South America

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Leftist Colombian presidential candidate Gustavo Petro, a former guerrilla vowing to tackle grating inequality, held a big...

QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuadorean President Guillermo Lasso will attend the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles next month, he...

(Reuters) - Eight people have been arrested on charges that they were involved in forcibly recruiting Ecuadoreans for armed groups,...

(Reuters) - China wants to expand the group of emerging economies known as BRICS, in the first shake up of...

By Esteban Medel SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Exequiel Hinojosa's father was saving up to buy a house in the 1960s and...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Brazil's democracy can support "free and fair elections" in October despite Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's statements against...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's top court on Wednesday turned down appeals filed by communities and environmentalists against the controversial Dominga...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's congress voted to approve an increase in the minimum wage on Wednesday as the Andean country...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico is "ready and willing" to host talks between the Venezuelan government and its opposition, Mexican...

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei said on Tuesday he would not attend next month's Summit of the...

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian center-right presidential candidate Federico Gutierrez on Tuesday said a microphone had been found illegally installed in...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Commissions in charge of fine-tuning a draft of Chile's new constitution and mapping out the transition from...

CARACAS (Reuters) - The Venezuelan United Platform, a grouping of opposition parties in the South American country, on Monday said...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A constitutional assembly in the world's top-copper producing nation on Saturday rejected a major overhaul to mining...

By Jake Spring SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The Royal Society scientific academy has elected climate scientist Carlos Nobre, a leading...

By Marcelo Rochabrun LAS BAMBAS, Peru (Reuters) - The community of Fuerabamba in the Andean region of Peru was resettled...

BOGOTA (Reuters) - The murder of a Paraguayan prosecutor known for fighting organized crime was likely the victim of "transnational"...

LA PAZ (Reuters) -Bolivian President Luis Arce has announced that he will not participate in next month's Summit of the...

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Leftist presidential candidate Gustavo Petro, a former guerrilla fighter promising to "democratize" Colombia's economy, is polling nearly...

By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) - Dozens of inmates were killed during a riot early on Monday as rival gangs...