain Range and reaching down to the end of the earth, stretches between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and across Argentina and Chile.

If you're traveling in Brazil, pop in a DVD and find yourself crazing pizza, then Domino's has you right where they want you.

Cagliari, Italy, May 17, 2013 / 05:05 am .- Father Giovannino Tolu said his heart began racing when he heard that Pope Francis will the visit the shrine he oversees on the Italian island of Sardinia, making it the fourth time he has received a pontiff.

Marshall Zelaznik Reveals Why The UFC Will Visit Smaller Brazilian Cities Posted by Joseph Lee on 05.16.2013 Fans will show up... UFC executive Marshall Zelaznik has told MMA Junkie just why the UFC has decided to hold UFC on FX 8 in Jaragua do Sul, Brazil, a city so little-known that he had to tell the UFC's Brazilian partners were it was.

Epecuen was submerged under 10 metres of water in 1985. Now the floods have gone - and 83-year-old Pablo Novak has moved back in.

"Cai Guo-Qiang: Da Vincis do Povo," his latest over-the-top roadshow, is traversing Brazil, with the current stop taking over one of the busiest intersections in Sao Paulo, as well as the interiors two cultural institutions.

A Brazilian investigative team, collaborating with a Simon Fraser University researcher, is citing an urgent need for targeted interventions among young crack users in cities throughout Brazil, identified as the world's biggest crack market, and further research to better address the problem.

As a child in Bogota, Edmar Castaneda and his sister took folk dance classes. Their mother made sure of that.

You can see the streets where he grew up and played soccer, the church where Jorge Bergoglio prayed as a teenager and the cathedral where the man who would become Pope Francis said Mass.

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The award-winning Grace Hotels has announced the appointment of Jui Kretzu as General Manager of Grace Beijing.

To keep up with the ever-growing multitude of backpackers that flood Salvador, the capital of Bahia state and Brazil's second biggest tourist destination, the city has seen an impressive increase in the number of hostels over the past few years.

During his relentless travel around the world over the past few weeks, seeking support for his candidature, the newly named director general of the World Trade Organisation , Brazil's Roberto Carvalho de Azevedo would have realised that the world is far more complicated than most imagine it to be.

A Brazilian investigative team, collaborating with a Simon Fraser University researcher, is citing an urgent need for targeted interventions among young crack users in cities throughout Brazil, identified as the world's biggest crack market, and further research to better address the problem.