SANTIAGO – Some 225 million Latin Americans live below the poverty line, according to a report released Tuesday by the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, or ECLAC.

SAN JUAN – The Ministry of Health of Trinidad and Tobago announced Tuesday that six cases of Zika virus have been confirmed on the island of Trinidad.

SANTIAGO – A total of 19 forest fires continue to burn in five Chilean regions, according a statement released Sunday by the National Emergency Office, or Onemi.

BRASILIA – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s administration, two state governments and mining company Samarco reached an agreement that covers the cost of cleaning up the Doce River basin, which

TEGUCIGALPA – Berta Caceres, a Honduran indigenous leader who led demonstrations against hydroelectric projects in her homeland, was killed early Thursday at her residence in the western city of La

BOGOTA – More than 300 peasants from the Caribbean province of Bolivar were driven off their land by the intense drought caused by the El Niño weather phenomenon, in the first evacuation for that r

LIMA – Peru’s government has declared a 90-day water quality emergency in several northern jungle districts where two oil spills occurred due to ruptures of a pipeline operated by state-owned oil c

LIMA – A landslide injured 25 people and destroyed the dwellings of 100 residents of two remote communities in Pampa Hermosa, a district in the central Peruvian region of Junin, media reports said.

MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s Profepa environmental protection agency on Monday fined German automaker Volkswagen’s local unit just over 168 million pesos (around $9 million) for selling 2016 model vehicl

SANTIAGO DE CHILE - An earthquake of magnitude 6.3 on the Richter scale shook five regions along the coast of central Chile, according to the National Seismology Center (NSC).