Latest South America News
RSS-
Police in Brazil arrest 7 men 2 women on suspicion of sexually abusing indigenous girls
SAO PAULO - Brazil's Federal Police say nine people have been arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing Indians girls in the northern state of Amazonas. The force says two women and seven men in the city of Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira are in custody for the alleged sexual exploitation and abuse of Indian girls between the ages of 11 and 15. Federal police inspector Fabio Pessoa says ...
-
Brazil drug traffickers fight back order curfew in Rio slums
- Drug traffickers in Rio de Janeiro ordered shops closed in one of its biggest slums early Thursday, defying efforts to restore order to the city's vast shantytowns and renewing safety concerns in Brazil as it prepares to host the World Cup and Olympics. Shops were shuttered and more than 5,400 children were turned away from school Thursday morning after traffickers, shouting from ...
-
Syrias Civil War Fuels Violence in Iraq
Ominous ties are emerging between skyrocketing sectarian violence in Iraq and Syria's civil war. Analysts say al-Qaida-linked militants are flowing back and forth from both countries and are seeking to use religious differences to bring down the government, not only in Damascus, but also in Baghdad. Iraqis are witnessing the worst violence to rock their country in five years. Bombings ...
More South America News
RSS-
Moore Oklahoma Holds First Funeral of Tornado Victim
Moore, Oklahoma held the first funeral for a victim of Monday's monster tornado -- a nine year-old girl killed when the storm tore apart her elementary ...
-
Africa Tempts High-Tech Companies
Multinational high-tech companies looking for new frontiers and fresh ideas are lining up for a slice of Africa’s relatively untapped consumer market. Many experts are saying the continent is poised to be the next hotbed of technological innovation. Others are even more ...
-
African Progress Panel Urges Leaders to Exploit Resources
ADDIS ABABA -- As the African Union celebrates the 50th anniversary of its founding, a group of respected leaders and activists led by former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is urging African leaders to maximize the continent’s natural resource potential. The African Progress Panel ...
-
South Sudans President Says Never to ICC
South Sudan President Salva Kiir (L) meets his Kenyan counterpart Uhuru Kenyatta, who is on his first visit to the region as head of state, in Juba, South Sudan, May 23, ...
-
Volunteers Help Revive LAs Concrete River
LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles River is a concrete drainage channel through much of its 80-kilometer length. It channels waste-water from storm drains and has become a receptacle for much of the city's trash. But, the river is slowly being restored to its natural state with the help of volunteers, who take part in an annual clean-up. Thousands of volunteers turned out on a recent weekend ...
-
Video PM arrives in Colombia to talk trade with Pacific Alliance
The prime minister is in Colombia to observe the Pacific Alliance discussions -- grouping Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile. International Trade Minister Ed Fast called the countries Canada's most trusted partners in the ...
-
Colombia’s peace process will fail unless FARC apologizes Senator
A senator of Colombia’s Liberal Party said Thursday that if the country’s largest guerrilla group, the FARC, fails to apologize to the victims of the war, the peace process is doomed to ...
-
The Egg Without Salt Maduro Struggles to Govern Venezuela
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro greets supporters during a May Day rally in Caracas May 1, 2013. (Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters) Last month, Venezuela elected a president on the recommendation of Hugo Chavez. But as the problems the country faces loom larger, President Nicolas Maduro is finding his predecessor's one-man show a difficult act to follow. It was inevitable that ...
-
Safe Rooms Saved Lives in Tornado Disaster
WASHINGTON -- The scattered ruins of Moore, Oklahoma, a town devastated for the fourth time in 14 years by a major tornado, are a grim reminder that current building codes can’t do much to prevent property destruction and loss of life, especially when a powerful twister cuts through town. But the death toll can be dramatically reduced when people take shelter in underground storm bunkers ...
-
Kenyan Cooperation with ICC Questioned
An April 2011 Combination picture shows Kenya's Uhuru Kenyatta, who was finance minister, and William Ruto, former Higher Education Minister at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The ...
-
Obama Renews Pledge to Close Guantanamo Prison
In a speech addressing U.S. national security and counter-terrorism strategy, U.S. President Barack Obama announced additional steps to reaffirm his pledge to close the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He said Guantanamo "has become a symbol around the world for an America that flouts the rule of law." In a speech Thursday at the National Defense University in ...
-
Telescopes Spot Colliding Galaxies
Several telescopes have teamed up to discover a rare and massive merging of two galaxies that took place when the universe was just 3 billion years old (its current age is about 14 billion years). (Photo: ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech/UC ...
-
Paraguayan Former President Fernando Lugo Left for Ecuador
Asuncion, May 23 (Prensa Latina) Paraguayan Former President Fernando Lugo, leader of the coalition of parties and social organizations Guasu Front, traveled to Ecuador today. Lugo, who was elected senator in the last general elections, will participate as a guest in the inaguration of re-elected head of state Rafael Correa,the Front Guasu confirmed. ...
-
Peru - Journalist threatened after reporting on cancelled municipal project in Peru
in the province of Lampa, was verbally threatened by Mara Quispe Quisocala, the local mayor's secretary, apparently because the journalist published information about the Public Treasury and some municipal projects. The incident took place in the Puno region of southern Peru.Ccapa Zapana told IPYS that the threat occurred when he was scheduling an interview with Lampa's deputy mayor, ...
-
Judge orders transfer of 2600 Bogota prisoners to tackle overcrowding
According to the judge’s ruling, the prisoner transfer must be complete within four months. ';[INPEC] must abstain from receiving new detainees until the overcrowding is overcome.'; However, Ruth Stella Correa, Colombia’s Minister of Justice, said the task of transferring the prisoners was ';titanic'; ans asked for more time for the plan’s implementation. ...
-
Soldiers in southwest Colombia ‘week without food’
Forty-five soldiers stationed in the southwestern Colombian department of Nario told national radio Thursday they have spent the past week without food and receive no response to calls for ...
-
Brazil delays mining bill says to reach Congress in June
Thu May 23, 2013 4:08pm EDT * Mining sector says languishing as new rules awaited * Quarter of expected Brazil mining investment on hold * Congress could shelve vote on bill By Leonardo Goy BRASILIA, May 23 (Reuters) - Brazil's government plans to submit its mining reform bill to Congress in June rather than this month, energy minister Edison Lobao said on Thursday, prolonging a wait that is ...
-
Ecuador Pegasus Satellite Crashes in Space
Share/Bookmark Ecuador’s first and only satellite, Pegasus, has collided with a Russian space rocket, casting doubts over whether the portal is still in ...
-
Police helicopter crashes during chase in Venezuela 5 dead
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan authorities say a police helicopter has crashed while pursuing suspects in a kidnapping, and all five people aboard have been killed. Police spokesman Luis Karabin told state television that the helicopter went down Thursday in a forested area east of Caracas. The cause of the crash was not immediately clear, but Karabin cited atmospheric conditions. He said ...
-
Maduros confused signals bode ill for Venezuelas recovery
Hugo Chavez , who died of cancer in March. This week the National Assembly passed funding that could make toilet paper available to Venezuelans. Maduro, who succeeded Chavez after a snap election in April, has pledged to solve Venezuela's endemic problems of shortages and slow growth and has also attempted to distance himself occasionally from Chavez. Conflicting statements on ...
-
Canada Peru in military trade deal
The Canadian government and the government of Peru have agreed to cooperate on military equipment and services procurement. The office of the Prime Minister of Canada said Thursday the Memorandum of Understanding was signed Wednesday by the Canadian Commercial Corp. and the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Peru. "Under this agreement, the CCC will work with the Ministry of Defense ...
-
Report At Least 1 London Terror Suspect is of Nigerian Descent
A picture of victim Drummer Lee Rigby, of the British Army's 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers is displayed with flowers left by mourners outside an army barracks near the scene of his killing in Woolwich, southeast London May 23, ...
Rio de Janeiro Digest
-
Rio's uphill battle to host the Games
Rio de Janeiro has many aspects, it is the party capital of Brazil, the internationally recognized face of the country, the most visited city in Brazil, the crime capital of South America, a city with some of the highest drug use statistics and, more recently, the host city of the 2016 Summer Olympics. Winning that particular war has not been easy.
Rio de Janeiro, this bustling city of 6 million people (14 million if one includes the greater metro area) is the second largest city in Brazil and is famous for its statue Christ the Redeemer, which sits atop Corcovado Mountain and has looked down upon the city for almost 100 years. It is also famous for the internationally known Carnivale, the city’s samba schools, the fabulous beaches that grace our shoreline and Sugarloaf Mountain with its ancient cable car. Read more
News from around our Network
