South America News

A serious fire on Friday destroyed 106 homes in a poor neighbourhood in Guayaquil, the largest city in Ecuador.

Luis Perry has traveled both his native Peru and the U.S., first making bracelets, then working as a laborer, a pipefitter and now a painter.

The occasional seasonal warming of central and eastern Pacific waters upsets normal weather patterns across the globe and occurs on average every two to five years.

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Tensions raised between two countries as troops dynamite rural walkways Venezuela claims are used by smugglers and militia Colombians walk next to a bridge that crosses into Colombia which was blown up by Venezuelan soldiers Photograph: Stringer/colombia/Reuters Venezuela has blown up two pedestrian bridges on its border with Colombia in the latest ...

Hollywood actor DANNY GLOVER is set to wed his longtime Brazilian girlfriend next month , according to Brazilian media reports.

A gang in the remote Peruvian jungle has been killing people for their fat, police charged Thursday, draining it from their corpses and offering it on the black market for use in cosmetics.

It has taken more than 30 years, but the government of Guyana has erected a memorial plaque at the site of the Jonestown cult massacre, a dark episode the South American country had long sought to downplay.

MALAYSIA is close to finalising its first Free Trade Area deal with Chile and the Latin American leader plans to sign it during a visit to Kuala Lumpur.

For the past year, President Bharrat Jagdeo of Guyana has traveled the world offering to place his nation's forests under international supervision if other countries paid his citizens not to deforest the tropical landscapes.

Brazil's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the nation's president should decide whether to extradite Italian fugitive Cesare Battisti, a former leftist rebel wanted by his native country for political killings in the 1970s.

When Charles Darwin visited the Falkland Islands during the voyage of the Beagle in 1835, he saw a wolf-like species, wrote about it in his diaries and correctly commented that it was being hunted in such large numbers that it would soon become extinct.

Colombia's police director says the son of notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar was directly involved in cartel business, even killings, rejecting the denials of a man whose reappearance is creating a sensation in Colombia 16 years after his father's death.

Brazilian Ministry of Mines and Energy said on Monday that the massive blackout which affected18 states of the country and neighboring Paraguay last week was caused by a short circuit.

Tensions mounted between rival South American nations Venezuela and Colombia on Tuesday as Caracas accused Bogota of detaining four of its soldiers in international waters.

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SAO PAULO - Brushing back freshly dyed blond hair as she posed for pictures, the Brazilian woman whose short pink dress got her kicked out of college said Tuesday she's enjoying her newfound fame, but wants to go back to school - with a security guard.

Small groups of Mapuche Indians have so rattled Chile by seizing forests, burning buses and attacking police to demand land and autonomy that the leftist government has turned to dictatorship-era measures to quell the violence.

Madonna has secured a $7 million donation from Brazil's richest man to help set up a children's charity in the South American country.

Sao Paulo, Nov 15 : US pop star Madonna broke into tears when Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista announced that he would donate $7 million for her welfare projects, a media report said.