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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? ...

Julian, one of many guerrillas in Colombia’s Bellavista prison.

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...

Nicaragua

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...

Post-election violence in Honduras

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,...

Mercury levels rising in Brazil

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 writes ...

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.

Paraguay

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 country’s precarious democracy....

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