Brazilian Pres. Lula da Silva signed a law granting more than a million people land titles in the Amazon.
A U.N. investigator criticized Colombia on Thursday for not doing enough to punish soldiers who...
A French nuclear submarine has begun searching for the flight recorders of an Air France airliner.
A new measure approved by the Brazilian Senate on June 4 could affect the future of the Amazon.
Peru's Congress voted to temporarily suspend land laws that ignited violent clashes between protesters and police.
Indigenous protesters and Peru's army refused to back down after two battles in the Amazon jungle killed some 50 people.
Up to 33 people died and 100 were wounded as Amazon tribes clashed with Peruvian police on Friday.
Brazilian search crews fished the first debris from a crashed Air France flight out of choppy Atlantic waters.
Strong approval ratings are fueling President Hugo Chavez's increasingly radical push to build socialism.
Search crews flying over the Atlantic found debris from a crashed Air France jet spread over more than 90 km of ocean.