Hungry survivors looted supermarkets and emergency crews tried to get aid to nearly 80,000 people driven from their homes Wednesday as rain-spawned mudslides and floods killed at least 97 people and isolated cities in southern Brazil. ...more

November 28, 2008

Russian oil companies could soon begin searching for oil in deep Gulf of Mexico waters off Cuba, a top diplomat said just days before Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visits the island. ...more

November 23, 2008

For decades, Brazil has jealously safeguarded the right to decide the future of its national patrimony, the Amazon rain forest. It has responded to the plea of developing countries to stop the destruction of the rain forest with a defiant cry: "Hands off our Amazon!" Now, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has come up with a more practical response to those who want to save one of the most precious environmental resources on the planet: "Put your money where your mouth is!" ...more

September 3, 2008

Brazil will spend $160 million by the end of next year on the development of a nuclear-propelled submarine to protect the oil reserves found recently off its coast, the defense minister said Friday. ...more

August 30, 2008

Fidel Castro's leaving office on his own terms is not the kind of change that successive American presidents have envisioned for Cuba. In fact, it's a sign that U.S. efforts to isolate that country and bring down its socialist government have failed. ...more

February 21, 2008

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva visited a teeming hillside shantytown Friday to launch a multimillion-dollar program to build an outdoor elevator and sewage systems, improve roads and upgrade housing for slum residents. ...more

December 1, 2007

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist said Monday that he supports a reduction in the U.S. tariff that makes Brazilian ethanol expensive for American fuel suppliers, but suggested that serious debate over the tariff is unlikely until after the 2008 U.S. presidential election. ...more

November 6, 2007