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16 May 2018 8 minute read

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Venezuela’s highly unusual presidential election

This is the best opportunity since 1998 that the opposition has to defeat the Bolivarian Revolution. So why are they...

2 May 2018 7 minute read

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How Lula's imprisonment is uniting workers in Brazil

Michael Fox reports on the growing mobilization of workers against austerity, privatization and repression...

29 Apr 2018 3 minute read

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Letter from Marabá: Toxic promises

Dan Baron Cohen’s debut column from the Brazilian Afro-indigenous community Cabalo Seco.

26 Apr 2018 3 minute read

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Against shithole nationalism

We're up against a long history of bigotry, ignorance and disdain, writes Mark Engler

26 Apr 2018 2 minute read

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Mixed Media: Music

Mambo Cósmico by Sonido Gallo Negro and Forest Bathing by A Hawk...

29 Apr 2018 5 minute read

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Protests continue in Nicaragua

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

30 Apr 2018 2 minute read

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Post-election violence in Honduras

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

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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

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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

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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

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Paraguay: An unequal land

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

1 Mar 2018 3 minute read

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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

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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

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A Fantastic Woman

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

1 Mar 2018 3 minute read

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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

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Young indigenous women block violence in Brazil

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

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