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29 Apr 2018 5 minute read

Social security reforms have triggered an unprecedented wave of anger against the government. Dánae Vílchez...

30 Apr 2018 2 minute read

The Hondurans who took to the streets following the election were met by a hailstorm of teargas and sometimes live gunfire,...

31 Mar 2018 1 minute read

Mercury levels rising in Brazil

A large-scale dam in the Amazon is leading to dangerously high levels of mercury in indigenous communities...

8 Apr 2018 3 minute read

Why Lula is a political prisoner, not a criminal

Brazil’s former president is now serving a long jail sentence. Mariana T Noviello reports.

Opposition candidate Fabricio Alvarado from the National Restoration Party. Photo: Gustavo Fuchs

4 Apr 2018 9 minute read

Evangelical uprising: a new political opposition in Costa Rica

Right-wing Fabricio Alvarado may have lost, but his party’s rise remains worrying, writes Gustavo Fuchs.

26 Mar 2018 3 minute read

Paraguay: An unequal land

Paraguay’s land activists are under attack. Toby Hill profiles the...

1 Mar 2018 3 minute read

Meet Anabela Carlón Flores

Nick Dowson speaks with the indigenous lawyer and campaigner fighting a gas pipeline in Mexico.

19 Mar 2018 4 minute read

They’ve killed Marielle Franco – for doing good

She was a young, black, city councillor – and a beacon of hope in her Rio favela and for Brazil. Vanessa Baird...

1 Mar 2018 2 minute read

A Fantastic Woman

‘Transcendent and deeply moving from the first to the last’: our March film reviews.

1 Mar 2018 3 minute read

Farewell to the big village

Amy Booth bids farewell to Cochabamba and shares what the ‘big village’ has revealed to her.

1 Mar 2018 2 minute read

Young indigenous women block violence in Brazil

Young people in Brazil reconnect with their African roots, by Amy Hall.

22 Feb 2018 3 minute read

Why make women suffer twice?

Don’t cut Oxfam’s support – we need it to root out abuse, says Colombian feminist Gloria Sanchez.

21 Feb 2018 1 minute read

Latin American governments should serve the people

Human rights activist Adolfo Pérez Esquivel highlights the failure of democracy in Argentina, Brazil and across the region...

9 Feb 2018 7 minute read

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Is Costa Rica on the path to evangelical theocracy?

Costa Ricans have declared far-right candidate Fabricio Alvarado winner of the first round, Gustavo Fuchs...

18 Jan 2018 3 minute read

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UK pushing dodgy Public-Private Partnerships

Carillion highlights how disastrous these can be – this policy must stop, argues Jenny Nelson.

Former president Lula on his Caravan of Hope tour around Brazil, ahead of this year’s elections.

4 Jan 2018 7 minute read

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Brazil’s rich weaponize law to stop Lula campaign

‘Impossible’ for Lula to get fair trial, say lawyers. Vanessa Baird reports.

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