World Affairs: South America

The last revolutionary

Fidel Castro has survived 600 assassination attempts to become the world symbol of anti-capitalism. His sister has just confessed she used to spy on him, the US embargo stands, and his health is failing, yet still he endures

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The revolutionary road

Fidel’s defining moments

“All will be done again as it was in far-off times”

Surveying the fragments of an obliterated civilisation at the British Museum’s Moctezuma exhibition, Tom Holland is haunted by the parallels between our vulnerable globalised world and that of the doomed Aztecs

My father has been punished for helping Honduras

After the removal of my father by a military coup sanctions against the regime are vital

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Honduras - the undemocratic republic

Without pressure from the US or Latin America, the Honduran coup government will remain an ugly blemish on the continent

Chávez is failing women

Venezuela’s leader may be a self-proclaimed feminist, but his country still has a shocking record on domestic violence.

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Obama’s empire

The 44th president of the United States was elected amid hopes that he would roll back his country’s global dominance. Today, he is commander-in-chief of an unprecedented network of military bases that is still expanding.

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Coming soon to Obama’s backyard . . .

Obama is continuing the history of US interventionism in Latin America with plans for a series of military bases in Colombia

Honduras wavers on the brink

The events of 28 June took everyone by surprise – shooting in the night in Tegucigalpa, followed by the exile to Costa Rica of the democratically elected president Manuel Zelaya. Suspicions persist that the US was behind his overthrow.

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Another scandal gets dodged

Observations on Colombia