The takeover caused an uproar outside the country, but many Argentines supported the move, and the economy is still projected to grow, albeit more slowly.
High in the Chilean desert, scientists have installed one of the world’s largest ground-based astronomical projects to look for clues to the origins of the universe.
Seventeen employees of the American oil giant Chevron and the rig operator Transocean could face charges connected to an offshore oil spill, adding to Chevron’s woes in Brazil.
After years of hearing lectures on fiscal prudence from the West, many in Latin America are left with bewilderment, and even a little schadenfreude, at the West’s problems.
An American with a nickname that translates as “Sir Whiteboy” chases fame in Rio de Janeiro’s gritty periphery as a singer and a composer of Brazilian funk.
The measures restrict Internet messages, grant decree powers to President Hugo Chávez and prevent legislators from breaking with his political movement.
Millions cast ballots in tightly contested legislative elections seen as a test of whether the opposition can gain ahead of the presidential vote in two years.
A long-festering conflict in a mining town does not square well with China’s portrayal of its rising profile in Latin America, in which everyone benefits.
The leaders of Colombia and Venezuela met in an effort to repair relations that deteriorated over claims that Colombian guerrillas were operating from Venezuela.
Public health specialists consider the diseases stemming from the buildup of human waste in tent camps as possibly the most pressing health threat in Haiti.
The shift shows how the global financial crisis is hampering Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s ideological agenda and making him more pragmatic as he seeks to bolster his country’s stream of income.
President Hugo Chávez’s supporters suffered a stinging defeat in several state and municipal races, with the opposition gaining control in several important footholds.
Increasingly, the question confronting Bolivia is whether President Evo Morales can redress the indigenous majority’s historical grievances without causing national chaos.
President Hugo Chávez’s government expelled two employees of Human Rights Watch after chafing at their documentation of widespread political discrimination.
At least 38 Warao Indians have died from an outbreak that preliminary studies indicate might be a type of infectious rabies transmitted by bites from bats.
By switching course on two contentious policies, Hugo Chávez displayed a willingness for self-reinvention that has served him well throughout his long political career.