EPA/Nawras Aamer
Islamic State lost ground, Colombia got a chance at lasting peace, and the Pope sounded a liberated note on homosexuality.
Venezuela is not a progressive paradise.
EPA/Miguel Gutierrez
The establishment media wants it one way, and the populist left another. Why is there so little straight reporting on Latin America?
Daniel Streicker/Julio Benavides
They kill thousands of animals and people every year by spreading rabies. New research findings could solve the problem.
Feeling good: Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.
EPA/Agencia Andina
The scion of a despotic leader has been vanquished – but her party can still call the shots.
Graffiti at a bus stop in Sao Paulo, Brazil reads “Out Temer.”
REUTERS/Nacho Doce
Brazil is experiencing economic, political, social and moral crises that challenge its stability.
Caught out: Romero Jucá.
EPA/Fernando Bizerra Jr.
Supporters of Brazil’s suspended president have argued that the push to impeach her was a plot – and it turns out they weren’t far off.
Dilma Rousseff Carnaval masks on a factory assembly line near Rio.
REUTERS/Sergio Moraes
Brazil has a powerful and dominant national identity, which could be a casualty of the current political crisis. The author of an upcoming book on the subject considers the harm that’s been done.
Colombians show their support for the Victims’ Law.
EPA/Eduardo Munoz
Colombia is pursuing a bold programme to give people back land seized by paramilitaries. But its beneficiaries don’t feel safe.
Protestors rally against interim Brazilian President Michel Temer.
REUTERS/Nacho Doce
A BU professor walks through the turmoil of Brazil’s political past to explain why there’s more at stake than you might think.
Lest we forget: Omar Torrijos’s mausoleum.
Hector Alcibiades via Wikimedia Commons
The junta that governed Panama from 1968 to 1989 was hardly Latin America’s deadliest. But that doesn’t mean it was benign.
José Martí’s teachings are found in all Cuban classrooms – and on Havana’s walls.
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A great deal of thinking about Cuba’s education system originated from one man. So who was José Martí, and what can his ideas about values education teach other countries?
Happier times: Dilma Rousseff and Michael Temer at her second inauguration.
EPA/Sebastiao Moreira
As an unpopular vice-president takes the helm, Brazilian politics is mired in distrust, division and corruption.
“Et tu, Temer”: Dilma Rousseff.
EPA/Antonio Lacerda
Conspiracy, betrayal and prophecies of doom have all played their part in Dilma Rousseff’s looming downfall.
A matter of time?
EPA/Sebastiao Moreira
Brazilians are disgusted with all their politicians. Can anyone take control?
Keiko Fujimori, enjoying it while she can.
EPA/Cesar von Bancels
Peru’s democracy has been relatively stable for most of the 21st century, but its elections are famously lurid and chaotic.
At Parque de la Memoria, Obama and Macri pay tribute to victims of the dictatorship.
EPA/David Fernandez
Argentina and the US have never had the cosiest of relationships. Could opening up old secrets help bring them together?
EPA/Fernando Bizerra Jr.
The administration of Dilma Rousseff is caught in a rapidly accelerating cycle of discontent.
Could fear of Zika loosen Latin America’s strict abortion laws?
Jorge Cabrera/Reuters
Better access to birth control and safe, legal abortions in Latin America could save lives. But carving out Zika-related exceptions in existing restrictions might not go far enough to achieve this.
Big trouble: Dilma Rousseff and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
EPA/Sebastiao Moreira
A massive corruption scandal is engulfing Brazil’s political establishment – but reports of the country’s imminent collapse are greatly exaggerated.
There must be another way.
Reuters/Enrique Marcarian
With the theatrics of the Kirchner years finally over, Argentina and the Falklands can start to defrost their relationship.