Brazil will have its second-best harvest in the nation’s history this year, the government said.
Chilean authorities will launch an investigation into the 1973 death of writer Pablo Neruda, a judge ruled Thursday.
A bomb exploded at the Greek Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, early Thursday, the state-run Telam news agency reported, citing federal police. No one was injured in the blast.
TAM and LAN, Latin America’s biggest airlines, moved one step closer to merger Wednesday in a deal that would form the third-largest airline in the world.
A fourth earthquake in 24 hours rattled coastal Chile early Monday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck southern Panama early Saturday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Tropical storm Bret continued to strengthen and came closer to the Bahamas Monday morning, but it began changing its path, steering east, according to the National Weather Service. It is predicted to turn northeast later in the day and head out into the open Atlantic Ocean.
A weakened Hurricane Rina trudged toward Mexico’s popular tourist beaches early Thursday, sending coastal residents fleeing inland.
Two high-ranking public officials were shot and killed in Mexico late Wednesday, making for four such attacks in the past two weeks. Three of the deadly assaults happened this week.
Peruvian judges are set to sentence Joran van der Sloot on Friday, two days after he pleaded guilty on all charges related to the killing of a 21-year-old woman.
Despite what has traditionally been regarded as a macho culture, Argentina has been viewed in recent years as a leader on gay rights issues in Latin America.
Small but powerful Hurricane Paula was closing in on the tip of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula on Tuesday after becoming a hurricane earlier in the day and intensifying to Category 2 strength, forecasters said.
In the unforgiving dry lands outside Lima a war against the desert is being waged with an unusual weapon. Where for years and years only parched land could be seen, patches of green have now appeared and roses are replacing some of the thorny desert plants.
Marisol Valles Garcia, the former police chief of Praxedis G. Guerrero, Mexico, who took office when she was just 20 years old, is in the United States, an official with Immigration and Customs Enforcement told CNN Monday.
High up in the Peruvian Andes an experiment has begun to revitalize an extinct glacier.
Peru declared a state of emergency in parts of the country after weeks of protests against a mining project, the Andina news agency reported.
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