The goalkeeper of Brazil’s most popular football team has surrendered to the police in connection with the disappearance of his former lover. Bruno Fernandes, who plays for Rio de Janeiro’s Flamengo, is being investigated after Eliza...

A powerful storm has battered southern Brazil over the past 24 hours, forcing at least 8,400 people to abandon their homes and causing extensive material damages, officials said. In Parana, the state most affected by the downpours, close to 6,000...

Brazilian authorities are investigating three priests accused of sexually abusing altar boys after a video allegedly showing one case of abuse was broadcast on television, police and church officials said Tuesday. The case came to light after the SBT...

A Catholic priest and his girlfriend are accused of soliciting sex from young girls, including one who later bore his child, investigators said Wednesday. The Rev. Ricardo Munoz Quinteros, 55, found the youths with the help of his girlfriend, Pamela...

For Floripa Lizama and her family, the past is their slapdash wood-plank home located next to an unsightly concrete canal. But they will soon be part of a new Chile, living in a home in a government-funded development under construction next to their...

At the national stadium in the Guinean capital, Conakry, it’s oddly quiet — the only sounds that can be heard are the muffled beats of a drum band practicing nearby. The other strange thing in a dusty and garbage-strewn city is how clean the...

A small grove of huarango, the storied Peruvian tree that can live over a millennium, rests like a mirage amid the sand dunes on this city’s edge. The tree has provided the inhabitants of this desert with food and timber since before the Nazca...

In his first year at San Marcos University, Hermenegildo Espejo barely spoke, and certainly not in class. His Spanish was rudimentary, his accent an embarrassment. Classmates in Lima, a two-day trip from his Amazon home town, laughed at his grammatical...

Brazil’s Environment minister, Carlos Minc, is celebrating the pace of Brazilian deforestation. The last numbers released by the National Institute of Space Studies (Inpe) this Wednesday, November 4, shows that Brazil in September has downed 400...

All the bureaucracy and corruption the world knows about that plagues Brazilian life and the economy in particular is preventing Brazil from becoming the main port of entry for products bound to the Mercosur. Other alternatives instead are being...