South America Politics News

What began today is a hope of a good bargain with the current most powerful states, in order to save our planet. It sounds disturbing to trust our future on them, this is because we can not trust completely the...

One of America's most wanted - a convicted child molester who fled the United States after failing to register as a sex offender - has been caught in Belize where he was working as a chess instructor in schools for...

Bolivian President Evo Morales, who is set to start another five-year term, directed a warning Monday to the U.S. that his government would maintain its independence in dealing with other nations.     Opinion polls following presidential and congressional elections on Sunday...

Confederado, Bolivar, Central and Real, plus state-run Banfoandes, he added. The other institutions which were taken over, the Canarias and Pro Vivienda banks, would be liquidated, Chavez said. Chavez said last Friday that Venezuela's "large-scale private banking...is solid" and that...

Bolivia's first indigenous president has won the biggest popular mandate in recent memory , destroying three political parties that rotated the presidency between them for the last two decades. In doing this, Mr Morales has gone a long way to...

By: JP I have sat and watched patiently as aspersions fly about, creating doubt between different political leaders in Turks and Caicos. Now I see that there is no deadline date in sight to end this situation. I am frustrated....

Bolivia has had rocky relations with the U.S. lately with the US ambassador being turfed out and Morales breaking off relations with the Drug Enforcement Administration. He has also nationalised some parts of the economy. Nevertheless his aid for the...

Bolivian President Evo Morales easily won his second five-year term Sunday night, solidifying the revolution he promises to bring to the country's long-oppressed indigenous majority. While recent elections in countries such as Uruguay and Honduras have seen Latin America's pendulum...

A corruption scandal has shaken Venezuela 's financial system and triggered the arrest of tycoons who are linked to President Hugo Chávez 's government. Authorities have closed seven banks and detained eight bankers in a widening crackdown which has toppled...