BBC (UK)
Friday, August 3, 2012 - 00:00
Colombian guerillas have released a video of a journalist and an environmental engineer kidnapped last week. The two women worked for a contractor building an oil pipeline.
Thursday, August 2, 2012 - 00:00
Brazil's Supreme Court is set to begin the trial of 38 people in a corruption case that rocked the government of the then president Lula, in 2005
Thursday, August 2, 2012 - 00:00
Video footage taken from a nearby building shows a police officer shooting the man in the foot after marching him to a vacant plot.
Wednesday, August 1, 2012 - 00:00
Gen Roberto Dawe Gonzalez, and retired officers Tomas Angeles Dauahare, Ricardo Escorcia Vargas and Silvio Hernandez Soto, were arrested in May.
Tuesday, July 31, 2012 - 00:00
The report diverges from a UN study released last week, which said cocaine production had remained stable.
Tuesday, July 31, 2012 - 00:00
Mr Chavez will take part in a regional summit where Venezuela will become a member of the Mercosur trading bloc.
Monday, July 30, 2012 - 00:00
The two men, who are civilian pilots, had been captured on 10 July when their helicopter made an emergency landing in south-western Cauca province.
Friday, July 27, 2012 - 00:00
A gunman has killed at least four people and injured another nine at festivities in Huehuetan, in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero.
Friday, July 27, 2012 - 00:00
Police in Chile have arrested a man who had a weapons arsenal at two apartments he owns in the capital, Santiago.
Friday, July 27, 2012 - 00:00
Venezuela's prisons are a hotbed of corruption and overcrowding - and a thorn in the side of President Hugo Chavez.