The Latest Breaking News from South America

When Argentinian geologist Federico Alvarez Hazer immigrated to Baltimore one year ago to live with his wife, he imagined that his days working on fossil dig sites close to home — as he had in South America’s Patagonia region — were over.

AKT Motos, a motorcycle manufacturer from Colombia, is building steam in the South American market. Let's take a closer look at this brand.

It also puts 1.5 degree global warming limit at risk next year

Jamie McMann was due to fly to Cancun, Mexico, where he would meet up his girlfriend, who had been travelling South America for three months, however he wasn't allowed on the flight

Uruguay may be one of the smallest countries in South America, but it’s also where one of the darkest moments in the continent’s history took place. On 27 June 1973, a coup d’etat ushered in a dictatorship that would rule the country with an iron fist for 12 years. During…

A record 110 tonnes of cocaine were seized in the Belgian port of Antwerp in 2022. The city is now the main gateway into Europe for the drug, which largely comes from South America concealed in fruit shipments. Faced with this trafficking epidemic, Belgian authorities have recruited almost 100 extra…

On the far north edge of Colombia there is a desert peninsula the size of Wales, where Arizona-like landscapes meet the sparkling waters of the Caribbean. Home to the indigenous Wayuu people, La Guajira is a place of great “beauty and strangeness”, said Ruaridh Nicoll in the Financial Times. The…

From Bielsa with Uruguay to Simeone at Atlético, managers from the South American nation are everywhere – except Brazil

A dozen rheas escape from farm, five caught, rest remain at large; residents warned of dangerous claws and kicks.