The Latest Breaking News from South America

Paraguay’s president-elect, Santiago Pena, has committed to maintaining diplomatic ties with Taiwan, going against a trend of Taipei’s diplomatic allies switching their allegiance to China

New research suggests humans lived in South America at the same time as now extinct giant sloths, bolstering evidence that people arrived in the Americas earlier than previously thought

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.

South America is in the spotlight as Central in Lima, Peru, is named the world’s best restaurant 2023 at the World’s 50 Best restaurant awards held last night in Valencia, Spain.

Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will make his first state visit to South America with a trip to Chile in September, El Universal reported.