South America News

The citizen initiative "14 million- Life, family and liberty" " [es], which opposes the free distribution of the day-after pill and other forms of family planning policy, has caused controversy among Ecuadorians.

The presidents of Colombia, Peru, Chile and Mexico meet in the western city of Cali on Thursday in hopes of completing a nascent trade bloc that looks to the European Union as a model and aims to further open their trade with Asia.

Argentines in the hometown of former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla are upset at the prospect that he may be buried there.

In this March 24, 1977 file photo, Gen. Jorge Rafael Videla is seen commemorating the first anniversary of the military coup in Asuncion, Argentina.

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.

The core of the latest Venezuelan crisis is not the rumored political division within the late President Hugo Chavez's party, nor the allegations of fraud in the last elections.

Last week, scientists published a study in the journal PNAS that warned that deforestation in the Amazon could significantly decrease the power output of hydroelectric dams, which are a major source of energy in the region.

WOLA has published an update on the talks between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia .

Rio de Janeiro, May 22 : Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer said Tuesday it reached a deal to sell 40 E175 passenger jets to US airline SkyWest for nearly $1.7 billion.

The Cidade Maravilhosa is a place known for the cultural and ethnic diversity of its people, and the music varies and blends as much as the inhabitants themselves.

The left eye of Julio Borges, a deputy in the Venezuelan National Assembly from the opposition party, Primero Justicia, is the best symbol of the way things are going in Venezuelan politics.

The Namibian government and a Brazilian energy company on Tuesday announced the first discovery of oil off the coast of Namibia, although not in commercial volumes.

They turn up to almost every demonstration in the Chilean capital Santiago and hurl stones, petrol bombs and even acid at the police.

Tom McNichol / special to The Star Members of the Brazilian Rotary Group Study Exchange Team arrived in Shelby May 17.

It was just about a day after Argentine strongman Jorge Rafael Videla had seized power in March of 1976, and the bloodletting was already beginning.

Local laws punish drug trafficking more severely than human trafficking. The sale of drugs carries penalties of between five and 15 years, while trafficking of persons for sexual exploitation is punished with a maximum sentence of eight years, with work release allowed.

Prime Minister Freundel Stuart made this assertion on Tuesday when France's Ambassador to Barbados, Jacques Sturm , paid him a courtesy call at Parliament Buildings.

A COLOMBIAN thief had a miraculous escape following a botched robbery caught on video at a Bogota bus station.

Colombian authorities announced Monday they will begin investigating "sex roulette," a newly discovered sex game played by minors that got a 14-year old girl accidentally pregnant.

Argentinian and Iranian representatives had already inked a memorandum of understanding on the "truth commission" to investigate the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people.