South America News

The Colombian government said on Friday that as many as 1,371 anti-government guerrillas were disarmed in the first half of this year.

Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya said he was getting on a flight home to reclaim his post on Sunday, accompanied by the U.N. General Assembly president and a group of journalists.

THE body of missing North Yorkshire plane crash victim Arthur Coakley has been identified.

World Bank President Robert Zoellick met with the President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet , in La Moneda Palace, Santiago.

Falklands : Falkland Islands Tourist Board carry out improvements to public jetty Submitted by Falkland Islands News Network 01.07.2009 Stanley residents may have noticed work being carried out on the Public Jetty this month.

Seven members of the U.S. armed forces, including from left, Petty Officer First Class Sherwin Shane Shepherd, of Guyana, Sgt.

BOGOTA - Colombian pop star Shakira says after her latest album is born she plans to undertake a new labor: multiple children.

Soldiers ringed President Manuel Zelaya's modest home, spilled into the cul-de-sac and swarmed the neighborhood, blocking what little traffic there was in a posh corner of the Honduran capital so early on a Sunday morning.

The Canadian currency was on course for a fifth consecutive decline, the longest streak of losses since dropping for six straight weeks through Dec.

Chile's President Michelle Bachelet , Chile's Finance Minister Andres Velasco and Mexico's Finance Minister Agustin Carstens attend the opening ceremony of the Second Meeting of Finance Ministers of the Americas and the Caribbean.

Gov. Mark Sanford heavily mixed business and pleasure during a three-day trip in 2008 to Argentina to visit his lover, records released by the South Carolina Department of Commerce show.

Two events at the opposite ends of Latin America last Sunday seemed liked isolated events.

In this July 1, 2009 photo released by Sao Paulo's state prison affairs department on July 3, 2009, a live pigeon carrying a makeshift backpack containing a cell phone is shown in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Air France Flight 447 slammed into the Atlantic Ocean, intact and belly first, at such a high speed that the 228 people aboard probably had no time to even inflate their life jackets, French investigators said Thursday in their first report into the June 1 accident.

Brazilian officials say they've identified the remains of 21 more people who were aboard an Air France jet when it plunged into the Atlantic Ocean last month.

China is willing to make joint efforts with Brazil to boost bilateral strategic partnership, a senior official of the Communist Party of China said in Brasilia Wednesday.

Terrestar-1, the largest and most powerful commercial satellite to date, was successfully launched into geostationary orbit aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from the spaceport in French Guiana.

A supporter of ousted Honduras' President Manuel Zelaya throws rocks at police during clashes near the presidential residency in Tegucigalpa, Monday June 29, 2009.

THE STAGE seems set for a lively debate and, hopefully, a mature Caricom approach in seeking a practical resolution to the current emotional sparrings involving Barbados' "removal" of illegal nationals of the Community-the majority of whom happen to be Guyanese-under a new immigration policy.

Falklands : Summary of Executive Council Submitted by Falkland Islands News Network 01.07.2009 Executive Council has taken the decision to close Stanley Dairy Summary of Executive Council Meeting 25th June 2009 This month's meeting started with the consideration of a Project Initiation Document for a new port in the .