If the United States withdraws from or significantly alters NAFTA, Mexico has more options than it thinks — and potentially less to lose than its northern neighbour.
Lenin Moreno celebrates after Ecuador’s election board said he won the country’s presidential election.
Mariana Bazo/Reuters
It is vital for people to demand transparency, but when popular outrage is manipulated for political purposes, democracy suffers.
Saint-Laurent du Maroni Hospital. Some of the building’s structures go back to the time when French Guiana was mainly known for its prisons.
Dennis Lamaison
French Guineans are up in arms about the territory’s overcrowded hospitals. Why is no one talking about how racism and xenophobia also affect access to health care?
‘My body does not need your opinion’.
Juan Carlos Ulate/Reuters
The case of a 12-year-old Costa Rican girl, who was raped by her father and denied an abortion, is dividing a nation that prides itself on its human rights record.
The Paraguayan capital briefly became a battleground between police, protesters and politicians.
Jorge Adorno/Reuters
One protester was killed and several senators bloodied as Paraguayans rebelled against what they consider an unconstitutional attempt to extend President Horacio Cartes’ term.
Frequent police brutality has undermined the trust of residents of Rio de Janeiro’s Maré favela in law enforcement.
Ricardo Moraes/Reuters
Residents of the Maré neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro are eight times more likely to be killed by police than other Brazilians. Most victims are young and black.
A Salvadoran family who fled to the U.S. when armed men killed the father.
AP Photo/LM Otero
Despite Trump’s rhetoric, Mexicans are no longer crossing the border in massive numbers. Data show a new group of migrants is arriving, and for very different reasons.
Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos with a high-level UN delegation, confirming the FARC disarmament process.
Jaime Saldarriaga/Reuters
Colombia’s FARC guerrillas have officially laid down their weapons. How will these former fighters fare in the group’s transition from Marxist rebellion to political party?
Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa (L) and Presidential candidate Lenin Moreno greet supporters.
REUTERS/Mariana Bazo
Recent elections in Latin America have suggested a retreat from left-wing politics and populist leaders. But results from Ecuador’s 2017 presidential election suggest otherwise.
All papacies are political, and Pope Francis’s is no exception.
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The Pope hasn’t actually opened the door for married priests. But in rethinking celibacy, he has shown his mastery of the art of containing people without actually making big changes to the Church.
Workers wash freshly harvested bananas on a banana plantation near Parrita, Costa Rica.
AP Photo/Kent Gilbert
While Costa Ricans pride their country for being an oasis of stability in Latin America, the nation has struggled with restrictive laws and social attitudes toward immigrants from Nicaragua.
A woman cries during the funeral of a victim of a fire at a children’s shelter in Guatemala.
REUTERS/Saul Martinez
Young people from Central America continue to cross the U.S. border. Can programs funded by humanitarian assistance targeting root causes of migration help?
Who will get to go to the Palacio de los López?
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Paraguay remains divided over whether to allow former presidents to run for reelection, and time is running out to decide who can – and cannot – declare their candidacy for the 2018 election.
A poignant protest of an avoidable tragedy.
Oswaldo Rivas/Reuters
When leaders of weak democracies use social media to connect with their constituents, people feel heard. But Twitter responses won’t give citizens what they need.
There’s a reason he grows this crop.
Jaime Saldarriaga/Reuters
Brazilian state governments increasingly use the military for services they should provide themselves.
The wife of a jailed opposition leader, during a rally to mark the third anniversary of his arrest in Caracas, Venezuela.
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Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Director of Studies at the Changing Character of War Centre, and Senior Research Fellow, Dept. of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford