US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced the formal launch of Operation Southern Spear on Thursday, a major military offensive led by the Southern Command (Southcom) aimed at “eliminating narco-terrorists from our hemisphere.”
Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz Pereira delivered a harsh public assessment on Thursday of the national economy and state institutions, describing the government he inherited from the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) as a "sewer of extraordinary proportions."
Presidents Donald J. Trump (United States) and Javier Milei (Argentina) announced on Thursday a "Framework for a Reciprocal Trade and Investment Agreement," reaffirming a strategic alliance based on shared democratic values and a commitment to free enterprise and open markets.
Julio De Vido, Argentina’s former Federal Planning Minister under the Kirchner administrations, was formally detained Thursday at the Comodoro Py courthouse to begin serving a four-year prison sentence for his role in the 2012 Once train disaster.
Paraguay and Argentina officially restarted construction Thursday on the Aña Cuá arm of the Yacyretá-Apipe hydroelectric dam, ending a two-year paralysis caused by financial disputes.
Forty years after the Nevado del Ruiz volcano wiped out the town of Armero, the ghosts of Colombia's deadliest tragedy still haunt its slopes, and families are still searching for lost children.
The First Section of Brazil's Superior Court of Justice (STJ) unanimously ruled on Wednesday in favor of transgender military personnel -or transitioning thereinto- who are thus protected from being relieved of duty for their condition alone.
British billionaire Joe Lewis, who has significant business interests in Argentine Patagonia and other parts of South America, has been granted an official pardon by US President Donald Trump, it was confirmed Thursday. The measure came after Lewis, 88, pleaded guilty last year