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Brazilian newspapers publish a video in which prisoners at a jail in Maranhao State are decapitated by rival gang members         ...

Experts are warning of a possible public health and environmental crisis after it was revealed that rivers in Latin America are some of the most polluted in the world         ...

President Nicolas Maduro calls a meeting of mayors and governors to draw an emergency anti-crime plan after the couple were murdered in front of their five-year-old daughter         ...

Hundreds took to the streets of Caracas to demand the government protect its citizens from callous killers, following the murder of a former Miss Venezuela and her British ex-husband         ...

Inri Cristo, the man who thinks he is Jesus reincarnated.         ...

Couple shot dead trying to escape from robbers after breaking down on Venezuela motorway         ...

Police are interrogating five men over the murder of former Miss Venezuela Monica Spear and her British ex-husband Thomas Henry Berry         ...

As the northern hemisphere shivers, Chile's capital city Santiago has been cloaked in smoke by forest fires - exacerbated by soaring temperatures - sweeping the southern and central regions of the country         ...

Former beauty queen turned soap opera star Monica Spear was found shot to death with her British husband in their car on a roadside in Venezuela, local media report         ...

In disturbing scenes, members of a local vigilante group in Peru storm a nightclub, whipping and shoving dozens of female employees         ...

Argentina appoints Secretary for Matters Relating to the Malvinas in latest bid to pressure Britain over the Falkland Islands         ...

One year on from her brother Vittorio Missoni's disappearance, Angela explains how the Missoni family have coped during the crisis and her plans for the future of the Italian fashion house         ...

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s Dakar Rally, which for the first time crosses Bolivia...

Security forces beef up presence in city's largest shanty town to try and quell violence undermining pacification efforts ahead of 2014 tournament         ...

Security forces enter Tenharim indigenous community in Amazon after invasion by local townspeople forces tribe members to flee         ...

More than 60 people injured in a mass piranha attack in an Argentine river on Christmas Day         ...

Footage captures the moment a mudslide came down the side of a hill in Brazil sending residents fleeing for safety         ...

David Cameron uses Christmas message pledging to defend Falkland Islands         ...

Dramatic footage shows the moment a house in a favela in Rio de Janeiro collapses following a landslide         ...