A strong 7.1-magnitude earthquake rocked Ecuador and parts of Peru Thursday, but its epicenter was deep underground in a remote Amazonian region and only one injury and light damage was reported. The quake, which experts from the US Geological Survey...

South America gave up its dictator habit two decades ago. It’s fallen off the wagon at times, evidenced by the authoritarian binge of then-Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori in the 1990s. But compared to past generations, and despite...

Tucked into forested hills in southwest Caracas, a red-brick housing complex for the poor is a testing ground for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s latest step to build socialism in the Latin American oil producer. The phalanx of simple...

Edwin Valero, the suspended WBC lightweight champion, was detained on suspicion of killing his wife yesterday, police said. The Venezuelan federal police chief, Wilmer Flores, said Valero was arrested after police found the body of his wife in a hotel...

An energy crisis has battered Venezuela’s economy and President Hugo Chávez’s popularity, prompting severe rationing to avert nationwide blackouts and paralysis. One of the worst droughts in decades has crippled the hydroelectric plants...

President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez caused a stir today when he compared the Copenhagen Climate Summit to an “imperial dictatorship” and blamed capitalism for “everything that’s wrong with the planet.”

A Brazilian university has expelled a woman who was heckled by hundreds of fellow students for wearing a short, pink dress to class – publicly accusing her Sunday of immorality. The private Bandeirante University in Sao Bernardo do Campo, outside Sao...

More than a dozen of 34 radio stations ordered shut by the Venezuelan government went off the air on Saturday, part of President Hugo Chavez’s drive to extend his socialist revolution to the media. The association of radio broadcasters said 13...

China is reportedly preparing to sign a new petroleum deal with Venezuela, this time pledging to invest $2 billion in Venezuela’s oil industry.