Brazil’s election proves it – the pandemic did not kill nationalist populism
Jair Bolsonaro has run Lula surprisingly close in the first round of the presidential vote, piling on the pressure ahead…
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Lula vs Bolsonaro: Brazil’s 2022 presidential election explained
The race to be the next president of Latin America’s biggest country could hardly be more polarised.
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Brazil’s dangers for environmental defenders cost my friend Dom Phillips his life
The journalist was researching a book called How to Save the Amazon when he and a colleague were murdered.
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Gabriel Boric and Latin America’s new pink tide
Left-wing governments are being elected across Latin America, but they face the threat of a rejuvenated and authoritarian right.
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Chile’s new leftist president could transform the country
Gabriel Boric has won a mandate to change Chile. The only question is how he will do it.
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The Cuban crackdown proves protests are working
Planned demonstrations in Havana on 15 November were suppressed by the state, but the pressure for change remains.
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Glenn Greenwald: the greatest journalist of all time?
Why the Brazil-based investigative reporter divides the US left and has become a friend to the right.
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Latin Americans are one of the UK’s fastest-growing groups. So why aren’t they recognised?
Latin Americans have been ignored by politicians, the media and the national census. A new British-born generation is trying to change…
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