A recent increase in illicit air shipments of cocaine to Bolivia has caused the neighboring nation of Peru to reconsider their previous policy of shooting down small aircraft suspected of transporting the coca-based drug.
The Calbuco volcano erupted on Wednesday for the first time in 40 years. With the eruption, ash and smoke were thrown into the air, but near the eruption was also an unidentified flying object.
After the discovery of 5,000 new dinosaur footprints, the landlocked Latin American nation of Bolivia can now boast the largest number of dinosaur prints in the world.
On Saturday the government of Spain activated an environmental emergency alert regarding oil slicks that threaten to come ashore beaches on the southwestern Canary Islands.
An avalanche on Mount Everest killed Google executive Daniel Fredinburg along with at least 16 other people. The avalanche was triggered by the massive earthquake in Nepal, ABC News reports.
Despite the fact that Russia’s commercial interests in Latin America have grown over the past decade, the fruits of a free flowing trade between Russia and the region has been overshadowed by the greater need for political allies.
During a recent trade mission trip to Cuba the Roswell Park Cancer Institute of Buffalo, New York signed an agreement which will allow them to import a Cuban lung cancer vaccine called CimaVax.
A quartet of former Guantanamo Bay prisoners protested for a second day on Saturday. The four ex-detainees were demanding further assistance from the Uruguayan as well as the U.S. governments regarding their adaptation to living life in their new home.
Several flights to the capitals of Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay have been cancelled as ash from the Chilean volcano Calbuco, which erupted earlier this week, reached as far as southern Brazil on Saturday.
According to Mexico's economy minister Ildefonso Guajardo, the Ohio-based Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is set to invest $550 million to build a new plant in Mexico.
A Venezuelan woman who had the nerve to throw a mango with a message at President Nicolas Maduro has just had her wish for a room granted by the socialist leader.
Rep. Paul Ryan is calling on fellow Republicans in Congress to pass trade legislation backed by the Obama Administration that would help American companies conduct business overseas.
Antonio Ledezma, the incarcerated mayor of Venezuela's capital Caracas, was transferred from prison to a hospital where he will undergo emergency surgery for a groin hernia
A photo of a 4-year-old girl posing on a beach in Zushi, Japan last year is getting lots of buzz as many people believe that a Samurai ghost photobombed the pic.
According to a new book called “Final De Partida” (End Game) Juan Carlos,the ex-king of Spain, was leading a double life and having an affair with a German aristocrat for the last ten years of his reign.
A 61-year-old farmer named Victoriano Huayna has become the the first fatality of a month long protest against a Mexican-owned copper mining project in Peru.
Chocolatier and founder of MarieBelle New York (SoHo) Mariben Lieberman has a refined palate, a worldly perspective, and an extraordinary expertise in cacao as evidenced by her signature artisanal ganache, equisitely roasted coffee, and world-class Aztec Hot Chocolate.
A striptease may not be exactly what you expect as of a funeral, but at least in rural China, erotic dancers are frequently hired to ensure high turnouts for these otherwise somber events - a practice on which the government in Beijing is now cracking down.
