The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Friday declared Brazil's Lençóis Maranhenses National Park a World Natural Heritage Site, making it the South American country's eighth such place...

Leftwing governments in South America seem to have turned their backs on Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro after he forecasted last week that his country would be heading for a bloodbath if he failed to win Sunday's presidential...

Brazilian health authorities Thursday reported the first two Oropouche fever deaths in the country and the world. The victims were two women from Bahia, aged under 30, with no comorbidities, it was also explained. The malady is...

UK’s Minister for International Development Anneliese Dodds is in Rio de Janeiro representing the UK at the G20 Development Ministers’ Meeting – on the first visit by a member of the new government to South America. 

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva insisted during a G20 event in Rio de Janeiro that fighting hunger was a political choice, Agencia Brasil reported. The South American leader also pledged to steer his country out ...

Argentina's Economy Minister Luis Toto Caputo met Thursday in Rio de Janeiro with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, who said the encounter had been "constructive."

Researchers at the Rio de Janeiro-based Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) found traces of cocaine in 13 sharks of the species Rhizoprionodon lalandii, popularly known as tubarão-bico-fino-brasileiro, cação rola rola or caç�...

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva expressed alarm at Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's recent remarks suggesting potential violence if he loses the upcoming election. Speaking in an interview with internationa...

A subsidiary of Brazilian aircraft manufacturers Embraer launched this weekend in Gavião Peixoto, in the State of São Paulo, the full-scale prototype of the new flying taxi, which was introduced during the 45th edition of the...

Brazilian scientists from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) have detected a new species of buffalo shrimp which they named Alpheus Coralvivo after the Living Coral Project, it was reported.