Bolivia’s rural Chaparé region has pushed back against neoliberal policies using democratic practice.
Danilo Balderrama/Reuters
There’s truth in the analysis that the rise of right-wing populism is a response to the failures of globalisation. But is it the only response?
Peace is for everyone – and so is justice.
EPA/Leonardo Munoz
Colombia’s deal with the FARC means third parties implicated in international crimes could at last face justice.
Donald Trump is often described as a populist leader.
Reuters/Carlo Allegri
November 2, 2016
John Keane , University of Sydney ; Christine Milne , University of Sydney ; Dr Adele Webb , University of Sydney ; Henrik Bang , University of Canberra ; James Loxton , University of Sydney ; Jan-Werner Muller , Princeton University ; Laurence Whitehead , University of Oxford ; Mark Chou , Australian Catholic University ; Nick Rowley , University of Sydney , and Stephen Coleman , University of Leeds
In this special The Conversation project, scholars and commentators from around the world examine the rise of populism, and its implications, now and into the future.
Albert Eckhout
An adventurer who gave us the first account by an Englishman of early colonial Brazil.
It’s not all bad.
EPA/Mauricio Duenas Castaneda
The voters may have said no to the deal struck with the FARC, but Juan Manuel Santos and his fellow negotiators intend to keep going.
Passions run high in Buenos Aires.
EPA/Cezaro de Luca
The decades-old dispute in the South Atlantic is the third rail of Argentine politics – and Mauricio Macri has blithely tripped over it.
Mistakes happen: a polling station in Cali, Colombia.
EPA/Christian Escobar Mora
A look through the ballot papers shows the declared result in Colombia’s crucial vote is far from definitive.
Going about their business.
EPA/Christian Escobar Mora
Given their chance to ratify a deal to end a 60-year war, less than 40% of Colombians voted – and they threw it out.
A new leaf.
EPA/Jorge Abrego
Bolivia is the first cocaine-producing country to take a harm reduction approach to tackling the drug trade.
Here’s hoping: “Yes” campaigners in Bogotá.
EPA/Mauricio Duenas Castaneda
Colombia has a chance to get behind a peace agreement that its people have waited decades to see.
Álvaro Uribe isn’t leaving anything to chance.
EPA/Mauricio Duenas Castaneda
After 52 years fighting the FARC, Colombia is about to vote on a comprehensive peace deal. But not everyone wants in.
Where is the love?
EPA/Narendra Shrestha
The US is held to a different standard than other countries – but it mostly has itself to blame.
Dilma Rousseff was last week ousted as Brazil’s president.
Reuters/Ueslei Marcelino
The forced end of Dilma Rousseff’s presidency is the latest in a string of right-wing coups.
EPA/Fernando Bizerra Jr
The senate has outmanoeuvred a national leader, leaving many wondering which is fighting on the right side of democracy.
Flotsam mixes with the marginal São José community, overlooked by new-build apartment blocks in Brazil.
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Money and resources in Latin America often don’t reach those who need them most – and criminal gangs are on hand to take advantage.
EPA/Miguel Guttierez
Some onlookers are suspicious that Venezuela’s army is mounting a slow coup – but the country has been militarising itself for decades.
Organisers get ready for a rally in Lima on August 13.
‘Ni Una Menos, Villa El Salvador, Lima
Peru is the latest country in Latin America where women are mobilising against violence.
EPA/Sebastiao Moreira
The Olympics provide Brazilians with a welcome distraction from their country’s fraught and bitter politics.
Living his best life?
EPA/Jose Jacome
Ecuador is known for promoting the ‘Buen Vivir’ development policy agenda. But the state’s response to a recent earthquake brought its commitment into question.
Empty grocery store shelves in Venezuela’s capital.
REUTERS/Mariana Bazo
How does an oil-rich country end up with a food shortage? A GSU international development expert explains how the legacy of one man’s rise to power continues to cripple the nation.