Uruguay will vote this week on a "dignified death" bill that would legalize active euthanasia for adults with incurable diseases.

Shamans in Peru have staged a traditional ritual in Lima to urge peace with Colombia amid a growing row over the ownership of Santa Rosa Island in the Amazon. View on euronews ...

A group of Shamans from Peru on Monday performed a ritual to plead for good relations between Colombia and Peru, after a diplomatic spat over the ownership of a recently surfaced island in the Amazon.

Colombian Sen. Miguel Uribe Turbay died Monday morning, Aug. 11, just over two months after being shot by a hitman, his wife, ...

Trump federalizes Washington, D.C., police department and deploys National Guard, claiming the capital's murder rate exceeds ...

Digitalization has accelerated a move toward real-time payments for Latin American banks, along with a host of new capabilities.

Evangelical Christianity is spreading fast across the Amazon. The spiritual battle is reshaping the world’s biggest rainforest ...

The trafficking of animals from the Amazon is a growing global problem. For example, 95% of mammals smuggled from the ...

Both nations claim Santa Rosa de Yavarí, a tiny island of just 3,000 people that sits in the Amazon River, more than a ...

Tougher regulatory framework have quickly undermined hopes that Colombia's Caribbean coast could be an energy hub for the ...

Hopes among foreign energy companies that Colombia's coast could serve as a key source of oil and gas for the future are ...

Procedural rules for the plastics treaty negotiations say that, for substantive issues, delegates “ shall make every effort ” ...