Brazil’s Yanomami indigenous tribe has been complaining of land encroachments by illegal gold miners in the remote rainforest reserve along the Venezuela border. Brazilian police have arrested at least 26 people in a major operation against illegal gold miners in an Amazon reserve near the border with Venezuela. The operation was carried out in the Yanomami indigenous reserve, where illegal gold... 

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez greets supporters during an election rally in Anzoategui, Venezuela on July 12, 2012. President Hugo Chavez has said that Venezuela poses no threat to anyone, including the United States, which considers the Bolivarian Republic a hostile state. In an interview with Fox News on Wednesday, Republican US presidential candidate Mitt Romney said President Barack Obama is... 

Russia and Cuba are strengthening ties again, after a break which followed the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union supplied Cuba with oil – up to 13 mn tons each year – and quantities of arms. In return, it received Cuban tobacco, coffee, fruit and sugar and enjoyed the right to build and operate military facilities on Cuban territory. After the Soviet collapse, however, these exchanges... 

Cars covered in snow in central Chile At least 16 people have died in Chile so far this year due to freezing temperatures in the country’s capital city of Santiago, according to officials. On Sunday, one homeless person died on La Paz Street in the capital’s downtown area and another one died some five blocks from the government palace of La Moneda. The second victim was a 50-year-old man found... 

The Mexican government has declared a national animal health emergency in the wake of a new outbreak of bird flu that has affected some 1.7 million fowl, leaving around 870,000 dead. ­“We have activated a national animal health emergency with the goal of diagnosing, preventing, controlling and eradicating the Type A, sub-type H7N3 bird flu virus,” the country’s agriculture ministry said. The... 

Ousted Paraguay President Fernando Lugo South American foreign ministers have suspended Paraguay from the regional trade bloc, Mercosur, over last week’s ouster of former President Fernando Lugo. However, the bloc stopped short of imposing economic sanctions on Paraguay, which is one of the four founding members of the Mercosur bloc, along with Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. Paraguay was banned from... 

Chilean President Sebastian Pinera (L) and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao shake hands in Santiago on June 26, 2012. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has announced that China and Chile plan to increase their bilateral trade to 60 billion US dollars by 2015 in order to strengthen their economic relations. He made the comments at a joint press conference with Chilean President Sebastian Pinera in Santiago on Tuesday,... 

Ousted Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo Cries of outrage have been made across several Latin American nations who have refused to recognize Paraguay’s new leader, following the ouster of the country’s President Fernando Lugo. On Friday, cabinet ministers from eight Latin American countries gathered in Paraguay’s capital Asuncion. Thousands of supporters of the former ruler have gathered... 

The Latin American country is planning not only to legalize marijuana, but to actually start selling it. By dose. ­The Uruguayan government has devised a new measure to fight drug trafficking: lawmakers are to send a bill to Congress on Wednesday that would legalize marijuana sales. Only the government would be allowed to sell special cigarettes, report local news outlets. The new indulgence would... 

A lot of media outside Ecuadorean embassy in London waiting for Assange WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has requested political asylum and is under the protection of the Ecuadorian embassy in London, according to the site’s Twitter. Ecuador’s foreign minister Ricardo Patino says Assange has taken refuge in the South American nation’s embassy in London and is seeking political asylum. Assange... 

The TV grab, showing the Venezuelan drone built in cooperation with Iran, was broadcast on June 13, 2012 during a visit by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says his country has manufactured its first unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), dubbed Arpia-001 (Harpy-001), in cooperation with Iranian experts in order to strengthen the South American state’s defensive power. Venezuela... 

Argentina’s president plans to personally attend a session of the UN Special Committee on Decolonization on June 14 as her country tries to assert its sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands, Press TV reports. June 14th marks the anniversary of the end of the war between Argentina and Britain over the islands in 1982. Ahead of President Cristina Fernandez’s address in New York, a group of local... 

A flag reading "Fight and Comeback" with the logo of the Argentine oil company YPF is seen at the front of the presidential palace Casa Rosada in Buenos Aires, April 12, 2012. The Argentinean government has seized the country’s biggest oil company, Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales (YPF), ousting the Spanish controlling shareholder, Repsol. In the first shareholder meeting since the takeover,... 

Five million Brazilian farmers are locked in a lawsuit with US-based biotech giant Monsanto, suing for as much as 6.2 billion euros. They say that the genetic-engineering company has been collecting royalties on crops it unfairly claims as its own. The farmers claim that Monsanto unfairly collects exorbitant profits every year worldwide on royalties from “renewal” seed harvests. “Renewal”... 

False color image of the galaxy LAEJ095950.99+021219.1. Astronomers at Arizona State University have located a remote and faint galaxy, which is one of the ten most distant known objects in the space. The team used the IMACS instrument on the Magellan Telescopes in Chile and identified the galaxy ‘LAEJ095950.99+021219.1’ that is about 13 billion light-years away from the Earth. “This galaxy...