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The spectacle of two countries confronting systemic corruption and bad government says a lot about the state of Latin American democracy.
Now that a judge has convicted Luiz Inacio da Silva of corruption and sentenced him him to almost a decade in prison, what’s next for the country that loves him?
In one bloody week in June, 181 Rio residents were shot, including a baby in utero. It’s now impossible not to notice that city’s once-lauded favela “pacification” strategy has all but collapsed.
Research shows how politics can easily halt reforms that require time to take effect.
As a former president goes down for nine-and-a-half years, Brazil’s judicial structures are weathering the political crisis well.
Ousting an executive leader from office doesn’t always have the intended effect, as these examples from Central and South America show.
How is a country that was once South America’s richest now on the verge of bankruptcy? A Venezuelan economist breaks down his country’s descent into chaos.
The world seems convinced that Venezuela’s famous national orchestral programme is turning on the government. Why?
As democracy unravels and hunger spreads, Venezuelan youth must decide whether to join the resistance or build their lives abroad.
Deadly, ineffective and generally fated to fall, border walls are multiplying and becoming the new normal in international relations.
Demilitarised female guerrillas in Colombia are hoping to spark a new women’s movement based in the FARC’s revolutionary ideals.
One of the world’s most spectacularly unpopular president might yet make it through.
Musicians who learned how to play through a state-funded program called El Sistema are taking their instruments to the streets to protest the government.
Latin America’s murder rate is the highest in the world, accounting for one in every four homicides on the planet.
By rolling back chunks of the Obama deal with Cuba, Donald Trump is giving up just the sort of opportunities he promised to seek out.
When corruption becomes truly entrenched in a state, it can seem impossible to uproot. But Mexicans are still fighting it.
New Zealand just conferred personhood upon the Whanganui River, giving it standing to legally defend its rights. Can this novel strategy save the environment?
The president restored restrictions on Americans’ travel to Cuba and prohibited transactions with its military. Here’s why, and what’s to come.
Luz, a once-elegant 19th-century neighbourhood in downtown São Paulo, is prime real estate. But redevelopment means clearing out a homeless encampment known as “Crackland”.
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Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong
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Research Fellow, African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research (ACEIR), University of Cape Town
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Professor of Management and Organization, University of Southern California
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Senior Lecturer in International Business, Birkbeck, University of London
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Professor of Global Politics, University of Southampton
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Director of the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University
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Lecturer, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
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Senior Lecturer in Latin American Politics, University of Bath
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Postgraduate Associate at the Institute of Latin American Studies, La Trobe University
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Professor of Politics and International Relations, Florida International University
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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
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Senior Lecturer in Latin American Politics, University of Liverpool
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Research fellow at the International Development Department, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor, Universidad Central de Venezuela
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Fort Lewis College
