A UN report has detailed the extrajudicial executions of thousands of young men by special forces. The report says that the death squads are carrying out President Maduro's strategy for neutralizing political opponents.

Southern Chile's Copahue Volcano belched plumes of ash skyward Saturday, prompting authorities there and in neighboring Argentina to issue a low-level alert.

Like a Surgeon ... General?

On the day after Christmas, McAfee posted a long blog post describing how he gave Belizean authorities the slip and snuck out of the country to avoid questioning (and in his estimation, wrongful prosecution) following the murder of his neighbor, Greg Faull.

Prime minister says he will 'do everything to protect interests of islanders' following demand by Argentina's president

A cat trained by prisoners to deliver cell phones and tools to dig tunnels was caught at a jail in northeastern Brazil after sneaking in with forbidden items strapped to its body.

Ambassador to Colombia asked to step down after bodyguard held party with prostitutes at mission.

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A plane carrying six people, one of them believed to be Vittorio Missoni, a director of Italy's Missoni fashion house, is missing off the coast of Venezuela.

In the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, free English classes will be offered to prostitutes to deal with the influx of 2014 World Cup tourists.

How a terrible but little-known conflict continues to shape and blight a nation

Kichwa villagers from Sani Isla vow to resist oil prospecting by state-backed company Petroamazonas at all costs.

Racers in the 34th annual Dakar Rally are nearing the finish line in Santiago, Chile

A security guard is hospitalized in the city of San Fernando in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago after accidentally discharging his weapon and shooting off his penis.

Scientists in Chile have spent the past year designing a drug that will give anyone who drinks alcohol an immediate (and very nasty) hangover.

A fire in a nightclub killed at least 232 people in southern Brazil on Sunday when a band's pyrotechnics show set the building ablaze and fleeing partygoers stampeded toward blocked and overcrowded exits in the ensuing panic, officials said.

Pair of band members whose pyrotechnics are believed to have sparked the blaze that killed 231 people also questioned.

Many of the dead in the fire were young science and engineering students--just the kind of experts the country needs to advance into the ranks of the First World. Has the time come for Brazil to make sure its legal system works to make prevent big and small abuses that may hamper its over-all economic future?

One of the owners of the Brazilian nightclub that burned down this week, killing 235, tried to take his own life while in custody, police said Wednesday.

A Carnival cruise ship carrying more than 4,000 passengers and crew is stranded in the Gulf of Mexico after an engine room fire broke out this morning, representatives for the cruise line said.

A new study of Brazil's rain forest says deforestation last year occurred more than twice as fast as in 2011.