Venezuela’s Vinotinto: The New Vintage?

Venezuela was the surprise team of the recently completed Copa América.

Goal: Venezuela’s Vinotinto: The New Vintage?

Venezuela was the surprise team of the recently completed Copa America.

Peru’s president aims to spread the wealth – Fri, 29 Jul 2011 PST

LIMA, Peru – Ollanta Humala, the leftist military man who won Peru’s presidency after abandoning a radical platform, promised in his inaugural address Thursday to make his priority the one in three Peruvians still mired in poverty. The 49-year-old former army lieutenant colonel charted a plan for spreading the wealth from Peru’s mineral boom beyond Lima, where it has been concentrated among a ...

Venezuela’s Chavez celebrates 57th birthday facing cancer treatment, vowing to stay in power

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sang, danced and said he intends to stay in power for two more decades as he celebrated his 57th birthday looking ahead to months of cancer treatment. Chavez rallied a crowd of cheering supporters from the balcony of the presidential palace on Thursday, waving a large Venezuelan flag and briefly wrapping himself in it. He said he expects to ...

Dateline Argentina: Going Home

These days, Argentina and Greece — one having defaulted, the other on the edge of default — are often compared. In a trip to his rural Argentina homeland, César Chelala finds a languid land that seems frozen in time — a situation that could just as well play out in Greece.

Raoul Ruiz, a Mild-Mannered Maniac

Serious movies have as many rules and lazy conventions as summer blockbusters. But in a brilliant, prolific career, Raoul Ruiz has eluded them all.

French Report on Plane Crash Urges New Rules for Pilots

The recommendations appear to support suggestions by outside experts that fundamental errors by the pilots caused the crash of Air France flight 447 in 2009.

The Transcendent Life of Ayrton Senna, From Track to Screen

A critically acclaimed and prize-winning film about the late Brazilian Formula One driver has become the third-most-successful documentary at the box office in Britain.

Argentina appoint Sabella as new coach

Argentina on Thursday appointed Alejandro Sabella as national team coach to replace sacked Sergio Batista, the federation's general secretary Jose Luis Meiszner announced.

New Peru president: the poor are my priority

Ollanta Humala, the leftist military man who won Peru's presidency after abandoning a radical platform, promised in his inaugural address Thursday to make his priority the one in three Peruvians still mired in poverty.