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Playground for the rich: Brazil now has 20 more billionaires than last year, up from 45 to 65. Credit: Alobos Life/Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

29 Jun 2021 3 minute read

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Breaking records – for the rich and the hungry

Leonardo Sakamoto on hideous wealth and – and poverty.

Searching for sustenance: In Para State, a man moves his furniture in a cart after struggling to make rent following food price inflation beginning in 2013. Credit Lalo de Almeida/Folhapress/Panos

16 Jun 2021 3 minute read

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The pandemic has worsened Brazil’s hunger crisis

A recent study suggests that as many as six in ten Brazilians are struggling to put food on the table, reports ...

Peru's presidential candidate Pedro Castillo gestures to supporters, in Tacabamba, Peru June 6, 2021. REUTERS/Alessandro Cinque

10 Jun 2021 4 minute read

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Peru’s leftist President-elect is already under attack

Pedro Castillo may have won the election but his leadership is not guaranteed yet. John...

Credit: Lula Marques/Agência PT/Partido dos Trabalhadores/Flickr

13 Apr 2021 3 minute read

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Lula is back in the game

After a court annulled all the sentences against him, Brazil’s ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is back in the running...

A 'Women United Against Bolsonaro' solidarity demonstration in London, 2018. Credit: Esdras Beleza/Flickr

11 Feb 2021 3 minute read

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View from Brazil

While Argentina wins abortion rights, in Brazil even a pregnant 10-year-old is threatened and coerced to give birth, writes...

The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo during their weekly demonstration to establish the fate of their disappeared children and grandchildren during the 1976-83 dictatorship. Credit: Julio Etchart/Majority World.

3 Feb 2021 4 minute read

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Country Profile: Argentina

Massive foreign debts and an impoverished population are intensifying age-old conflicts over natural resources in this...

ILYA sets ‘Apolitical Intellectuals’ to a modern tune, as he remembers the life of the Guatemalan revolutionary poet.

22 Jan 2021 1 minute read

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Cartoon history: Otto René Castillo

ILYA sets ‘Apolitical Intellectuals’ to a modern tune, as he remembers the life of the Guatemalan...

22 Dec 2020 9 minute read

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‘You’ve done nothing!’

Stephanie Boyd reports from the Peruvian Amazon on the fight to get adequate healthcare that respects...

9 Dec 2020 3 minute read

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Introducing...Luis Arce Catacora

After months of unconstitutional rule since Jeanine Áñez’s military-backed coup, Richard Swift gives a...

17 Nov 2020 3 minute read

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With Trump’s defeat, Bolsonaro loses his imaginary friend

Bolsonaro’s desperate pledges to Trumpism have not paid off, argues Leonardo Sakamoto.

President of Peru Martín Vizcarra, prior to swearing in his cabinet in 2018. WikiCommons

12 Nov 2020 4 minute read

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A ‘coup’ in Peru

John Crabtree reports on the shock ousting of ‘anti-corruption’ president Martín Vizcarra.

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9 Nov 2020 2 minute read

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Introducing...Irfaan ali

Richard Swift on Latin America’s first Muslim head of state.

Credit: Daniel Espinosa Guzman

21 Oct 2020 4 minute read

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Chile’s social uprising: One year on

Carole Concha Bell speaks to defiant protesters who have been met with violence and intimidation ahead of...

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12 Oct 2020 3 minute read

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Let the light in

Carole Concha Bell on how projectionists have been censored for criticizing the Chilean government’s...

QAnon has a lot to learn from Brazil, writes Leonardo Sakamoto.

8 Oct 2020 3 minute read

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In Brazil, conspiracies are for professionals

QAnon has a lot to learn from Brazil, writes Leonardo Sakamoto.

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27 Aug 2020 3 minute read

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Hall of infamy: Iván Duque Márquez

Colombian technocrat Iván Duque Márquez is not exactly a fan of peace.

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