A trial that opened Tuesday in Buenos Aires is the first to consider the totality of crimes carried out under Operation Condor, a coordinated campaign by various US-backed Latin American dictatorships in the 1970s and 1980s to hunt down, torture and murder tens of thousands of opponents of those regimes. Condor was prosecuted in the name of a crusade against “terrorism.” Its methods in many ways prefigured the systematic and continuing crimes carried out by the US government decades Read more [...]

SAO PAULO (AP) -- Palmeiras goalkeeper Fernando Prass was injured when team fans frustrated by a defeat in the Copa Libertadores confronted players at an airport in Argentina on Thursday. Prass had to be treated for a cut in his head, but no one was seriously hurt in the altercation before the team's return to Brazil, according to Brazilian media with the team. The supporters, wearing jerseys from the team's biggest fan group, faced the players while they were waiting to board their flight back to Read more [...]

Newcastle United captain Fabricio Coloccini could face up to seven weeks on the sidelines after breaking two bones in his back. The center back suffered the injury while acrobatically clearing the ball during Newcastle's 4-2 win over Southampton at St James' Park on Feb. 24 and has not featured for the club since. Newcastle manager Alan Pardew has confirmed the 31-year-old Coloccini has returned to Argentina to be assessed by the national side’s medical team, and he could be out until May. "Colo Read more [...]