Latin America

The charter plane that ran out of fuel 8 miles short of its destination this week and crashed in Colombia, killing 71 people including most of a Brazilian soccer team, had bypassed a possible refueling stop, investigators say.

Air accident investigators are puzzled as to why Miguel Quiroga, the pilot of the LaMia airlines Avro RJ85 plane, didn’t emphatically tell air controllers in Medellín he had a fuel emergency until it was too late.

Venezuela was notified on Friday that it is being removed from the South American trade group known as Mercosur over its failure to comply with the pact’s bylaws.

Marcelo Odebrecht, the jailed former head of Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht SA, on Thursday agreed to sign a plea-bargain agreement in connection with Brazil’s largest corruption probe ever, according to a person close to the negotiations.

The Bolivian Civil Aviation Authority said Thursday it indefinitely suspended the operating license for LaMia airlines following the deadly crash of its charter plane in Colombia.

Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos scored a big victory in getting a revamped peace deal with guerrillas passed through congress, but faces a tough road ahead in implementing a pact many Colombians distrust.

Brazil’s Federal Police searched offices of the country’s largest bank, Banco Itaú SA, on Thursday as part of their Operation Zealots investigation into alleged tax fraud and bribery.

The country’s authorities said the charter plane that crashed outside Medellín carrying a Brazilian soccer team ran out of fuel as it tried to complete the long flight from Bolivia to Colombia.

Colombian legislators approved a peace agreement late Wednesday with the country’s communist guerrillas, ending Latin America’s longest armed conflict, which killed hundreds of thousands of people over the course of 52 years.

Wearing green-striped jerseys, soccer fans arrived in couples and teary-eyed clusters of friends at the Arena Condá, a site of recent celebration now forever transformed into haunted ground.

Brazilian lawmakers advanced legislation that would hamper the ability of prosecutors and judges to go after crooked politicians, potentially setting back the country’s fight against widespread corruption.

Brazil’s two-year economic recession continued in the third quarter, as the country’s heavily indebted companies held investment to a minimum and consumers reined in spending.

Members of a Brazilian soccer team traveling to the finals of the Copa Sudamericana were among at least 70 people killed Monday night when their airplane crashed on approach to Colombia’s Medellín international airport.

The election of Jovenel Moïse as Haiti’s next president sparked tumultuous demonstrations in Port-au-Prince, as losing candidates in the runoff election questioned the integrity of the voting process.

Thousands of demonstrators on Tuesday evening staged one of the strongest protests against Brazilian President Michel Temer and his fiscal-austerity agenda.

Residents of Chapecó, Brazil, struggle with news that a plane crash has decimated their soccer team, Chapecoense, a scrappy bunch of no-names who were preparing for the biggest match of their lives.

A reversal of President Barack Obama’s outreach to Cuba, as threatened by President-elect Donald Trump this week, would leave a bigger opening off the U.S. coast for another great military power: China.

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has proposed a change in the recent overhaul of the judicial system to put the appointment of the country’s first independent prosecutor in the hands of the Senate.