Fiona McCann

Three women recall Sondland made unwanted sexual contact in business settings. One says he exposed himself. All recall professional retaliation after they rejected him. Sondland denies the allegations.

A STRADIVARIUS violin wrapped in a bag filled with earth and hidden in a country house may help to solve the mystery of the murder of a retired army officer, police said yesterday. The 400-year-old

THE tradition has set Argentina apart from the rest of Latin America. Newborn babies take their father’s surname, European-style, in a continent where children are known by both their father’s and

ARGENTINA asked the world court yesterday to stop Uruguay building two giant paper mills on the banks of a river shared by the South American neighbours, claiming that the project would damage the

FAMILIES of the 30,000 believed killed during Argentina’s Dirty War led yesterday’s commemorations to mark the 30th anniversary of a coup that brought the military to power. Amid simmering resentment

THEY have endured military dictatorships and the collapse of their currency. They have even, for heaven’s sake, suffered defeat against England on the football pitch. But it really is too much when

EVERY Thursday they gather to march around the main square in Buenos Aires, wearing their trademark white headscarves. They are the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, and they have been marching for almost 30

PERU is to seek the extradition of Alberto Fujimori, its disgraced former president, from neighbouring Chile to face human rights and corruption charges after he unexpectedly ended his self-imposed

PRESIDENT BUSH put a brave face yesterday on “frank” talks with his counterpart in Brazil as a bruising visit to South America did little to advance his plans for a giant free trade area to rival the

A FREE-TRADE agreement between the US and most of Latin America aimed at side-lining Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan President and one of President Bush’s most out-spoken critics, was under discussion

ONE said her rival was unforgivably arrogant, the other invoked the spirit of Eva Perón in a bid for votes. But although both of Argentina’s First Ladies took senate seats yesterday, there was still

SHE says that she is the only child of Juan Domingo Perón, and for 12 years she has been trying to prove it. Martha Holgado is demanding that the body of the former Argentine President be exhumed so

“ARE you crying? Do you want to go home to your mother?” a sergeant barks at a trembling Argentine teenager being sent into battle. It is one of the many poignant scenes in a new Argentine film about

THE former dictator General Augusto Pinochet was formally charged yesterday with homicide and kidnapping and will be placed under house arrest, a Chilean judge said. Judge Juan Guzmán rejected a