Americas News

• Brazil protests: Troops to be deployed to five major cities

  Brazil's government has announced it will deploy troops to five major cities to control a wave of protests which has seen almost a quarter of a million people demand better…

• Brazil protests over new bus fare and 2014 World Cup spendings spread in Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia and Sao Paulo

  At least 200,000 people have marched through the streets of Brazil's biggest cities, as protests over rising public transport costs and the expense of staging the 2014 World…

• Florindo Flores: Peru's Sendero Luminoso leader jailed for life for terrorism

  A court in Peru has sentenced Florindo Flores, the last of the original leaders of the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) rebels to life in prison. Judges in the Peruvian…

• Hurricane Barbara lashes Mexican coast making landfall near Salina Cruz

  Hurricane Barbara has been lashing parts of Mexico's Pacific coast after making landfall near Salina Cruz in the southern state of Chiapas. Hurricane Barbara has maximum…

• Copahue volcano eruption: Chile and Argentina order evacuation of 3,000 people

  Argentina and Chile have ordered the evacuation of some 3,000 people living near the Copahue volcano in the south of their shared border. The authorities in both countries…

• Colombia and FARC rebels agree on agrarian reform

  Left-wing FARC rebels and the Colombian government have agreed on land reform, after more than six months of peace talks. "This agreement will be the start of a radical…