SANTIAGO, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Chilean President Sebastian Pinera unveiled an $82.1 billion draft budget for 2022 on Thursday that he said would begin to tame a ballooning deficit in the world's t ...

BOGOTA, Sept 23 (Reuters) - A FARC dissident commander has taken responsibility for a June bomb attack on a military base in the northeastern Colombian city of Cucuta, as well as the recent shooting o ...

BRASILIA, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Legislation aimed at reducing the size of the Brazilian state and trimming the growth of public payrolls cleared the committee stage in the lower chamber of Congress on T ...

BRASILIA, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Brazilian state-run power company Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras SA (ELET6.SA), Latin America's largest utility, said on Thursday that its Eletronorte unit received ...

LIMA, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Peruvian authorities on Thursday said they had decided to cremate the body of Abimael Guzman, the founder of the Shining Path rebel group that killed tens of thousands of peo ...

BRASILIA, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Brazil has had 24,611 new cases of the novel coronavirus reported in the past 24 hours, and 648 deaths from COVID-19, the health ministry said on Thursday.The South Ameri ...