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Domestically, Brazil is a mess. Now, its foreign policy is in crisis, too, landing a staggering one-two punch to this one-time rising star.
Argentineans are determined to not forgive or forget the criminals who killed or disappeared more than 30,000 people.
Having seen off his predecessor in a spectacular impeachment saga, Michel Temer may be forced out of office for misconduct of his own.
Brazil’s political crisis is spiraling to a new level amid the release of recordings that allegedly caught the president authorizing a bribe. Fixing this mess will take more than a personnel change.
We may think of current reactionary politics as radical and new, but unchecked mercantilism has always elicited a fierce backlash from both left and right. Here’s what history tells us about today.
By singing frankly about sex and life on the streets, the pioneering women of Rio de Janeiro’s funk scene are redefining what feminism sounds like.
But there is a stand-off on the left of the political spectrum.
The heist and free trade are just opposite sides of the same coin.
Too many able-bodied Paraguayans are underemployed, fuelling frustration and entrenching inequality.
(UPDATED) If the military abandons Venezuela’s power-grabbing president, it’s game over for the Maduro regime.
A new study shows that conditional cash transfers have helped Ecuador’s poorest households climb out of poverty. When that money was paired with capital to invest, people fared even better.
Fed up with an increasingly authoritarian government, Venezuelans are taking to the streets – where they are met with violence.
A controversial law to officially engage Mexico’s armed forces in fighting crime has human rights groups dismayed.
Though police violence is widely tolerated in Brazil, not everyone believes in ‘eye for an eye’ as official state policy.
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.
A brief chronicle of the Ecuadorian election fraud that wasn’t.
It is vital for people to demand transparency, but when popular outrage is manipulated for political purposes, democracy suffers.
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?
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.
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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
