Brumadinho dam collapse: Hope fades for hundreds missing in Brazil

At least 34 people are confirmed dead as rescue teams try to locate hundreds buried beneath sludge.

from BBC News - Latin America & Caribbean https://bbc.in/2UhrcuA

Venezuela crisis: Maduro given ultimatum by European leaders

A number of EU countries say they will recognise Venezuela's opposition if elections are not called.

from BBC News - Latin America & Caribbean https://bbc.in/2Wtl5FE

Emiliano Sala: £220,000 raised for private search

Footballers and the Argentine president were among those supporting calls for rescuers to keep looking.

from BBC News - Latin America & Caribbean https://bbc.in/2sMv5vN

Brazil dam collapse: Rescuers search for hundreds buried under mud slide

Firefighters search for the missing after a collapsed dam causes a huge mudslide at a mine complex.

from BBC News - Latin America & Caribbean https://bbc.in/2Ujvlye

Venezuela: All you need to know about the crisis in seven charts

Discontent fuelled by hyperinflation, power cuts and food and medicine shortages have led to a political crisis in Venezuela. What's going on?

from BBC News - Latin America & Caribbean https://bbc.in/2CPhTer

Ciudad Juarez: Murder, drugs and football on the Mexican border

A wave of unprecedented violence, a Mexican city badly damaged by warring gangs, and the football fans voicing a community's pain.

from BBC News - Latin America & Caribbean https://bbc.in/2HE2QtQ

looking glass: Word of the day for January 27, 2019

looking glass , n :
A piece of glass with a reflective surface that one may look into to see an image of oneself; a mirror. A way into a bizarre world. English writer and mathematician Lewis Carroll, the author of the children’s novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871), was born on this day in 1832.