“If you add them all up I control 15 communities,” boasted Spiderman as his shiny 4×4 hurtled through the narrow backstreets of western Rio de Janeiro. Behind the wheel was Juarez Mendes da Silva, 28, one of the Brazilian city’s...

is now one of the strongest bastions of agribusiness on a global level. The world’s tenth largest economy, Brazil is now the nation which suffers the greatest inequality, on a subcontinent which, in its turn, experiences the greatest wealth...

Police say escaped inmates set fire to a prison, a public market and a cultural center in western Honduras before authorities stopped the riot and captured 76 of the 79 fugitives. Police spokesman Orlin Cerrato says officers shot and wounded 11 of the...

Former Navy Lt. Julio Alberto Poch, who has been held in Spain without bail since his arrest in Valencia in late September, will have a hearing before a high court in Madrid, a judge in Valencia ruled. An Argentine judge has asked that Poch be sent back...

Carlos Minc, the Environment minister of Brazil, claims increased policing have brought a sharp drop in Amazon deforestation over the past year, despite July’s jump in logging. Minc says there has been a 46% fall in the rainforest’s...

Brazilian carpenter Gilmar Alberto Wasckman, 46, was convicted this Friday, July 31st, by a popular jury to 16 years in prison for murder and cannibalism. He is said to have killed a man and then having eaten pieces of his organs and drunk his...

The Catholic Church (and Pope Benedict XVI) were presented with a public relations powder keg last March when news broke that a nine-year-old Brazilian girl underwent an abortion after she’d been raped and impregnated with twins by her stepfather....

The concentration of land in Brazil continues to be among the highest in the world. In the past few years, the agro-exporter model, based in agribusiness, not only compounded this concentration, but also aggravated the economic and social problems...

Venezuela’s Health Ministry said Friday it banned sales of Coca-Cola Zero because the company failed to declare that the no-calorie soft drink uses an artificial sweetener allegedly harmful to health. Health officials said tests show the cola...

he Panamanian authorities need more resources to fight sexual crimes in the country, especially now that organized crime has become involved. The National Police and the Public Ministry have detected cases in which local gangs have discovered that...