TERESOPOLIS, Brazil — As night fell, barefoot volunteers dragged a generator and stadium lights into a town cemetery, where nearly 200 freshly dug graves lay open like wounds in the red clay soil, waiting for some of the hundreds killed by...

Former US president Jimmy Carter on Monday told Brazilian newspaper Folha de S. Paulo he is happy Brazil recognized Palestinian statehood, adding, “We cannot count on the United States alone to bring peace, since it agrees with almost everything...

Spectators of a car race in Brazil on Sunday were taken off guard when the bleacher they were sitting in collapsed. Some 111 people were injured, 22 critically, in the bleacher collapse, according to emergency officials. The cause remains under...

The tone of Brazil’s presidential race has lurched lower and is likely to stay there as scandal accusations and increasingly bitter exchanges between the two main candidates drown out policy debate. Trailing badly in the polls, opposition...

An Amazonas TV host accused of ordering executions to boost his programme’s ratings died in Sao Paulo yesterday, taking to the grave the truth about his alleged involvement in a series of murders that were broadcast on his daily crime...

Indigenous leaders in Brazil are warning of imminent violence after a successful tender for the rights to construct a giant hydro-electric plant in the Brazilian Amazon which opponents claim will wreak havoc on the rainforest and its inhabitants. The...

Boriam Valera has seen his future. It shimmers — and sells for more than $1,100 an ounce. The tousled 30-year-old works a homemade gold-mining dredge along the banks of the Tambopata River, a tributary of the Amazon, keeping watch over a sluice...

Brazil received a huge boost in its international image with its selection as the host of the 2016 Olympics, but it was really just the cherry on top of the overall recognition of the country’s ascension to the ranks of one of the world’s...

Colombia’s fight against drug trafficking is failing and needs new proposals and UN guidance, declared former Colombian Foreign Minister Rodrigo Pardo Tuesday. The introduction of new anti-drug initiatives as well as greater multilateralism were...

Venezuela has announced the arrest of a number of people whom it accuses of being agents spying for Colombia. Deputy Foreign Minister Francisco Arias Cardenas said they were members of Colombia’s DAS state security agency. He said they were...