South America

Music
‘To Make the Archives Sing’: Old Jewish Argentinian songs recorded for the first time
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Leaders
What’s left for the opposition after the likely president-elect fled the country
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Elections
Millions of Venezuelans living abroad will be unable to vote in upcoming presidential election
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Immigration
Closing the Darién Gap with a barbed-wire fence
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Sports
Baseball rises in Argentina thanks to Venezuelan migration
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Human rights
‘They’ve hidden the past from us’: New bill in Honduras seeks to rectify 1980s human rights violations
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Migration
Migrants take to social media to document their risky journey to the US
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Natural disasters
Heavy flooding in Brazil’s south creates havoc for residents
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Three people cross a ravine as they walk through a forest with water bottles and backpacks.
Immigration
‘I’ll go for the American dream’: After struggling to get legal status in Colombia, many Venezuelan migrants are heading to the US
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A fully-covered man riding a motorbike in the street at night
Business, Economics and Jobs
New banking services tackle barriers faced by migrants
A group of runners carrying staffs and smile for a group shot
Books
‘Spirit Run’: A new memoir details one man’s journey to reconnect with nature and his Indigenous heritage
A police officer wearing a face mask asks for identification documents to a driver in one of the neighborhoods where the mayor's office decreed strict quarantine, amidst an outbreak of the coronavirus disease, in Bogota, Colombia, July 14, 2020.
Bogotá tries ‘staggered quarantine’ to slow coronavirus spread
Migrants are seen at temporary shelter in the village of La Penita, Panama, on August 23, 2019.
Migration
‘We’re dead here’: Migrants stranded in Panama rainforest amid coronavirus
Nathaniel B Palmer in port
Into the Thaw: Decoding Thwaites Glacier
Antarctica Dispatch 1: Gearing up and shipping out
Scarlet tanager
Environment
Spring’s uncertain arrival poses problems for migrating birds
Protesters gather to rally against U.S. President Donald Trump's firing of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey, outside the White House in Washington, U.S. May 10, 2017.
Global Politics
Trump firing Comey: ‘It helps every authoritarian in the world’
Peru anchovies
Food
What happens when you eat seafood at every meal for a year?
Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff.
Economics
Brazil just pulled a 360 on impeachment. Here’s what it means.
A worker pumps gas into a vehicle at a gas station, which belongs to Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA, in Caracas, on Feb. 12, 2016.
Economics
Venezuela’s 6,000-percent gas price hike has a global origin
Tourists at a beach in Argentina crowd around a young Franciscan dolphin that was later left dead on the sand.
Environment
Did a group of photo-taking tourists really kill an endangered dolphin in Argentina?
A Brazilian drug gang member nicknamed Pilintra, 26, poses with guns in Salvador.
Global Politics
In Brazil, where the homicide rate is five times that of the US, a new push to relax gun laws.
Demonstrators attend a protest against Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff in São Paulo on March 15, 2015. Protest organizers in dozens of cities across Brazil are planning marches to pressure Rousseff over unpopular budget cuts and a corruption scandal tha
Global Politics
A ‘fragile moment’ is reached in Brazil as millions rage against corruption
A man takes a shower as policemen patrol during an operation in Rio de Janeiro's Mare slums complex on March 30, 2014.
Environment
Drought forces Brazilians to curb their addiction to multiple daily showers
A man walks past graffiti which reads "Yankees, go to hell" in Caracas March 10, 2015. President Nicolas Maduro was seeking special decree powers from Venezuela's parliament on Tuesday in response to new US sanctions, drawing opposition protests of a powe
Global Politics
The US imposed sanctions on seven Venezuelan officials, and President Nicolas Maduro couldn’t be happier
Jose Mujica
Global Politics
Perhaps the world’s most humble leader — humbly steps down
Road of death
Sports
If you’re looking for a good time, try a ride down Bolivia’s ‘road of death’
Brazilian surfer Guido Schäffer
Belief
A man known as the ‘Surfer Angel’ could be Brazil’s next saint
Supporters of Caracas mayor Antonio Ledezma gather to protest his arrest by President Nicolas Maduro. The banner reads: "Freedom to Ledezma. No more political prisoners".
Justice
The arrest of Caracas’ mayor stuns and angers Venezuelans
Revelers from the Beija Flor samba school participate in the annual Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro's Sambadrome on February 17, 2015.
Culture
Why Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival may have danced to the beat of a dictator
William Rivas drives his own Chevy Malibu as cab. Gas prices are so low in Venezuela that it costs him less than $1 to fill up the tank.
Economics
Venezuela’s 4 cents a gallon gas is set for a major hike
Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner  walks on the carpet before a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing February 5, 2015.
Culture
Argentine president in China to negotiate deals on ‘lice and petloleum’
Argentina's President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, sitting in a wheelchair, addresses the nation during a televised speech in Buenos Aires announcing an attempt to disband SIDE, the country's intelligence agency.
Global Politics
Argentina’s president declares war on ‘the power behind the power’ — her country’s spies
Prosecutor Viviana Fein, who is investigating the death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman, speaks to journalists outside her office in Buenos Aires.
Global Politics
The plot thickens in the case of Argentina’s slain prosecutor
Greenpeace message next to Peru's Nazca Lines.
Environment
Greenpeace names activists behind a failed stunt at Peru climate talks
People are seen in front of the Hospital Militar (Military Hospital), where six ex-inmates from Guantanamo Bay are being housed in Montevideo, on December 8, 2014.
Global Politics
Six men leave the ‘black hole’ of Guantanamo for new lives in Uruguay
Riot police block demonstrators during a protest against the 2014 World Cup, in Sao Paulo June 12, 2014.
Justice
How police violence in the US could help spark racial justice in Brazil
Argentina's Economy Minister Martin Lousteau and his girlfriend Anita attend the final match at the Buenos Aires Open tennis tournament between Jose Acasuso and David Nalbandian February 24, 2008.
Economics
Inflation — and hotness — make economists superstars in Argentina 
Gabriel García Márquez working on "One Hundred Years of Solitude."
Arts
Gabriel García Márquez’s archive, including an unpublished novel, is heading to Texas
Team Peak Performance walks with stray dog Arthur during a stage of the 430-mile Adventure Racing World Championship.
Sports
A stray dog adopts a team of Swedish trekkers on an endurance race in the Amazon
President Barack Obama signs two Presidential Memoranda associated with his Executive Actions on immigration aboard Air Force One on November 21, 2014.
Global Politics
Executive actions can be contentious all over the world
Orange is the New Black actress Diane Guerrero.
Global Politics
‘Orange is the New Black’ star Diane Guerrero describes her parents’ deportation
General Ruben Dario Alzate was kidnapped by FARC in a village close to the provincial capital of Quibdó in northwestern Colombia.
Conflict
A Colombian general’s bizarre behavior may have derailed his country’s fragile peace talks
Police officers are seen behind barricade tape guarding an area where a bomb exploded in Santiago September 8, 2014. The words on the yellow tape read, "Do not pass."
Conflict
Each new bomb attack in Chile brings reminders of the Pinochet era of repression
Mattel's Barbie dolls on sale are pictured inside a shop of a life-size "Barbie Dreamhouse" during a media tour in Berlin, May 15, 2013.
Business
Venezuelans are rushing to the store to buy Barbie dolls after the government imposes a price cut
Servicemen from the US military take an oath during a naturalization ceremony at the Al-Faw Palace in Baghdad's Camp Victory on July 4, 2011.
Justice
Some American veterans get kicked out of the country they served
Each Friday, miners at the Cerro Rico mine worship at shrines of "El Tio," the spirit who they also call th "Devil God of the Mountain."
Global Politics
Go inside ‘the mountain that eats men’ in Bolivia
A woman walks past a currency exchange store with an Argentine national flag on display in Buenos Aires' financial district on August 14, 2014
Finance
How a New York court got to dictate terms to a entire country
Fish and seafood are displayed for sale at a grocery store in Moscow. Embargoes mean that Russia's usual sources of fish have been replaced by food from other areas, and Russians aren't happy with the new options.
Food
Putin’s quarrel with Ukraine squeezes Russia’s sushi habit
By using a undercover female police officers, the city hopes to deter sex offenders on public transport
Justice
Colombia’s undercover, anti-groping squad is patrolling public buses in Bogota
Cuy (guinea pig) with yucca cream at Maido, a restaurant in Lima, Peru
Food
Immigration fuels a hot Asian fusion food scene in Lima
Camila Ferrara of the Wildlife Conservation Society records the sounds from South American river turtles on the beach before they even hatch from their eggs.
Science
It turns out turtles have something to say
Marina Silva on the stump with presidential candidate, Eduardo Campos, before his death last week.
Global Politics
Brazil’s presidential campaign has all the drama of the country’s famed telenovelas
Music
Why musician Rubén Blades made the switch from salsa to tango
Chiquita bananas are displayed for sale in a London store. Shares in Irish banana company Fyffes slumped on Monday after Cutrale Group and Brazilian investment firm Safra Group offered to buy Chiquita Brands, threatening Fyffes' earlier deal with Chiquita
Business
A Brazilian company bids to become Chiquita’s orange knight
Chiquita bananas are displayed for sale in a London store. Shares in Irish banana company Fyffes slumped on Monday after Cutrale Group and Brazilian investment firm Safra Group offered to buy Chiquita Brands, threatening Fyffes' earlier deal with Chiquita
Business
A Brazilian company bids to become Chiquita’s orange knight
Estela de Carlotto, president of human rights organization Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo (Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo)
Justice
A grandmother in Argentina finds her grandson after nearly 40 years
Estela de Carlotto, president of human rights organization Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo (Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo)
Justice
A grandmother in Argentina finds her grandson after nearly 40 years
A man looks at a poster placed on an advertising board that reads "Yesterday, Braden or Peron - Today: Griesa or Cristina", in Buenos Aires on July 29, 2014. Argentine debt negotiators held talks in New York on Tuesday with the U.S. mediator in the South
Economics
The new Argentine debt crisis resurrects painful memories and fears of economic disaster
Environment
First the World Cup, now an aquarium? Some Brazilians say a new US-backed project isn’t needed
Sports
How Argentinians made ‘Bad Moon Rising’ their soccer anthem