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Brazil's Lula 'to become minister'

Former Brazilian president Lula

Former Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is expected to accept a key ministerial role in President Dilma Rousseff's government, media reports say.

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Venezuela gold miners' bodies located

Venezuela's attorney general says search teams have retrieved the bodies of 14 of at least 21 gold miners allegedly killed by a gang earlier this month.

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Colombia whistleblower flees kidnapping

A Colombian police captain who is a key witness in a scandal over an alleged male prostitution ring in the police escapes from his kidnappers.

Venezuela opposition launches protests

Brazil artist blindfolds Rio statues

Guatemala investigates lake clean-up

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Curse of oil

Indigenous community suffers after spill

Wyre Davies South America correspondent
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Getting inked in Cuba

Tattoos take off among the people of Havana

Mexico ransom

Will Maria be able to get her husband and daughters freed?

  • 10 March 2016

'Uncertain future'

Venezuela's bilateral healthcare programmes with Cuba are under pressure

Juggling act

Can Rio 2016 handle Brazil's economic woes?

  • 11 March 2016
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Love and hate

Brazilians divided on ex-leader Lula

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