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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Brazilian secret service, along with Argentine, Peruvian, Bolivian, Venezuelan, Colombian, Russian and Iranian intelligence agencies made a mega-operation in the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Bolivia’s richest region of Santa Cruz voted overwhelmingly for greater autonomy from central government aiming to give local authorities more power over...

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...

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....