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Imagine some gauchos, nuns, a lawyer and bubbling baths – no joke. The lawyer started Saturday with a wake up call to prepare for the day’s adventures. The initial invitation made him nervous – We want to invite you to...

Brazil is the venue of the 2016 Olympics. The sudden blackout it experienced from 10.15 pm is viewed seriously by the administration – was it an act of sabotage? A repeat during the Olympic Games could throw all preparations out...

After the traditional Celtic inspired Halloween on October 31st, comes the Catholic inspired All Saints Day on November 1st. The following day November 2nd serves a wide swath in Latin America known as the Day of the Dead. In Brazil,...

Colombia will not be provoked into armed conflict with Venezuela despite the neighboring country's aggressive rhetoric and its dynamiting of two cross-border pedestrian bridges, Colombia's defense minister said on Friday. "We will not be provoked. The insults bounce off us,"...

Four soldiers from Venezuela's National Guard captured in Colombian territory will be repatriated in a bid to ease tensions between the South American neighbors, President Alvaro Uribe's government said Saturday. The Colombian navy intercepted the men Friday in El Aceitico...

So when on November 8th he announced during his weekly television show that Venezuela’s army should “prepare for war”, apparently with Colombia, this was greeted with concern but not panic. Sure enough, three days later Mr Chávez was denying his...