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Since there was the conquest of Latin America by the Portuguese and Spanish, the story was always the same: a strong division between countries, even after their independence.
The British Empire during a long time, ever interfered in the...
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When I was a kid, I always heard that Brazil was the country’s future. Of course at that time the Brazilian society was controlled by a powerful and arrogant...
made popular Oct 8 2010
Blades slicing through the morning heat, the helicopter rose from the tarmac and swept into a cobalt sky, high above Rio’s Guanabara Bay.
It powered north-east...
made popular Sep 16 2010
Mexican President Calderon condemns the slaughter of 72 migrants at a ranch in Mexico, as he vowed to continue the fight in Mexico’s drug war. Deborah Lutterbeck...
made popular Aug 30 2010
Diplomats in Mexico have begun the grim task of identifying 72 migrants killed in the worst massacre in the country’s escalating drug war.
Investigators say about...
made popular Aug 30 2010
South America gave up its dictator habit two decades ago. It’s fallen off the wagon at times, evidenced by the authoritarian binge of then-Peruvian President...
made popular Aug 12 2010
Lung Cancer:
The need to diagnose lung cancer at an early and potentially curable stage is obvious. In addition, most patients who develop lung cancer have been smokers...
made popular May 29 2010
Mexican authorities say they have charged six people, including police officers, with robbing and raping Central American migrants making their way to the United...
made popular Apr 21 2010
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says a U.S. military plane entered Venezuelan airspace and was met by his military’s F-16s, which escorted it out.
made popular Jan 11 2010
Do you live in Europe? Are finances a bit tight? Have you cut back on Starbucks, eating out, exspensive manicures, and cancelled your satellite TV? Have you, like many...
made popular Feb 27 2009
Some time ago I wrote about Barack Obama, but at the time he was only candidate. However, as Obama will become president de facto, I believe it is necessary to deepen...
made popular Jan 20 2009
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...
made popular Dec 20 2008
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...
made popular Nov 14 2008
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...
made popular Sep 23 2008
We discussed cannibalism with Neil Whitehead, an anthropologist who studies native violence in Central and South America
made popular Sep 23 2008
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....
made popular Sep 23 2008
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...
made popular Sep 13 2008
President Evo Morales seemed to have secured an easy victory in a recall referendum on Sunday, giving him a fresh mandate to advance efforts to redistribute petroleum...
made popular Aug 12 2008
The Brazilian secret service, along with Argentine, Peruvian, Bolivian, Venezuelan, Colombian, Russian and Iranian intelligence agencies made a mega-operation in the...
made popular Jul 25 2008
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Doctors in a coastal town in northwestern Peru have rescued the innards of a 38-year-old man by removing 17 metal objects — among them nails, a watch clasp and a...
made popular Jul 13 2008
While Europe and many countries are locking up refugees, South America is reorganising itself to make borders more a thing of the past.
At the 35th Summit of the Heads...
made popular Jul 1 2008
If it were possible to say that in South America there is some kind of regional political leadership, that would be divided between Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio...
made popular Jun 27 2008
Whilst trying to gross ourselves out a while ago, our travel editors got their heads together and came up with 10 really weird foods they’d eaten or seen eaten on...
made popular Jun 20 2008
Bolivia’s richest region of Santa Cruz voted overwhelmingly for greater autonomy from central government aiming to give local authorities more power over...
made popular May 5 2008
High-speed rail is finally coming to America. However it’s Argentina and not the United States that will be the first Amercian country to build a high-speed rail...
made popular Mar 4 2008
Terrorism, one of the harshest challenges that the 21st century has yet faced, has its roots attached to the money trail from where the outlaws draw their oxygen....
made popular May 21 2007
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