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3 Jul 2018 3 minute read

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Costa Rica: Country Profile

Gustavo Fuchs takes a look at this country, nicknamed the ‘Central American Switzerland’.

27 Jun 2018 3 minute read

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Letter from Marabá: Democracy in prison

Dan Baron Cohen writes from Cabelo Seco, where news of former president Lula’s sentencing has stirred waves...

Protesters carry a banner: ‘Humanity doesn’t require a green card’

26 Jun 2018 4 minute read

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The new frontier spirit

The inhumanity of child separation was no accident. Rachel Curtis reports from El Paso.

25 Jun 2018 6 minute read

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Occupying against the patriarchy

Chilean feminists have taken over university buildings until inequality is tackled. Giulia Dessi reports....

21 Jun 2018 11 minute read

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Could Mexico’s election change everything?

The Latin American nation goes to the polls 1 July to elect a new president. Tamara Pearson reports.

Three former guerrillas watch the election results from La Tienda, the social space in the Icononzo reintegration zone.

19 Jun 2018 5 minute read

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FARC fears after rightwing Duque elected

Kimberley Brown speaks to former guerillas after president who vowed to rip up peace deal elected.

11 Jun 2018 5 minute read

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Colombia’s election could shred peace deal

Kimberley Brown interviews former presidential candidate Piedad Cordoba, who explains the high stakes.

7 Jun 2018 6 minute read

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Argentina’s women fight for safe, free and legal abortion

The Ni Una Menos movement are making history. Will they succeed in this Wednesday’s vote on 13 June? ...

31 May 2018 5 minute read

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Colombia’s political prisoners’ futures hang on electoral outcome

Guerrillas talk about the peace process. Alicia Prager reports.

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,...

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