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At least 200 people were feared dead today after being buried under tons of mud when a slum on top of a former landfill gave way in the latest landslide to hit Rio de Janeiro.
This week 153 people were already known to have died in landslides triggered...
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The search resumed Wednesday for those reported missing in the torrential rains that hit Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state, killing 102 people and injuring 106 others, with scattered showers complicating rescue operations, the fire department said.
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A package of reforms put forward by the Brazilian government to improve human rights is causing growing controversy.
When he was a Roman Catholic bishop, Fernando Lugo taught liberation theology to uplift the poor. Now he is president, he has sent special forces into Paraguay’s northern forests to hunt kidnappers whose leaders include a former student and his...
Candido Godol, a small town in Brazil, has long astonished the world with its very abnormally high level of birth rates for twins. The rate is nearly a thousand percent higher than the global average: “the 80 households in a one-square-mile area...
The leader of a Jewish sect has been extradited from Brazil to Israel to face charges of abusing children in a purification ritual to expel demons.
Elior Chen fled in 2008 after two boys, aged 3 and 4, were taken to hospital with severe injuries. One...
Cuba’s workplace cafeterias are closing, President Raúl Castro keeps saying the well-off shouldn’t get the same subsidies as the poor, and now there are rumblings that one of the stalwart vestiges of the revolution — the ration...
More than 150 Venezuelan university students ended a hunger strike Wednesday after the Organization of American States agreed to hear their concerns over alleged political persecution by President Hugo Chavez’s government, a protest leader...
This year alone, two countries in Latin America have loosened punishment for personal drug consumption, and two others have moved closer to a similar scenario.
Just a few years back, this would have provoked an outcry in the US.
In fact it did then:...
Although the Brazilian constitution defends freedom of speech and Brazil has proclaimed itself a democratic nation, news released last Friday, July 31st, left many Brazilians wondering if their Constitution is worth the paper it’s printed on. The...
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