Scientists warn that we have reached a tipping point in which the Amazon rainforest is in critical danger if swift action is not taken, according to an editorial published Friday in the journal Science Advances.
Read moreSearchers combing Antarctic seas have recovered parts of a military transport plane and human remains belonging to some of the 38 people aboard who vanished en route to the frozen continent, Chilean officials said Thursday.
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Chile’s air force lost radio contact with a transport plane carrying 38 people on a flight Monday evening to the country’s base in Antarctica, and authorities indicated several hours later that they were not optimistic about the aircraft’s fate.
Read moreArgentina’s new president Alberto Fernández takes office Tuesday, having pledged to put Argentina “back on its feet: but he faces a tough task due to recession, high inflation and rising unemployment and poverty.
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As popular protests engulf several South American countries, Colombia’s turn arrives Thursday. The country is expected to be paralyzed by the broadest expression of political discontent in its modern history.
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Police and soldiers on Tuesday escorted gasoline tankers from a major Bolivian fuel plant that had been blockaded for five days by supporters of former President Evo Morales, and at least three people were reported killed while the operation was underway.
Read moreThe families of those killed in the Bolivian military’s 2003 clash with protesters urged the 11th Circuit on Tuesday to resurrect a $10 million jury verdict against the country’s ex-president and his former defense minister.
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Chileans are accustomed to seeing violent clashes between police and demonstrators but a new trend is leaving them shaken: the blinding of protesters by shotgun pellets fired by state security agents.
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Thousands of Chileans took to the streets again Monday to demand better social services, some clashing with police, demanding an end to economic inequality even as the government announced that weeks of demonstrations are hurting the country’s economic growth.
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Thousands of young Chileans marched Thursday to demand improved social services as government and opposition leaders debated the response to nearly two weeks of protests that have paralyzed the capital and forced the cancellation of two major international summits.
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Chilean President Sebastián Piñera canceled two major international summits and said he would focus on restoring security in the coming days and try to satisfy popular demands for better social services and a lower cost of living.
Read moreEvery day they come. Drug mules from French Guiana in South America, carrying cocaine in their luggage or their stomachs, playing a cat-and-mouse game with customs officials at Paris’ Orly airport.
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Fresh protests and attacks on businesses erupted in Chile Monday despite President Sebastián Piñera’s replacement of eight Cabinet ministers with more centrist figures and his attempts to assure the country he has heard calls for greater equality and improved social services.
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With 20-some countries and 600 million people, the circumstances across Latin America are wildly variable. But the size and persistence of recent demonstrations indicate that the entire continent of South America is passing through one of those times when the stuff of history books is being made.
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A 4-cent hike in subway prices this month drew little attention inside or outside Chile, at first. But people quietly fumed. A week later, high-school students launched four days of turnstile-jumping protests. Then came havoc.
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On the heels of a landmark call by Amazon region bishops for married men to become priests, Pope Francis on Sunday exhorted Catholics to be open to fresh ways of evangelization, saying the church must “open new roads for the proclamation of the Gospel.”
Read moreHundreds of thousands of protesters marched peacefully in Chile’s capital Friday, intensifying pressure on a government struggling to contain deadly unrest over economic hardship.
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With political unrest in Chile, Peru, Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia, virtually the entire continent of South America is in the throes of drama unseen for a generation.
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Chile is one of the richest countries in the region. Haiti is the poorest. Ecuador has a centrist government. Bolivia’s is socialist. Yet from Port-au-Prince to Santiago, furious demonstrators marched this week to demand fundamental change, a wave of often-violent protests that has set tires, government offices, trains and metro stations ablaze across South America and the Caribbean.
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Bolivian President Evo Morales early Thursday edged toward the threshold he needs for an outright victory in his re-election bid after accusing his opponents of trying to stage a coup against him amid protests over the disputed and slow-moving vote count.
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