While fewer trees are being chopped down in Brazil and Colombia, the rest of the region continues to spiral. The environmental summit will be a key event for the leaders of Peru and Venezuela, who will face each other on the international stage for the first time
The police ombudsman has opened an investigation after 600 officers were deployed in a favela following the fatal shooting. Witnesses reported abuses including alleged torture
Daniel Ortega’s regime is close to Moscow and has an autocratic track record; it prevented a unanimous statement on the invasion, but the Central American nation stands alone
The owner of UC Global, which held a security contract at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, also kept intimate images of a diplomat in his safe for alleged blackmail attempt
Uruguay is the country the United States prefers to include in expanding the treaty between the United States, Mexico and Canada. The Americans’ interest in the tiny South American nation is explained by its ambition to integrate Mercosur
The South American city’s privileged public transportation network, 48 parks, 13 million square meters of vegetation and a genuine recycling culture ensure that the miracle that began half a century ago will endure
Macron invites dozens of world leaders to redefine financial architecture and release funds for low-income countries at risk due to environmental crisis
The political right knows that most Brazilians have rejected the coup-plotting, radical wing of the former president, but they also know that voters do not want a full return of the Workers’ Party in its purest form
‘The submitted proposals are intended to question the unprecedented brutality applied by the dictatorship of Ortega and Murillo,’ claim denationalized Nicaraguan dissidents
In his daily medical update Wednesday, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni added that Francis was at work during the day and had received the Eucharist during a moment of prayer in the chapel of his hospital suite
The meeting has given Nicolás Maduro a diplomatic boost, but Chile and Uruguay were quick to distance themselves from Lula’s comments about the crisis in the country
Lula wants to revive the Union of South American Nations, or Unasur, which was launched in 2008 to boost cooperation, but became largely defunct about a decade later in disputes over leadership
The meeting is part of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s attempt to reinvigorate regional integration efforts that have in the past floundered amid the continent’s political swings and polarization
The Ukrainian president hoped to persuade Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to change their position on the war in Ukraine
The marriage of the mayor of Araucária to a 16-year-old girl and the appointment of her mother to a position on the city council has sparked debate on a widespread phenomenon
The U.N. secretary general talks to EL PAÍS about the Russian invasion, Europe’s failure to address the refugee crisis and why more needs to be done to address global warming
There are several huge projects that activists and experts say would devastate the natural world, and seriously dent Lula’s newfound image as a defender of the environment, if they proceed under his watch
The Brazilian president called it ‘an embarrassment’ and ‘a crazy thing’ that Assange would be jailed for denouncing fraud, and bemoaned the press for failing to come to his defense
A fragmented and polarized world is living through a strange scenario, in which a single power no longer has total hegemony. Central and South America must now navigate this new political climate
The president of Brazil assures EL PAÍS from Madrid that the agreement between Russia and Ukraine is possible. “That’s why I try to do my part,” he argues