Tag: South America

A boy walks on a street decorated for the upcoming World Cup in Manaus, Brazil, Wednesday, May 21, 2014. Manaus is one of the host cities for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Record World Cup numbers game for FIFA and Brazil

Graham Dunbar · May 22, 2014 8:45 pm

US firms extend $2 billion oil loan to Venezuela

US firms extend $2 billion oil loan to Venezuela

Washington Examiner · May 21, 2014 10:54 pm

US government wary of sanctions on Venezuela

US government wary of sanctions on Venezuela

lugojoshua-goodman, luis-alonso · May 21, 2014 10:37 pm

Secretary of State John Kerry talks with with Mexican Foreign Secretary Jose Antonio Meade, accompanied by US Ambassador to Mexico, E. Anthony Wayne, third from left, and Mexican Education Secretary Emilio Chuayffet, fifth from left, before they join a joint bilateral forum on higher education, innovation and research, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Mexico City, Wednesday, May 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, Pool)

Kerry blames Venezuelan gov’t in crisis

Lara Jakes · May 21, 2014 9:06 pm

Dispute among Bolivian gold miners leaves 1 dead

Dispute among Bolivian gold miners leaves 1 dead

Washington Examiner · May 20, 2014 8:27 pm

Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos delivers a speech during a military ceremony in Bogota, Colombia. (AP/Fernando Vergara)

Polls get tighter as Colombian presidential vote approaches

Ian Alexander · May 20, 2014 4:00 am

Police carry bags with the remains of children who burned to death in a bus, behind, in Fundacion in northern Colombia, Sunday, May 18, 2014. Colombian authorities have detained the driver of the overcrowded bus that burned, killing 32 children, the local mayor said Monday. Luz Estella Duran, mayor of the village of Fundacion, said witness accounts suggest the driver may have left the vehicle running with the children on board when he descended from the bus to fill tank from a portable gas container. (AP Photo/Oscar Mejia, Hoy Diario del Magdalena)

Colombia charges driver in bus fire that killed 32

LIBARDO CARDONACESAR GARCIA · May 20, 2014 3:10 am

200 Nicaragua students return home from Venezuela

200 Nicaragua students return home from Venezuela

Washington Examiner · May 20, 2014 2:25 am

In this May 15, 2014 photo, trash floats on a polluted water channel that flows into the Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. With just over two years to go until the Rio Olympics, nearly 70 percent of the sewage in the metropolitan area of 12 million inhabitants continues to flow untreated, along with thousands of tons of garbage daily, into area rivers, the bay and even Rio's famed beaches like Copacabana and Ipanema.Several Olympic sports federations raised fears that Rio's polluted waters could prove harmful to athletes' health. Exposure to fecal matter can cause Hepatitis A, dysentery, cholera other diseases. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Energy and Environment

Sailing official wants Rio water pollution tests

Stephen Wade · May 19, 2014 8:01 pm

FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2013, file photo, small coffee producer Hector Perez show coffee beans damaged by the roya fungus in San Gaspar Vivar, Guatemala. The U.S. government is stepping up efforts to help Central American farmers fight a devastating coffee disease _ and to keep the price of your morning cup down. A fungus called coffee rust has already caused more than $1 billion in damage across the Latin American region. It is especially deadly to Arabica coffee, the bean that makes up most high-end, specialty coffees, and it is already affecting the price of some of those coffees in the United States. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

Coffee fungus raising prices for high-end blends

MARY CLARE JALONICK · May 19, 2014 3:28 pm

Bus fire in Colombia kills at least 32 children

Bus fire in Colombia kills at least 32 children

Washington Examiner · May 18, 2014 10:18 pm

Inmates end revolt, free hostages at Brazil prison

Inmates end revolt, free hostages at Brazil prison

Washington Examiner · May 18, 2014 9:17 pm