South America

Explained: The $3.6 billion Chinese-funded Chancay port project in Peru, US concerns around it

November 20, 2024 11:50 am

What exactly is the Chancay port project and what does China stand to gain from it? We explain.

Scientists find first evidence that butterflies crossed an ocean

June 28, 2024 10:21 am

The painted lady, or the species Vanessa cardui, is one of the world’s most widespread butterflies, but it isn’t found in South America.

Title 42 is ending at the U.S.-Mexico border. What is it and what happens now?

May 09, 2023 10:43 am

The COVID restrictions, known as Title 42, were first implemented under Republican then-President Donald Trump in March 2020. It allowed border agents to rapidly expel many migrants to Mexico.

Women's soccer hits club record attendance in South America

September 25, 2022 10:31 am

The previous record attendance for club soccer in the region was set in June in Colombia, when America de Cali beat rival Deportivo Cali 3-1 in front of 37,100 fans.

Explained: Who is Gustavo Petro, the former guerrilla fighter who will be Colombia's first leftist President?

June 21, 2022 4:18 pm

Petro's victory underlines an ongoing shift of South American politics to the left, which has seen leftist leaders secure victories in Peru last July, and in Chile and Honduras this year.

Colombia will soon have its first black female vice president. Will it be Marelen Castillo?

June 18, 2022 9:39 am

Marelen Castillo, the former top director of a private Catholic university in Bogotá, is running with anti-establishment politician and businessman Rodolfo Hernández, who is unexpectedly in Colombia’s runoff election for president.

Brazil police: Items owned by missing men found in Amazon

June 13, 2022 12:37 pm

On Saturday, Brazil police had reported finding traces of blood in the boat of a fisherman who is under arrest as the only suspect and organic matter of apparent human origin inside the river.

In Colombia, a leftist and a right-wing populist head for June runoff

May 30, 2022 2:24 pm

According to a Colombian political scientist, the Petro-Hernández faceoff pits “change against change.”

Suriname President Desi Bouterse convicted of murder for 1982 executions

November 30, 2019 1:35 pm

Opposition parties called for Bouterse, currently in China on an official visit, to step down.

Explained: Why Bolivia is the latest South American nation to fall into chaos

November 12, 2019 7:06 am

Bolivian President Evo Morales, whom the elections had brought to power for a fourth term, has said he has been the target of a coup, and has alleged the role of a “civic-political-police” conspiracy to remove him from power.

Survivors pick up the pieces after Hurricane Julia rips through Venezuela

October 26, 2022 5:23 pm