All news on the topic: South America

Authorities in Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia collaborate in a Europol-backed operation targeting an organized criminal group accused of smuggling cocaine from South America to Europe.

THIS is the shocking moment a Bolivian turncoat general is bundled away and arrested on live television after his botched military coup.Bolivia suffer

FANS have been calling for an unprecedented ban after witnessing a horror tackle during the Copa Libertadores.In a clash between Paraguayan outfit Cer

A MYSTERIOUS sunk sub at the bottom of the South Atlantic Ocean has been confirmed as a Nazi World War II U-boat that could have helped Adolf Hitler f

A HOMEOWNER went ape after finding an intruder in her conservatory — a South American monkey.Animal rescuers were called by the “distressed” wom

THIS is the horror moment a neighbour was shot dead after poking his head over the wall as his partner begged him to take cover.Bruno Emídio da Silva

THE LEGENDARY shipwreck that sunk just off the coast of Colombia is set to be raided by a money-grabbing robot.The tragic San Jose Galleon had been fi

A BRITISH tourist has died while sitting next to his wife when flying from the Falkland Islands.The man, 59, was on a LATAM fllight heading to the sou

A THROUPLE have welcomed their first baby with one dad, two mums and a court order putting them all on the birth certificate.Jamille Ferreira, 34, bec

THE world's largest snake has been spotted lurking in the depths of the Amazon Rainforest.The beast is a whopping 440lbs, three times the weight of th

THE highest football stadium in the world is one of the scariest away days any club will face on the planet.Peru's Daniel Alcides Carrion Stadium is e

A RECORD $1 billion worth of cocaine has been seized in one of the world's biggest drug busts ever.Ecuador's military found 22 tonnes of coke at a pig

THE gang linked to the kidnapping of Colin Armstrong could be allied to a brutal Mexican cartel that forces new recruits to eat the hearts of rivals s

BRIT millionaire Colin Armstrong has been rescued by cops after being snatched in Ecuador.The businessman, 78, was kidnapped in the early hours of Sat

THE pole-dancing lover of a UK businessman kidnapped in Ecuador reappeared at his son's house wearing a bomb vest.Katherine Paola Santos was abducted

AT least 13 people have died and many more were injured after a sports centre roof collapsed during a violent storm in Argentina.A roller-skating exhi

VENEZUELA'S Putin-loving dictator has cast a dark shadow over his country for over a decade as he plunged it further into turmoil.Nicolás Maduro, 61,

AMERICAN warplanes flew over Guyana and its disputed Essequibo region today after Putin's Venezuelan dictator pal Nicolás Maduro threatened to snatch

AT least 23 people were killed in Peru after a bus plummeted down a 1,000ft ravine.The crash took place on a crumbling clifftop road in the northern P

ARGENTINA’S new president has three nicknames – The Lion, The Wig and The Madman.The first one is what Javier Milei likes to call himself, and the

COLOMBIAN military chiefs said they have laid the ground for the release of Liverpool star Luis Diaz’s dad in the next few hours.Thecountry's

COLOMBIA's ELN has a decades-long history of terror - carrying out military-style assassinations, extortion operations and kidnappings.The group confi

THE greatest polluters on the planet are China, India, Russia, the US – and Fifa.At a time when climate change is the major concern of the human rac

AGED just nine-years-old, Marli Gonzaga was forced to work for drug gangs in the slums of Brazil in a desperate bid to survive.After a childhood plagu

BOMBSHELL claims of two "alien corpses" discovered in Peru have caused quite the stir between scientists, UFO conspiracy theorists, and politicians.Ex