Nick Caistor

Scandals, corruption, protest are the new normal as November has seen a procession of three presidents in the national palace in Lima. But Peru’s institutional instability dates back much further. Nick Caistor reports.

The rainforests of Central America have come to north London. One day Tintin decided he would like to sit on one of my freshly...

Cartonera books – cheap books with cardboard covers and photocopied texts – were originally a by-product of the Cartonero movement in Argentina, when people from the...

A lone man in the garb of a nineteenth century mambi Cuban freedom fighter sits high on a lamp post above a sea of...

Since taking office on 1 December 2018, president Andres Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been a man in a hurry. Aged 65, he is said to...

Main Image: COHA Mexico’s next presidential election is not due until July 2018, but by mid-December this year the contest has already come to life. The...

On 27 August, Guatemalan president Jimmy Morales made a special TV broadcast to the nation, declaring the head of the CICIG 'persona non grata' in Guatemala.

By the end of April 1977 the military dictatorship that called itself the ‘Process of National Re-organization’ had been in power in Argentina for...

In 1992 the United Nations-backed Chapultepec peace accords brought decades of civil war in El Salvador to an end. Now, 25 years after the peace...

A newly published collection of articles by leading Mexican journalists details the extent of impunity and corruption that pervades all aspects of life in Mexico today. LAB editor Nick Caistor, a contributor to the anthology, outlines its indictments.