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
El Salvador’s lawmakers have voted to overturn a controversial ban on metal mining, signaling a new direction for the country’s economic future despite widespread opposition from environmental and religious groups. The ban,
More
The BRICS Summit held in Kazan from October 22–24, 2024, brought attention to several defining factors regarding Latin American countries that will be important for the continent’s political and economic development in
More
Between November 15 and 16, 2024, the government of Peru hosted the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum. This 21-country gathering that first started in 1989 brings together the major countries in the
More
“Condition of good friends, condition of old wine,” Chinese President Xi Jinping cited a Brazilian proverb to describe the long-running friendship between the Chinese and Latin American people when addressing the Brazilian
More
Claudia Sheinbaum made history today by being sworn in as Mexico’s first female president, marking a significant milestone exactly 70 years after women gained the right to vote in the country. In
More
Nearly 600 parliamentarians from 73 countries have signed a joint letter calling on the United States to remove Cuba from its list of “state-sponsors of terrorism.” The letter, coordinated by the Progressive
More
Against the backdrop of hegemonism, power politics, regional conflicts, economic slowdown and climate change, which are posing significant threats to the protection of human rights in today’s world, the First China-Latin America
More
News reports tying China to Brazil are fairly rare from a military perspective. Generally speaking, Brazil holds no great interest for China other than run-of-the-mill resource acquisition and U.S. irritation. So the
More
As the largest developing country in the world and one of the regions with the largest number of developing countries, China has long been working with Latin American and Caribbean countries to
More
Daniel Jadue, the former mayor of Recoleta (a part of Santiago, Chile), opens the door to his modest home. It is late in the evening. He is as hospitable as ever, despite
More
The United States has seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s airplane in the Dominican Republic, citing sanctions laws, the Justice Department announced Monday. “This morning, the Justice Department seized an aircraft we allege
More
In the city of La Lima in Honduras, there is a reception facility for repatriated immigrants. Almost every day, this place receives over a hundred deported Hondurans from the United States. Escalating
More
On July 31, Honduras Foreign Minister Enrique Reina issued an important statement on behalf of the island with regards to developments in Venezuela, which read in full as follows: “The government of Honduras condemns
More
On July 28, the 70th birthday of Hugo Chávez (1954-2013), Nicolás Maduro Moros won the Venezuelan presidential election, the fifth since the Bolivarian Constitution was ratified in 1999. In January 2025, Maduro
More
The following article is syndicated in partnership with the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA). In what prosecutors called a “landmark ruling in the fight for human rights,” a U.S. jury in Miami
More