Argentine customs found 30kg of cocaine hidden in a way they had never seen before, absorbed in of rice headed for Europe via Africa. It was detected by dogs.

The Paraguayan government agreed to meet former workers who have nailed themselves to wooden crosses over a wage dispute.

A surprise attack by a school of carnivorous fish has injured 70 people bathing in an Argentinian river, including seven children who lost parts of their fingers or toes.

TRACING the footsteps of a living legend is dicey business. ‘He was born here’, ‘he grew up there’, ‘he first kicked a ball over there’... all claims made by Rosarinos about their most famous son, Lionel Messi.

Richard Collins travels to South America in search of an anaconda.