‘This is the first time since I was born it has dried up like this,” says Rita Suaña, 48, one of the female leaders of the Uros, an ancestral people of the Altiplano who live on the waters of Lake Titicaca, on the border between Peru and Bolivia. “We used to fish here, but now you can’t...
Venezuela‘s Nicolas Maduro and Guyana’s Irfaan Ali shook hands after a two-hour meeting on the Caribbean island nation of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The two sides agreed that they “will not threaten or use force against one another in any circumstances,” the...
Brazil has recorded its hottest ever temperature – 44.8C (112.6F) – as parts of the country endure a stifling heatwave. The record was hit on Sunday in the town of Araçuaí, in Brazil’s south-eastern state of Minas Gerais. The unprecedented weather has been attributed to...
The Mercosur-European Union trade agreement is back in the deep freeze, its ratification iced by the insistence of France’s President Emmanuel Macron on more muscular enforcement of environmental standards in Brazil and last-minute reservations raised by Argentina’s outgoing President...
The South American Division of Seventh-day Adventists will increase the sending of missionaries to other regions of the world so that the biblical message, especially about the soon return of Jesus, reaches places with little or no Adventist presence. The first step in this direction took...
