Burning buses, trash: Rio and Sao Paulo hit by riots ahead of soccer world cup in Brazil Demonstrators clashed with police and burned trash and portable toilets in downtown Sao Paulo on Tuesday (April...
Venezuela violence: Protesters filmed setting fire to a police water cannon in Caracas The protests in Caracas are aimed at President Nicolas Maduro who is being called on to resign. He says protesters want...
Alvaro Villarueda starts his morning the same way every day — putting in a call to his friend who has a friend who works at a Caracas, Venezuela, supermarket. Today, he’s looking for sugar,...
Brazilian government bonds are suffering the biggest quarterly losses since the run-up to former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s election in 2002 led to speculation that the nation would default. Dollar-denominated bonds from Brazil, Latin America’s biggest...
Fierce clashes broke out between protesters and riot police during a demonstration near the Mineirao Stadium in Belo Horizonte on Wednesday. Clashes began after tens of thousands of protesters, in part angered by the...
Million-strong anti-govt protests sweep Brazil A hundred cities across Brazil have seen a fresh wave of mass protests while the first death has been reported among the demonstrators, in the state of Sao Paulo....
The Brazilian government will deploy National Public Security Force in five cities hosting the FIFA football tournament in an effort to contain the ongoing protests across the country. The announcement by the Brazilian Justice...
(Photo: Reuters) – As many as 200,000 demonstrators marched through the streets of Brazil’s biggest cities on Monday in a swelling wave of protest tapping into widespread anger at poor public services, police violence...
Bolivian President Evo Morales has said he will expel the US Agency for International Development (USAID). Mr Morales accused the agency of seeking to undermine his government. USAID had been working in Bolivia for...
In Venezuela’s capital Caracas police have fired tear gas to disperse crowds protesting the official results of the presidential election. It came after Venezuela’s electoral body rejected calls for a recount of Sunday’s vote...
