This gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past week by The Associated Press from ...

"There's a lot of insecurity in Rio de Janeiro," said Gilmar Mendes ... a senior fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America and the co-founder of the Brazilian Forum on Public Security.

SANTIAGO - Climate variability and extreme weather events stalk at least 20 Latin American countries and increase the risk of ...

Dozens of children with disability gathered on Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach on Tuesday to receive presents — and joy — from the white-bearded man himself, a joint effort by the city's ...

The Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro is working to translate its ... investors but are pressing public-health concerns in Latin America, such as malaria, yellow fever, Chagas disease and Zika.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Santa Claus has arrived in Rio de Janeiro — under water. Starting on Saturday, he’ll be spotted at AquaRio Marine Aquarium swimming with sharks during their daily fish ...

The Rio de Janeiro Low Carbon City Development Program (LCCDP) is a systems-approach to low carbon development, including a framework and set of comprehensive requirements to help the city to plan, ...

Insights in DRM highlights the successes, challenges and lessons learned from our disaster risk management interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean. This bi-monthly, multimedia publication ...

The decision was formalized Tuesday at a regional summit of the so called Rio Group in the Mexican ... “It is time to realise the unity of Latin America and the Caribbean” Mexican president ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — An Argentine tourist who ... He and his friend Rino Polato, who was found unharmed, were touring South America on motorcycle. Sá Pessoa contributed to this report from ...

Rio de Janeiro: Observatorio de Favelas. Hilgers, Tina, and Laura Macdonald. 2017. “How Violence Varies: Subnational Place, Identity, and Embeddedness” in Tina Hilgers and Laura Macdonald (eds) ...