Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro traded accusations of lying and corruption in their first presidential run-off debate on Sunday, exposing the bitter divisions shaping the
Venezuela’s post-Maduro reality is defined by a stark imbalance of power. The Rodríguez government has avoided direct confrontation with Washington while negotiating access to its vast oil resources and seeking to stabilise
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Brazil’s presidential election comes amid a crisis of confidence in the Supreme Federal Court, after allegations involving Justice Alexandre de Moraes and financier Daniel Vorcaro have intensified political polarisation. With Lula and
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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva holds a five-percentage-point lead over far-right opposition candidate Flavio Bolsonaro six days before the first round of the presidential election, according to a Quaest voting-intention
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A surge in HIV infections in Peru’s remote Awajún communities is unfolding alongside widespread sexual abuse, limited healthcare access and deep stigma, forcing indigenous women to organise support for survivors as official
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More than 70,000 people gathered in Mexico City’s Plaza de la Constitución on Sunday, September 27, as President Claudia Sheinbaum concluded a nationwide accountability tour launched after she presented her constitutional Second
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Brazil’s overseas electorate has reached a record 918,876 registered voters ahead of the country’s presidential election on October 4, according to the Superior Electoral Court (TSE). The voters, spread across 134 countries,
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Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has said she expects a way out of her country’s political crisis “in the coming weeks”, while insisting that Venezuelans inside and outside the country must
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For Kleyton Zacarioto, a 39-year-old butcher near São Paulo’s historic centre, Brazil’s economic recovery has yet to translate into easier household finances. Customers have been buying less meat for years as food
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Colombia has broken diplomatic relations with Iran, citing alleged links between the Islamic Republic’s government and international terrorist groups, human rights violations and concerns over Tehran’s nuclear programme. The decision was formally
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Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, thanked US President Donald Trump for pursuing diplomatic relations and announced that Venezuela will hold elections, but stopped short of setting a date for the vote. Speaking
More US President Donald Trump and Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez met in New York on Tuesday on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly, in a meeting confirmed by the White House
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Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado made three attempts to return to Venezuela within 24 hours but was unable to complete the journey, as acting President Delcy Rodríguez held a high-profile meeting
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Three powerful Latin American women — Venezuela’s Delcy Rodríguez, Nicaragua’s Rosario Murillo and Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum — reveal a striking contrast in Western media portrayals of women on the political left. Rodríguez
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Chávez arrived at the General Assembly with a book in hand, Hegemony or Survival by Noam Chomsky. His warning was simple yet devastating: the United States’s pretence of dominating the world put
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After Venezuela and Cuba, will the Trump administration turn its spotlight onto Nicaragua? Secretary of State Rubio has just finished a tour of three Latin American countries now allied with Trump –
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