South America News

Brazil has declined Iran's invitation to join OPEC, but could join the cartel in the future, the country's mines and energy minister said Thursday.

Santiago de Chile - At least four people were killed in southern Chile in the worst storms to hit the country in the last decades, authorities said on Wednesday.

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet Wednesday declared the regions in the central south of the country as catastrophe and agriculture emergency zones, due to days of massive rainfalls in the area.

Emergency crews used helicopters to rescue some of the nearly 100,000 people hit by the worst rain in three decades in southern Chile, where at least four people have died, officials said.

The Colombian government Wednesday expressed surprise for the arrest order issued by a provincial tribunal against President Alvaro Uribe and two ministers in a salary dispute with the government.

Iran has invited Brazil to join OPEC, Brazil's mines and energy minister said Wednesday.

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez is promising to help build a 14-mile tunnel through the Andes into Chile.

RIO de Janeiro police have found two caimans in a raid on one of the city's slums, saying the crocodile-like reptiles were used by drug traffickers to intimidate their enemies and dispose of bodies.

The three cars chased Hugo Bahamon's wife through the streets of Bogota for more than a half-hour, determined to capture her so they could blackmail Bahamon, a former Colombian army official who was helping ...

Great grandmother Teresa Castro, 84, is so glad she made it through the winter she joined thousands of other elderly Chileans for a party yesterday to celebrate staying alive.

Sao Paulo Gov. Jose Serra is proposing the construction of a new 3.1 billion real highway linking Brazil's two biggest cities.

PRESIDENT Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva inaugurated on Tuesday Brazil's first extraction of oil from deep waters which highlighted techniques to be applied to vast oil fields found even farther offshore at greater ...

Families clutched mattresses, chairs and other belongings and slogged through waist-high floodwaters Tuesday as Tropical Storm Hanna killed at least 13 people in northern Haiti.

SAO PAULO, Brazil : Brazilan police say they have arrested a man trying to deliver more 20 hand grenades and other weapons to a notorious criminal organization.

Argentina will pay its entire US$6.7 billion debt to the Paris Club of lending nations in a bid to shore up sagging investor confidence, President Cristina Fernandez announced Tuesday.

A power blackout hit major parts of Venezuela on Monday, including the capital and an oil-producing province, darkening buildings, knocking out traffic lights and disrupting plane and train journeys.

Opposition leaders demanded an inquiry on Monday into a report that Brazil's intelligence agency spied on the Supreme Court chief and members of Congress, in the latest scandal to hit President Luiz Inacio Lula ...

President Hugo Chavez's insistence that Venezuela doesn't need U.S. help in fighting drug trafficking is raising diplomatic tensions as American officials warn of a surge in cocaine flights out of the country.

Paraguay will reverse its historic support for Taiwan at the upcoming United Nations General Assembly, and also is reconsidering its relations with communist regimes.

President Fernando Lugo said his government wants to maintain diplomatic relations with all countries of similar interests.

'Paraguay's foreign policy will be independent under my government and will not accept conditions,' Lugo said in a local television interview Sunday.

Paraguay, the last South American country to recognize Taiwan, has supported the island since 1957, voting every year in support of resolutions to admit Taiwan to the assembly. Nations that recognize Taiwan don't have diplomatic relations with communist China, which considers the island a renegade province.

A car bomb exploded early Monday in Colombia's third largest city Cali, killing four people and wounding at least 12 in one of the deadliest urban attacks this year, authorities said.