The deadly bombing of a Jewish centre in Argentina in 1994 remains unsolved. Can long-time suspect Iran help revive a cold case?

Really, it’s nothing to sniff at.

After 50 years of killing in Colombia, and bloody hands wherever you look, this week will see formal peace talks between the government and Marxist rebels. Is it time to negotiate  — or is the state balking just as ...

Astronomers at an observatory in Chile are transforming our understanding of the universe.

They identified Australian outlaw Ned Kelly’s remains. But their main work involves unearthing the bones — and the lies — buried in war. Meet the crack team of forensic anthropologists transforming human-rights ...

Argentina’s president is clocking up hours of face time on TV, but it is all on her own terms and there are no questions allowed.

Over three decades, a Brazilian movement of landless rural workers has won an area the size of Sweden to settle almost a million families.

Brazil has suspended plans to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in nuclear energy. Can it afford to ignore its enormous nuclear potential?

São Paulo recently set a record — nearly 300 km of roadway blocked at once. No wonder some Paulistas choose to chopper in to work.

What happens when you fight a culture of violence and corruption in a game that is the national passion?

Tango, new tango, tango fusion — call it what you will, it’s back with a vengeance and the kids love it.

At the bottom of Argentina's economic heap, people are creating meaning, dignity and employment from piles of rubbish.

This week Venezuela's two presidential hopefuls — incumbent Hugo Chavez and challenger Henrique Capriles Radonski — formally registered their candidacy.

What do you do when your daughter disappears in a country where young women are frequently abducted and sold into the sex trade?

Along with beauty queens and oil, Venezuela is exporting its music education program, El Sistema.

Latin American leaders have put drug policy back on the agenda. Is it time to forget prohibition and decriminalise — or even legalise?

The “Chilean Winter” student movement, has captured a lot of headlines in its time — but where is it heading?

Nearly four decades after the coup that began Uruguay’s military dictatorship, the nation is coming to grips with its darkest chapter.

Doing business in Latin America has long been seen as a leap of faith. The Global Mail investigates the mañana ethos.

Welcome to the world of pato – a gentleman’s game with a history of violence.

Every year in Colombia, hundreds are victims of the criminal use of burundanga, a mysterious drug that allegedly robs victims of their free will.

Opposition to open-pit mining in Argentina has reached fever pitch. At stake are political, environmental and human-rights issues.

As a teen, Andres Barreto founded a music streaming site. Next up: an entrepreneur-led IT revolution in Latin America.

Millions of law-abiding Brazilians live amid criminality in shantytowns. Now, 20 of Rio de Janeiro's 1,000 favelas have been “pacified”.

Argentina became the first country in Latin America to recognise same-sex marriage 18 months ago. The sky hasn't fallen in. So what's the hang-up?

The Global Mail's Latin America correspondent loves his "schizophrenic" adopted home, Buenos Aires.