Articles
Frogs of South America Can't Take the Heat
There aren't a whole lot of global warming skeptics left, but those who still need some convincing should take a look at the frogs of Central and South America...
FOREIGN TRADE: Capital for South America
Six months ago, at the Inter-American Investment Conference in New Orleans, Shipping Tycoon Rudolf Hecht suggested the formation of a U.S.-sponsored company to...
SOUTH AMERICA: Uruguay's Choice
In one of the most important elections in their country's history, 860,000 Uruguayans went to the polls this week to decide between democracy and...
Foreign News: Suffering South America
Having twiddled thumbs since President Roosevelt's plans for booming Soviet-U. S. trade went awry (TIME, Feb. n et seq.), the U. S. Embassy staff in Moscow...
AERONAUTICS: In South America
Up from the south came word, last week, of further solidification of Pan American Airways' position as leader of South American air transport routes. Its...
Photo Essays

A Fierce and Tender Eye: Gordon Parks on Poverty’s Dire Toll
In June 1961, LIFE magazine published a story that, at the time, was astonishing not only for its unflinching coverage of abject poverty, but for the at-once...

Cultivating South America's Favorite Drink
An American company finds success cultivating South America's popular caffeinated drink


