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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.

9 Nov 2020 2 minute read

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Introducing...Irfaan ali

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

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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.

A trans sex worker takes to the streets of Tegucigalpa Credit: Frauke Decoodt

25 Aug 2020 7 minute read

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On the pink corridor

How trans women in Honduras are helping their imprisoned sisters. Frauke Decoodt reports from Tegucigalpa...

A man takes rest on the roadside in a Carapicuiba City favela. Image by Luiz Gonzaga De Souza/Pixabay

19 Aug 2020 3 minute read

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In times of Covid-19, black people die twice in Brazil

Leonardo Sakamoto reflects on the police killing of João Pedro Matos Pinto, a 14-year-old black boy, and...

With the climate emergency, this landmark case has taken on added urgency: the absolute imperative being now that carbon and water sequestering forests, and the biodiversity that they contain, are protected and kept intact.

2 Aug 2020 4 minute read

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Battle of the heavyweights

Jan Goodey reports on the legal bid to save the Amazon fringe that could set a worldwide precedent for...

Soldiers patrol Santiago, Chile. (February, 2020) Credit: Daniel Guzman Espinoza

26 Jul 2020 5 minute read

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Criminalizing hunger

In Chile, state security forces are increasingly detaining, beating and harassing the volunteers of community-led soup...

Leasing a flying ICU to go between Belém and Brasília costs over $6,794 – or 63 months’ wages of a person within the poor 50 per cent.

25 Jun 2020 2 minute read

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First class patients

In Brazil, the rich, who infected the poor, are now buying ICU flights for themselves.

15 Jun 2020 9 minute read

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Two Demons: Covid-19 and abuse

Stephanie Boyd on the making of a groundbreaking indigenous film about the pandemic in Peru’s Amazon.

Olodum performers hit the streets. Credit: Banda Olodum

2 Jun 2020 4 minute read

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‘Drums have the power to make people listen’

Lazinho and Lucas di Fiori of Brazil's famous Banda Olodum talk to Alessio Perrone about...

Women march during the National Black Consciousness Day in Sao Paulo, Brazil November 20, 2019. REUTERS/Nacho Doce

28 May 2020 3 minute read

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Black women in the vanguard

In Brazil, misogynoir – misogyny directed at black women – has been used to fire up President Jair Bolsonaro’s machismo base...

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