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360° video: Food security programmes to reduce displacement in rural areas

In Colombia, the UN is trying to help rural communities whose food security has been challenged by the government’s attempt to curb coca production through land-fumigation.

11/04/2017

Colombia

Colombian landslide death toll rises to 290

As the death toll rises, rescue workers are rushing to bury identified bodies in the town of Macoa as soon as possible, to stop the spread of infection.

05/04/2017

Colombia

Colombia: Damage and despair in mudslide-hit Mocoa

Funerals are taking place for some of the 273 victims of Saturday's disaster in the southern town.

04/04/2017

Sport

Dakar Rally returns to Peru for 2018 edition

Peru will return to the Dakar Rally schedule for the 40th edition of the race next year.

22/03/2017

World

Colombia: Providing aid after FARC peace deal

The ‘La Havana’ peace deal signed last August between Colombia and the main rebel group, FARC, started the process to put an end to a 52 year armed conflict.

16/03/2017

Brazil

Explained: The bribery scandal engulfing Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht and Latin American governments

A multi-million euro bribery scandal involving Brazil’s largest engineering company is spreading through South America.

23/02/2017

Republic of Ecuador

Moreno hopes Correa's legacy will carry him to victory in Ecuador

Ecuador's ruling Socialists are hoping Lenin Moreno will be able to carry forward the Correa legacy as the country votes for a new president on Sunday.

16/02/2017

Sport

Loeb retakes lead, Sunderland sitting pretty in Dakar 2017

The business end of the Dakar rally has arrived, and Sebastien Loeb and Sam Sunderland are looking good for race wins after stage eight.

10/01/2017

Sport

Britain's Sunderland wins stage five of Dakar Rally

Britain’s Sam Sunderland took over at the top of the Dakar Rally bikes standings on Friday after winning stage five.

06/01/2017

Sport

Barreda takes the lead as Price crashes out

Drama struck the Dakar rally on Thursday as defending bikes champion Toby Price suffered a heavy crash late in Stage 4 of the event, from San Salvador de Jujuy in Argentina to Tupiza in…

05/01/2017

Cult

Jodorowsky's 'Poesia sin fin' is a joyful look at director's youth

Eighty-seven-year-old Alejandro Jodorowsky's 'Poesia sin fin' tells the tale of the director's bohemian youth in 1940s and 50s Santiago.

24/12/2016

Sport

Stricken Chapecoense football club presented with the Copa Sudamericana trophy

Brazil’s Chapecoense football club were presented with the Copa Sudamericana trophy three weeks after suffering the loss of almost all their players in a plane…

22/12/2016

Brazil

Iconic statue shrouded in green for Chapecoense

Families and friends gathered at the foot of the Christ the Redeemer statue which looks out over Rio de Janeiro to honour those lost in the Colombia plane crash.

30/11/2016

Economy

What makes Chile a truly unique travel destination?

09/11/2016

Economy

Argentina: attracting more tourists through VAT-free travel

09/11/2016

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Chileans, Bolivians march against femicide

Tens of thousands of protesters marched on Chile’s and Bolivia’s capitals on Wednesday (October 19) in solidarity with an Argentine movement protesting gender-related violence after the rape and murde

21/10/2016

Explore

24 hours in Lima

Join euronews' Monica Pinna as she stretches out a day in the capital of Peru.

28/09/2016

Explore

Peruvian pleasures of the table

From the highest altitudes to the depths of the Pacific, Peru is rich in wild and untamed tastes unfamiliar to most palates. But now internationally-renowned chefs are putting Peru's cuisine on the ma

19/09/2016

Explore

Traveller's diary: from gastronomy's capital to coffee fields

19/09/2016

Venezuela

Venezuela president declares 60-day state of emergency

Venezuela’s president has announced a 60-day state of emergency, blaming the economic woes in his country on US efforts to topple his leftist

14/05/2016