The Latest Breaking News from South America

New research suggests humans lived in South America at the same time as now extinct giant sloths, bolstering evidence that people arrived in the Americas earlier than previously thought

Humans were living in Brazil earlier than previously thought, prehistoric sloth-bone pendants suggest.

Chelsea transfer news: Moises Caicedo has opened up on one of South America's best young talents and how lucky the Blues are to have already signed Kendry Paez.

It also puts 1.5 degree global warming limit at risk next year

Jamie McMann was due to fly to Cancun, Mexico, where he would meet up his girlfriend, who had been travelling South America for three months, however he wasn't allowed on the flight

Uruguay may be one of the smallest countries in South America, but it’s also where one of the darkest moments in the continent’s history took place. On 27 June 1973, a coup d’etat ushered in a dictatorship that would rule the country with an iron fist for 12 years. During…

A record 110 tonnes of cocaine were seized in the Belgian port of Antwerp in 2022. The city is now the main gateway into Europe for the drug, which largely comes from South America concealed in fruit shipments. Faced with this trafficking epidemic, Belgian authorities have recruited almost 100 extra…

On the far north edge of Colombia there is a desert peninsula the size of Wales, where Arizona-like landscapes meet the sparkling waters of the Caribbean. Home to the indigenous Wayuu people, La Guajira is a place of great “beauty and strangeness”, said Ruaridh Nicoll in the Financial Times. The…

From Bielsa with Uruguay to Simeone at Atlético, managers from the South American nation are everywhere – except Brazil

A dozen rheas escape from farm, five caught, rest remain at large; residents warned of dangerous claws and kicks.

The second largest South American economy is once again facing record inflation, while the peso, the local currency, has lost most of its value.