Bahia, Brazil News

Chances are you have never heard of a capoeirista . But it's the name for artists who practice the dance form known as capoeira and they will definitely provide a jolt to your senses in Vail, Colorado Aug.

El Salvador's Cutuco Energy said Tuesday it plans after several delays to launch construction of its 160,000 cubic meters LNG regasification facility and 525 MW natural gas-fired power plant in El Salvador in 2011.

The Brit NGO New Economics Foundation has found the Philippines to be the 14th happiest place on earth.

Michael Jackson went from being Gary, Ind.'s most talented kid to one of the most recognizable human beings on the planet.

The presidents of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas nations Monday withdrew their ambassadors from Honduras and called on the nations of the continent to act against the coup in Honduras, after an emergency meeting in Managua.

" After 47 years, the Organization of American States, at its annual General Assembly, has repealed its suspension of Cuba's membership.

Many Philadelphians are familiar with Brazilian music and dance - samba, anyone? - and this weekend they'll also get a taste of Brazilian fashion.

The AH1N1 flu virus keeps on infecting more and more Ticos each day, with the total number of infected now at 93, according to the ministerio de Salud.

El Salvador's first left-wing president Mauricio Funes began his five-year term Monday with a ringing declaration that the Central American country's people "want change and change begins today" and promises to realize a "peaceful revolution" of institutional change and values amid cries of "Yes, we did it" and "The people united will never be ...

Newly inaugurated El Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes Cartagena of the left-wing Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front promised to launch a "peaceful revolution" to "reinvent" the Central American nation and lift it from the current economic and political crisis.

Mauricio Funes was inaugurated Monday as El Salvador's president, promising to work for the nation's poor and disadvantaged.

A Brazilian supreme court justice on Tuesday suspended a court order granting immediate custody of a 9-year-old boy to his U.S. father, extending a multiyear battle that has reached the highest levels of both the Brazilian and U.S. governments.

A federal court in Brazil has ruled that a New Jersey father should get custody of his 8-year-old son, whose mother took him to the South American nation after their divorce and died there, the man's lawyer said Monday.Attorney Patricia Apy, who represents David Goldman, said she was notified of the decision Monday afternoon.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton smiles as she greets other guests upon her arrival to the inauguration ceremony of El Salvador's new President Mauricio Funes in San Salvador, Monday, June 1, 2009.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton risks walking into what one analyst calls a Latin American minefield over ties with Cuba when she visits El Salvador and neighboring Honduras this week.

Brasilia, May 26 The presidents of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, plan to examine bilateral affairs Tuesday, with emphasis on industrial, agricultural and housing cooperation, and banking services for the low-income population.

There's nothing Hugo Chavez relishes more than addressing the nation for hours on end, and on Thursday the loquacious Venezuelan leader seized the airwaves like never before.

Tom Wuckovich SALVADOR, BRAZILa 'The sound is unmistakably the pulse of a drum. But listen carefully and you will hear the heartbeat of Brazil.

Brazil plans to finance over $4bn worth of investment projects in Venezuela as leftist President Hugo Chavez struggles to cope with low oil prices that have created a cash crunch for his Opec nation.

Brazilian authorities detained an Arab who ran a Web site forum that authorities initially suspected could be linked to terrorists and included anti-American statements in Arabic, a prosecutor said Tuesday night.