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There was a love fest this Friday between presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil and Venezuelan Hugo Chavez during a visit the Brazilian leader paid to Venezuela. Lula stressed the leadership of Chavez and praised him for building a richer more...
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An Indian tribe in Brazil has found at least nine survivors after a plane came down deep in the Amazon jungle, the Brazilian air force says.
Two people - a crew member and a passenger - are as yet unaccounted for.
Brazilian police on Wednesday announced the capture of 648 kg of marijuana in the southern state of Parana.
Just two weeks ago, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said between delirious sobs in Copenhagen that the International Olympic Committee’s decision to award the 2016 Olympic Games to Rio de Janeiro was a vindication of Brazil’s...
A Chilean judge on Tuesday ordered the arrests of 129 former security officers on charges tied to the disappearance of leftists and the slaying of the communist party leadership during the Pinochet dictatorship.
It was the largest number of arrests...
Walls are going up around the hillside slums of Rio de Janeiro, further dividing a city already separated between rich and poor.
Beneath the gaze of the statue of Christ the Redeemer, work is nearing completion on one of 19 walls to be built around the...
IF ANALOGIES with the Great Depression are scary for Americans, they are hardly less so for Latin Americans. Within a few years of the 1929 stockmarket crash, 16 governments in the region fell to military coups or takeovers by strongmen. In recent years...
Brazil’s drought in 2005, the worst-ever hitting the Amazon, was caused by global warming instead of the El Nino weather phenomenon as previously thought, the country’s National Space Research Institute (INPE) announced Sunday.
“The...
Nine people were missing after a boat carrying 22 people sunk in Pantanal, the world’s largest area of wetlands in centre west of Brazil, officials said Sunday.
According to the local fire department, 12 tourists and 10 crewmembers were onboard...
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