Did Argentina's President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner strike a secret deal with Tehran to cover up Iran's role in a terror attack in exchange for guarantees of oil imports?
Protesters marched to a construction site in Argentina's Neuquén province where plans are moving ahead for a spaceport to be overseen by China's space agency.
After two decades of struggle Mapuche communities are still trying to regain ancestral land. Meanwhile, forestry companies try to blame major fires on Mapuche activists.
After more than 41 years, two military officers have been brought to justice for the murder of two US citizens in the army's 1973 coup.
President Cristina Fernández changed her tune on the supposed "suicide" of the prosecutor investigating a massive anti-Semitic bombing—found dead just before he was to testify.
It's not clear that anyone in Argentina's political class really wants the AMIA case solved. Israel and the US don't look much better. And suspect suicides are nothing new in Argentina.
A prosecutor in Argentina was killed days after he accused President Cristina Fernández of complicity in covering up Iran's involvement in a 1994 terrorist attack.
South America remains a huge market for Monsanto's GM seeds, but grassroots resistance may be starting to affect the company's bottom line.
Barrick Gold's problems with its giant mine high in the Andes show no signs of going away. Local activists are pushing to have Chile's government revoke the mine's permit.
Brazil's National Truth Commission released a long-awaited report finding that the military regime engaged in massive human rights violations between 1964 and 1985.
A group of Chilean women are trying to have the courts recognize the sort of sexual violence they suffered during the Pinochet dictatorship as a separate category of crime.
Media reports in Brazil suggest that the crackdown on favela gangs in the prelude to this year's contentious World Cup was actually a police extermination campaign of favela youth.
