Paulo Coelho: ‘Today we are proud of being Brazilians’
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One of the most widely read authors of recent times, Brazilian-born novelist Paulo Coelho talks exclusively to CNN about what Brazil means to him.
Monday, January 18
Venezuela continues to nationalize private businesses, with President Hugo Chavez announcing late Monday that the government will take over two U.S.-owned Owens-Illinois glass-manufacturing plants.
Unless you live in Whistler, you wouldn’t know that a certain segment of the community is opposed to hosting the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Prosecutors asked Wednesday for a 25-year sentence for Argentina’s last dictator, who is on trial on charges that he violated human rights during his 17-month rule in the early 1980s.
The presidents of Colombia and Ecuador announced Friday they will resume full diplomatic relations after more than two years of estrangement.
9:56 p.m. — Tsunami warnings were canceled Saturday for all areas except Russia and Japan, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said. The cancellation does not mean it is safe to “resume normal activities or re-enter evacuated shoreline areas,” the center said. County civil defense agencies and local police departments will make those determinations.
Officials say about 40 people were buried in two landslides here. Four of them were Carlos Coti’s family members.
Leticia Lima was buried up to her neck in mud. Her forehead was crushed and her teeth knocked out.
Former Hurricane Richard continued to weaken Monday, becoming a tropical depression, the National Hurricane Center reported.
Brazil’s official football federation, CBF, fired its national team’s coach and his technical commission just hours after the arrival of the team’s flight at the Rio de Janeiro Airport on Sunday.
Like any girl her age, Julia Lira likes playing with her friends and siblings but one of her passions has put her center stage in a Brazilian national debate.
Gas accumulation triggered by intense heat caused a garbage dump explosion Tuesday in central Mexico, damaging about 100 homes but leading to no known fatalities, the state-run news agency reported.
Cuba announced a Cabinet reshuffle Friday, sacking the construction minister for undisclosed “errors” and removing the communications minister in order to give him broader oversight over various ministries.
Lori Berenson, a U.S. citizen jailed in Peru since 1995 for helping leftist rebels, has been granted conditional release, a judge announced.
Argentina became the first Latin American country on Thursday to legalize same-sex marriage.
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