South America News

Future soldier Gabrielle Alejandrino slowly does a set of crunches - up and down on the damp soccer field at Coral Springs Park, urged on by her unusually close Army buddy.

Submitted by News Account on 27 June 2008 - 11:33pm. Genetics In general, domesticated food plants have larger fruits, heads of grain, tubers, etc, because this is one of the characteristics that early ...

A convoy of Mexican Army military vehicles arrives at Nocupetaro, Morelia, Thursday, June 19, 2008.

The US and Brazil yesterday announced an enhanced air services agreement that will provide for a nearly 50% increase in passenger flights between the countries while eliminating restrictions on the number of ...

Jun. 26 - Dozens of residents of the Chilean village of Chaiten visit their abandoned homes for the first time since a May 2nd volcanic eruption left the town flooded in volcanic ash.

In this Feb. 2007 photo released by the International Fund For Animals Welfare , a humpback whale swims in the Silver Bank whale sanctuary, a breeding zone of humpback whales just north of the Dominican ...

RIO DE JANEIRO: A sharp increase in drugs and cellphones found inside a Brazilian prison mystified officials - until guards spotted some distressed pigeons struggling to stay airborne.

BUENAVENTURA, Colombia - Colombians who thought they had seen everything in the war on drugs were treated to something new this year: cocaine smuggling in a submarine.In images shown on ...

The U.S. Geological Survey says it is working with the Chilean government to develop a volcano early warning and emergency response system.

Ecuador will not resume diplomatic ties with Colombia after the latter decided to postpone renewal of relations, Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Maria Isabel Salvador said Tuesday.

A former Colombian lawmaker who said she took bribes to enable the re-election of President Alvaro Uribe just got a tough sentence.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Tuesday he wants to show his support for Colombia's anti-drug efforts and a pending free-trade agreement with the U.S. by visiting the South American ally.In ...

Claudia Negron knows exactly what she'll do after she graduates from the University of California at Davis: return to her country, Chile, to put in practice the lessons she's learned about agriculture.

We tend to judge this year's food crisis, marked by seemingly indomitable prices, from the point of view of those who are suffering.

By Stuart Grudgings Reuters Tuesday, June 24, 2008; 8:14 PM RIO DE JANEIRO - When Paolo Portinho meets up with his musician friends for a night out in Rio de Janeiro, they jam a few tunes and knock back some ...

It's earth's most remote inhabited land, a South Pacific speck of volcanic rock so isolated the locals call it "Te Pito O Te Henua," or "The Navel of the World." Giant volcanic rock statues called Moais draw ...

Moves to renew relations between Ecuador and Colombia collapsed on Tuesday as part of a smoldering feud between South American neighbors of the left and right.

President Michelle Bachelet pushed to permanently ban whaling along Chile's sprawling coast at the opening Monday of the weeklong International Whaling Commission meeting.

Bachelet endorsed making Chile's coastal waters _ more than 3,100 miles long and up to 200 miles from shore _ a whale sanctuary. The proposal still must be approved by Congress.

Chile, which shares economic rights to the waters with Colombia, Peru and Ecuador, has not hunted whales since the 1970s. It was not clear if approval will be needed from other countries.

Reuters Wednesday, June 18, 2008; 8:14 PM RIO DE JANEIRO - A Brazilian judge ordered army patrols out of a Rio de Janeiro slum on Wednesday after 11 soldiers were accused of involvement in the gangland killing ...

Paraguay's President Nicanor Duarte offered Congress his resignation Monday, two months before his term is slated to end.