On this evening's From The South, we take you to Brazil, where a regional court, which had sentenced former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to 12 years in prison for alleged corruption, rejected the appeal request filed by his defense team, leaving him one step away from prison. Then we bring you to Peru where the Office of the Prosecutor raided properties belonging to former President Kuczynski, where authorities are investigating alleged money laundering related to links with Odebrecht. As well, we take you to Mexico where one of the four disappeared students from Jalisco has been found dead. These and more headlines now.