Brazil’s former presidents Lula and Rousseff charged with corruptionProsecutors claim Workers’ Party colleagues involved in €400m bribery schemeWed Sept 06 2017 - 19:25
Rio organisers 'never intended' to aid Irish tickets inquiryEmail from Mr Justice Carroll Moran to legal representative ended up in spam folderTue Aug 15 2017 - 20:34
Olympics tickets: How Irishman’s arrest spawned international controversyLast summer’s controversy at Games in Rio put OCI, THG and Pro 10 in spotlightMon Aug 14 2017 - 18:23
Two rival legislatures vie for power in VenezuelaOpposition-controlled national assembly meets in attempts to thwart President MaduroWed Aug 09 2017 - 20:01
Venezuelan military dissidents attempt uprisingVenezuela’s political crisis intensifies following reports of gun battles in ValenciaMon Aug 07 2017 - 01:00
Venezuela to be suspended from trade bloc over new assemblyOpposition says new constitutional body seals the country’s slide into dictatorshipFri Aug 04 2017 - 18:16
Brazil’s president weakened despite winning corruption voteMichel Temer saved from possible supreme court trial that would have ended termThu Aug 03 2017 - 18:12
Venezuela crisis deepens as opposition leaders arrestedPoliticians serving house arrest taken from their homes following controversial electionTue Aug 01 2017 - 19:47
Brazil set to vote on removing second president in a yearMichel Temer confident he has the votes to defeat the effort to suspend him from officeTue Aug 01 2017 - 17:30
Venezuela grows increasingly isolated after electionUS imposes sanctions on president Nicolás Maduro following controversial pollMon Jul 31 2017 - 21:15
Deaths reported in Venezuela as voters clash with policeNew constitutional assembly deemed by critics to mark end of Venezuelan democracySun Jul 30 2017 - 23:53
Work on Dublin Airport immigration detention centre to beginBrazil’s foreign ministry raises ‘discontent’ with Irish diplomats over border proceduresFri Jul 28 2017 - 01:00
Five dead in Venezuelan protests after opposition calls strikeGovernment plans to rewrite constitution cause serious unrest and talk of sanctionsThu Jul 27 2017 - 19:50
Lula defies corruption conviction by launching 2018 presidential campaignBrazil’s former president, facing 10 years in prison, says witnesses lied to avoid jailThu Jul 13 2017 - 19:08
Rio police deny Pat Hickey’s allegations over arrest footageEx-OCI boss claims Brazilian media paid officers to allow filming of his detentionSat Jul 08 2017 - 01:00
South American governments pledge to help Venezuela out of crisisFears that country headed for collapse as political tensions escalate and violence flaresFri Jul 07 2017 - 19:31
Pressure mounts on Brazilian president as close ally arrestedFormer minister Geddel Vieira Lima detained as part of ongoing corruption investigationTue Jul 04 2017 - 18:34
Bribery charge against Brazilian president reaches parliamentVote in congress could see controversial Michel Termer removed from officeThu Jun 29 2017 - 22:18
Brazil’s president criticises prosecutors over corruption chargeMichel Temer accuses authorities of seeking ‘revenge, destruction and vengeance’Wed Jun 28 2017 - 21:27
Brazil’s president Michel Temer charged with corruptionFurther charges including obstruction of justice expected to follow this weekTue Jun 27 2017 - 11:19
Former Argentine president Cristina Kirchner returns to politicsAs head of new party, Kirchner will contest a senate seat in midterm electionsMon Jun 26 2017 - 19:37
Michael Lynn cites his children in bid to block extraditionFugitive former solicitor says his children’s births should allow him to remain in BrazilMon Jun 12 2017 - 01:00
Brazilian president set to face corruption chargesMichel Temer survives vote on mandate and maintains he is victim of conspiracySun Jun 11 2017 - 17:43
President keeps a tenuous grasp on power in troubled BrazilMichel Temer rides out corruption storm as lack of replacement plays in his favourFri May 26 2017 - 19:13
Brazilian president Michel Temer facing bribery allegationsLeader fights for political life over link to payments bound for jailed colleagueThu May 18 2017 - 19:13
Brazilian president meets EU envoys over meat inspection standardsBrussels seeks ‘urgent clarification’ as officials claim Brazil’s meat products are safeSun Mar 19 2017 - 23:11
Dozens of leading figures named in Brazil corruption inquiryLeaks show that Lula, Rousseff and five cabinet ministers among those facing investigationWed Mar 15 2017 - 18:36
Pressure mounts on Brazil’s president over illicit financing claimPolitical leaders across South America now being dragged into corruption inquiry netThu Mar 02 2017 - 19:12
Brazil: Corruption investigation net closes on presidentMichel Temer’s cabinet chief steps aside on ‘health grounds’ after illicit fundraising claimFri Feb 24 2017 - 17:11
Brazil police strike leads to mounting violence and 140 murdersWorst recession in decades means state cannot meet demands for pay increasesMon Feb 13 2017 - 18:09
Brazilian billionaire arrested on return to RioBatista, who is in Bangu prison, is accused of being involved in a corruption scandalMon Jan 30 2017 - 17:45
Interpol to help Brazilian police arrest fugitive ex-billionaireEike Batista, once world’s seventh richest person, wanted on corruption chargesFri Jan 27 2017 - 17:33
Corruption inquiry in disarray after death of Brazilian judgeTeori Zavascki, supreme court justice investigating Petrobras affair, dies in plane crashFri Jan 20 2017 - 16:58
Brazil prison chief removed over collusion in massacre allegationsLetters from dead inmates accuse man of accepting money from gang behind murdersThu Jan 12 2017 - 16:50
Brazil’s jails are a grisly battleground for rival drug gangsLast week’s massacres were shocking, but barbarism is routine inside Brazil’s prisonsSun Jan 08 2017 - 15:45
South America sees Latin populist tide recedeWorld in 2016 review: Corruption scandals in Brazil and chaos in VenezuelaThu Dec 29 2016 - 01:00
Pat Hickey prosecutor says ‘process will continue without him’‘Inevitable’ that OCI head would be released and allowed home to Ireland before trialWed Dec 21 2016 - 19:12
Brazil’s newly minted president already under siegeMichel Temer sinking under weight of Petrobras graft scandal and rage over austerityFri Dec 16 2016 - 19:31
Brazil court forwards senate president for embezzlement trialRenan Calheiros accused of misusing public funds to support daughter he had from affairFri Dec 02 2016 - 18:30
Colombia’s congress approves peace deal with FarcGovernment criticised over refusal to put revised agreement to second referendumThu Dec 01 2016 - 11:08
Colombia plane crash: ‘pilot indicated fuel problem’Miguel Quiroga had requested landing priority shortly before fatal crash near MedellínWed Nov 30 2016 - 20:07
Brazil in mourning after plane carrying soccer team crashesChapecoense staff and players among about 70 fatalities in crash near Medellín, ColombiaTue Nov 29 2016 - 19:46
Fidel Castro’s death reveals diverging views on human rightsIn Castro’s Cuba there was never a debate about balancing individual and social rightsTue Nov 29 2016 - 01:00
Fidel Castro: tragedy of a revolution that turned sourThe late leader brought great social advances to Cuba, but with these came repressionMon Nov 28 2016 - 01:00
Castro exercised unparalleled influence over Latin AmericaAnalysis: Cuban leader seen as embodiment of resistance to dictators – and US powerSun Nov 27 2016 - 12:52
Brazilian minister accused in corruption scandal resignsPresident Michel Temer may face inquiry over influence peddlingFri Nov 25 2016 - 18:59
Latest Brazil resignation proves questions of ethics still unsolvedAnalysis: President seems to think it normal for minister to lobby another on personal interestsFri Nov 25 2016 - 16:11
Post-Olympics Rio descends into gang fuelled violenceCreator of favela ‘pacification’ programme quits as funding for security evaporatesMon Nov 07 2016 - 01:00
Brazilian politicians still feel the heat from Petrobras scandalFrom the president on down, Brasília’s political elite dangle as federal judges circleFri Nov 04 2016 - 01:00
National assembly calls for rebellion as Venezuela referendum is suspendedSitting of assembly disrupted by supporters of Chavista president Nicolás MaduroMon Oct 24 2016 - 18:40
