Mexico City, July 7, (RHC), – Authorities in Mexico say the country has been forced to increase its gasoline imports by an “unprecedented” level as a result of shortages caused by a rise in fuel thefts.... More


Caracas, July 7, (RHC), – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday said he was calling in the country's ambassador in neighboring Guyana for consultations amid an escalating row over oil exploration in a disputed offshore territory.... More


Quito, July 07 (teleSUR-RHC) Unity and social harmony are what many people camping outside Quito's Bicentenario Park are hoping for this papal visit. ... More


Rio de Janeiro, July 7, (RHC), – President Dilma Rousseff presented the Olympic torch for the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro on Friday and the route it will follow around the continent-sized South American country.... More


Caracas, July 07 (teleSUR-RHC) Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro denounced campaigns aimed at inciting conflict in the country by using its recent dispute with Guyana, saying that Venezuela wishes to resolve the conflict peacefully, despite provocations. ... More


Montevideo, July 7, (RHC), – Venezuela will allow Uruguay to pay off a $400 million energy debt at a 35 percent discount, Uruguay said on Monday.... More


RIO DE JANEIRO, July 6 (Xinhua) -- New leaked information has confirmed that Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff and even her cabinet members had been spied on by the U.S. government, which drew extensive attention of the Brazilian media over the weekend.... More


Quito, July 07 (teleSUR-RHC) Ecuador’s Defense Minister Fernando Cordero and the chief of the Armed Forces Joint Command Luis Garzon have rejected rumors that the military has withdrawn its support from President Rafael Correa. ... More


Quito, July 07 (teleSUR-RHC) Pope Francis stressed the importance of the family, and especially the need to understand society as a “shared family”, during a mass in Ecuador on Monday in the first service of his tour of South America.... More


Brasilia, July 07 (teleSUR-RHC) Aecio Neves was re-elected leader of Brazil’s main opposition party, PSDB, on Sunday. ... More


Tegucigalpa, July 7 (PL-RHC) Honduran security organizations destroyed 72 clandestine airstrips used by drug traffickers, said chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Fredy Santiago Diaz.... More


Athens, July 6, (RHC), – Thousands of joyful Greeks poured into the capital’s central square as the scale of the rejection to a bailout deal which would have imposed more austerity measures became evident.... More


Sports News Roundup July 06

Cuba's First Vice-President Miguel Diaz-Canel saw off the first group of athletes that will compete in the Pan-American Games to be held in the Canadian city of Toronto, July 10th-26th.... More


Mexico City, July 06 (teleSUR-RHC) Hundreds of dissident teachers took to the streets in various cities of Mexico on Saturday, protesting President Enrique Peña Nieto’s education reforms. ... More


Athens, July 6, (RHC), – Greece’s outspoken finance minister has resigned. Yanis Varoufakis announced he will step down just one day after Greeks voted “no” to austerity bailout measures. ... More


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