Delays in setting up disarmament camps for former guerillas have cast doubt on the Colombian government’s commitment to peace. But the real problem is its national history.
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Even in egalitarian Europe, female politicians must battle gender stereotypes, biased media coverage, and entrenched power.
It was popular music that enabled Chávez to link his political movement with grassroots activism.
By appointing generals to top political posts and hiking defence spending, Donald Trump is imperiling a cherished tenet of the US constitution: civilian control of the military.
South Africa’s mining industry is on an unsustainable trajectory and needs to undergo fundamental transformation that emphasises transparency, equity, and community participation.
First-round voting confirmed that populist president Rafael Correa’s AP movement is still Ecuador’s most powerful political force. But the right is gaining strength.
Donald Trump is wildly unpopular with Mexicans. But so, too, is President Enrique Peña Nieto, putting him in a tough position for this week’s high-level American official visit to Mexico.
It’s past time to dismantle the (often invisible) barriers that keep people with disabilities less healthy, employed and educated than other groups worldwide.
Joaquin Guzmán is Mexico’s worst ‘bad hombre’, but his extradition to the US won’t stop the Sinaloa Cartel.
Outsider Alejandro Guillier’s sudden rise in the polls has invigorated Chilean politics and revived the hopes of progressives across the region.
Zika is not gender neutral: women’s rights are at stake.
The plan is part of a wider trend to outsource and offshore immigration controls.
Two months after signing peace accords with the FARC guerrillas, Colombia is set to start negotiations with the country’s second-largest rebel group, the National Liberation Army.
It takes a lot to make a president with a 12% approval rating a hero. Trump may yet manage it.
Evidence increasingly shows the effectiveness of controversial efforts, like northeastern Brazil’s Attitude Programme, to feed and house at-risk drug users.
Environmental sustainability has a role in increasing national well-being.
Things keep getting worse for South America’s most populous nation and biggest economy. What is going on, Brazil?
Violent massacres at prisons in the country’s north, have disrupted a delicate balance of governance.
Fed up with corruption, violence and stagnant public services, more Brazilians are turning to hardline conservatism.
The next American administration will have to choose between following Barack Obama’s reform course or relaunching the war on drugs, nationally and internationally.
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