On Tuesday the famed Russian traveler, Fedor Konyukhov crossed South America on his solo balloon flight around the world. After flying over the continent he set off over the Atlantic Ocean’s airspace, his son Oskar told TASS […]
The number of vessel calls dropped 6.4% and passengers landed 4.1%, during the last 2015/2016 cruise season compared to 2041/2015, according to the final report from Uruguay’s Tourism ministry. The number of passenger and crew […]
Fishing for giant squid (Dosidicus gigas) finally seems to be improving in northwest Peru, which has brought some peace to Paita and other northern ports that rely heavily on this product. The lack of the […]
Stepped-up security screenings produced long lines for travelers at Brazil’s main airports on Monday in the aftermath of the truck attack in Nice, France and weeks ahead of the Olympic Games scheduled to open next […]
The Foreign Affairs Minister of Bolivia, David Choquehuanca arrived in Chile by road on a private visit, which has caused uneasiness among the authorities of this southern country. Accompanied by a bus and nine 4×4 […]
Intrinsic to social life is its variety. As such, taking a sociological perspective, it’s never boring: contradiction spices things up. Even more so, contradiction necessitates conflict of opinion, and so incites debate, thereby advancing democracy […]
SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela — Tebie Gonzalez and Ramiro Ramirez still have their sleek apartment, a fridge covered with souvenir magnets from vacations abroad, and closets full of name brand clothes. But they feel hunger drawing […]
With only a handful of officers present, police could not stop workers from forming a picket line, so they instead told a bus driver to run over the striking workers. Members of the Chilean gendarmerie […]
July’s Side Street Films releases take us from Santiago, Chile to the Mississippi Gulf coast in the US. Colonia is a drama telling the story behind a little-known torture camp for political prisoners during General […]
The families of executed and missing prisoners in the German enclave Colonia Dignidad (Dignity Colony) during Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s regime today asked support from the German government so that the site, now renamed Villa […]
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