Pope Leo XIV’s Argentina Visit Schedule Is Set as Government Weighs Days Off
Pope Leo in Argentina: the visit runs from 8 to 11 November 2026, with three big masses. The government is...
September 21, 2026Section
Society & Culture
Chile Online Gambling Crackdown Widens as Regulator Orders 37 More Sites Blocked
Chile online gambling sites face a new block: Subtel gave six internet providers 48 hours to cut off 37 domains...
September 21, 2026
Kaspersky Finds 480 Fake Toll Payment Sites Targeting Drivers in Brazil
A free flow toll scam in Brazil uses 480 fake payment sites to take Pix transfers from drivers. How to...
September 21, 2026
El Niño Peru Children Risk: UNICEF Counts 3 Million Exposed
UNICEF estimates 3,006,028 children in Peru live in high or very high El Niño risk zones, 31% of under-18s, with...
September 19, 2026
Vale do Ribeira Floods: the Army Is in Paraná and the Deaths Are in São Paulo
Nearly 12,000 homes lost power and a governor called in army engineers. The eight confirmed deaths happened 200 kilometres away,...
September 14, 2026
The Casa Argentina in Paris Loses Its Director, and a Memorial Plaque Is Still Missing
A student residence in Paris became a proxy fight over how Argentina remembers its dictatorship. A thousand people signed a...
September 14, 2026
Rio de Janeiro’s Sugarloaf Cable Car Is Named After a Tram That Was Named After a Bond
The Sugarloaf bondinho has run since 1912. Its name traces through Rio’s street trams to prepaid tickets nicknamed after government...
September 12, 2026
Rio de Janeiro’s Corcovado Railway Opened 47 Years Before the Christ the Redeemer Statue
The Corcovado rack railway opened in 1884, hauled Christ the Redeemer up the mountain from 1926, and still runs on...
September 12, 2026
Rio’s Santa Teresa Tram Reopens a Branch Closed for Twenty Years
The Santa Teresa bonde reopened its Silvestre branch on 11 June 2026, twenty years after it closed and fifteen after...
September 12, 2026