Bolivia says it is selling 30 percent less natural gas to Brazil as heavy rains boost hydroelectric energy production in South America’s largest nation.

Sao Paulo City, scene of the country’s biggest electoral dispute It is time for analysis and reflection on the year that is ending. However, just draw a line...

The Chilean Navy said Wednesday that a British Navy ice patrol ship that lost engine power at the eastern mouth of the Strait of Magellan on the southern tip of South...

Officials in Puerto Rico and Colombia are studying the possibility of building the world’s longest undersea power line to carry electricity from South America to...

The world’s most celebrated ex-hostage, home for the first time since her July rescue and embarking on a South America humanitarian mission, said Sunday that the...

A presidential veto has kept Uruguay from having South America’s most liberal abortion law.

When the economist Jim O’Neill of Goldman Sachs Group, created the term BRIC to describe the four major emerging countries in the world, he was making only a...

Brazilian stocks closed moderately higher Monday on news of a merger that would create South America’s largest private-sector banking group, while...

Brazil’s ruling party lost its chance to retake the mayorship of South America’s biggest city on Sunday, while an ex-guerrilla who once kidnapped a U.S....

Brazil’s ruling party will likely lose its push to retake control of South America’s biggest city on Sunday in mayoral runoff elections that could see the...

Bolivia’s Congress ratified President Evo Morales’ draft constitution on Tuesday and sent it to a nationwide vote on Jan. 25, granting the leftist leader a...

The U.S. is set to suspend a trade deal with Bolivia that is worth 20,000 Bolivian jobs and $150 million a year, but President Evo Morales says South America’s...

A considerably less sympathetic type of cannibalism occurs in Guyana, along the Northeast Coast of South America. Called kanaimà, it’s a form of “assault...

We discussed cannibalism with Neil Whitehead, an anthropologist who studies native violence in Central and South America

It’s time to have a look at the newest in condom dispenser art today. The “Don’t Panic” condom dispenser is a product by Brazilian designer Rafael Morgan....

There are many things I like in the United States. Stanley Kubrick, John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, Brian de Palma, Clint Eatwood, Martin Scorcese are some of my favorite...

Argentina has a new President. And wonder of wonders, the President is a woman. The men are apprehensive whether she might be one of those weaklings who toe the line of...

Strong customer desire at times help in fighting any downward spiraling of demand in the face of rising prices. The demand for Italian pizzas and pasta has not fallen...

Maybe the Mexican police force has been watching too many Hollywood action movies these days. If indeed they have been doing so, then they must have done with great...

Colombian drug lord Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia was extradited to the United States on Friday to face racketeering charges, a year after he was captured in a luxurious...