A Venezuelan commander contends Colombia wrongly detained four of his soldiers last week along the border separating the South American nations. National Guard Gen. Orlando Mijares says the troops were navigating the Meta River, which is part of the...

Swine flu has killed seven members of an endangered Amazonian tribe, an indigenous rights organisation says. Survival International said several hundred members of the Yanomami tribe in Venezuela could be infected. The Venezuelan government has yet to...

Denise de Oliveira lost her job as a janitor in June when she had to stay home to care for her 13-year-old son, who had pneumonia. The 45-year-old single mother of four has kept food on the table, however, thanks to a government program that pays her...

Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom has declared a “state of public calamity” to try to mobilise funding to tackle severe food shortages in the country. Officials say 54,000 families living in an area prone to extreme weather are in a...

Teresita Lopez is in hiding. “Somewhere in the Amazon” is as much as she is willing to reveal about her current location now she has been placed on the Peruvian government’s most-wanted list. The authorities in Lima have charged her...

In front of Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas in Rio de Janeiro, with a view of Christ, the Redeemer, is the site of one of the most beautiful stories of black resistance in Brazil. In the middle of luxury condominiums and high security walls, seven families of...

The state-run company that manufactures the island’s supply has warned that the economic crisis and a series of devastating hurricanes has left it unable to guarantee it will be able to produce or import sufficient supplies again until the end of...

A premature baby declared dead by doctors at a hospital in Paraguay was found to be alive hours later when he was taken home for a funeral wake. Jose Alvarenga said he had discovered his son was alive after he heard crying from the box in which he was...

Bolivia has enacted what animal rights activists are calling the world’s first ban on all animals in circuses. A handful of other countries have banned the use of wild animals in circuses, but the Bolivian ban includes domestic animals as...

Ships from Miami steam into Jamaica’s main harbor loaded with TV sets and blue jeans. But some of the most popular U.S. imports never appear on the manifests: handguns, rifles and bullets that stoke one of the world’s highest murder...