Brazil’s ruling party presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff remains on track to win next month’s election in the first round despite an ethics scandal involving her party, two opinion polls showed on Friday. In an Ibope survey, Rousseff...

Authorities in Rio de Janeiro are under renewed pressure to bulletproof up to 200 schools in conflict-stricken areas, after an 11-year-old boy was killed by a stray bullet during a maths lesson. According to reports in the local press city authorities...

Brazilian state-controlled energy giant Petrobras announced Monday that it plans to invest $224 billion between this year and 2014, a 20 percent increase over its previous five-year investment program. Petrobras, Brazil’s largest company and one of...

When the wife of an Amazonian electrical technician, Walter Carvalho de Almeida, gave birth to his first daughter in September 2008, it was the realisation of a long-held dream – he could name one of his own children after two lifelong heroes. Paying...

It has taken four years and more than £3m to produce a remarkable production called Amazonas, a multimedia, transcultural German-Brazilian tragic opera, developed in four languages, that will have its world premiere this weekend. Perhaps...

Brazilian police have detained an 83-year-old priest after a congressional hearing produced allegations he molested boys as young as 12, fueling a growing scandal involving Roman Catholic clergy across Latin America. The pedophilia allegations against...

At least one person was killed and 20 others were wounded in fights between fans of soccer clubs Palmeiras and Sao Paulo over the weekend in Brazil, the press reported Monday. At least six direct clashes between rival fans occurred Sunday afternoon and...

rosecutors and police raided a stockbroking company Wednesday in connection with Finance Minister Ali Rodriguez Araque’s decision last month to place four commercial banks under state control. Only hours later, President Hugo Chávez issued a...

The United States risks souring relations with much of Latin America if it recognizes a presidential election in Honduras on Sunday, the foreign policy adviser to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil said in an interview on Wednesday.

President Hugo Chavez on Sunday ordered Venezuela’s military to prepare for a possible armed conflict with Colombia, saying his country’s soldiers should be ready if the United States attempts to provoke a war between the South American...