At least 19 people have died in Brazil after flooding caused by heavy rain, the government-run news agency Agencia Brasil reported Thursday. The deaths occurred in Rio de Janeiro state in coastal southeastern Brazil. Nine of the deaths occurred in the...

A two-year-old boy has been hospitalized in serious condition in Barreiras, a city 858 kilometers (533 miles) from Salvador, capital of Brazil’s northeastern state of Bahia, with 50 needles in his body. He was taken to the hospital after...

Honduras’ president-elect said Tuesday he wants amnesty for ousted President Manuel Zelaya and for all of those involved in the June 28 coup that deposed him. “There should be (an amnesty) for all those involved,” Porfirio Lobo said...

Global warming, Honduras elections, Doha round of negotiations, these three items are just the beginning of a laundry list of matters the Brazilian government is not happy with in the Barack Obama administration. The magic is gone. This in the wake of...

Talking in Rome during a food security conference, Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva complained that the leaders of the First World give little attention to world hunger and accused those countries of sabotaging the agriculture of poor...

Venezuela on Thursday warned that the United States is aiming for a bigger military role in South America through an agreement with Colombia for expanded use of its bases. Tensions have been growing between Venezuela and Colombia over the newly signed...

“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...