A fire whirlwind or 'firenado' has torn through a sugarcane field in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. Firefighting teams worked to extinguish the flames earlier this month and...

Ione WellsSouth America correspondent in Brasília andLeandro PrazeresBBC News BrasilWatch: Brazil's Lula talks Trump, US tariffs and oil in BBC interviewBrazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has told...

The United States has officially named Colombia as a country which has "demonstrably failed" to uphold its obligations to control drug trafficking, but stopped short of cutting off the...

President Donald Trump says the US military has destroyed an alleged Venezuelan drug vessel travelling in international waters on the way to the US.Trump said on Monday that three...

A large truck carrying bottles of soda fell into a sinkhole in Mexico City. Authorities had cordoned off the site before the truck sank rear-first further into the sinkhole....

Vanessa BuschschlüterLatin America editor, BBC News OnlineReutersFormer President Jair Bolsonaro is under house arrestJair Bolsonaro, who governed Brazil from January 2019 to December 2022, has received a 27-year jail...

Ione WellsSouth America correspondent in Brasília andVanessa BuschschlüterBBC NewsWatch: What you need to know about Bolsonaro’s coup prison sentenceThe former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, has been sentenced to...

Former president of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro has been sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison, after he was found guilty of plotting a military coup by a...

At least 10 people have been killed and more than 40 injured after a freight train crashed into a double-decker bus in central Mexico, authorities have said.The incident happened...

Two out of five Supreme Court justices tasked with deciding the fate of the former Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, have found the ex-leader guilty of plotting a coup.But Bolsonaro...

Ione WellsSouth America correspondent in São PauloWatch: Thousands of Bolsonaro supporters protest in BrazilOn Sunday, Brazilians celebrated their country's independence from Portugal as they do every year on 7...

AFP via Getty ImagesThe Argentine human rights activist Rosa Roisinblit has died at the age of 106, her organisation says.She was honorary president and a founding member of the...