Brazil: heroes and rats
As rain-soaked soldiers carried coffin after coffin into the football stadium in the small city of Chapecó, in a procession which seemed as though...
Peru: another Odebrecht bribery scandal
On 4 January, a congressional commission with full investigative powers was created to deal with the accusations of illegal payments to government officials by...
Brazil: Fachin’s list: the Odebrecht earthquake
Sâo Paulo. April 19. The sheer scale and volume of the gigantic bribery operation that has been bankrolling the entire infrastructure of Brazilian politics...
Mexico: Trump weakens fragile economy
If the immigration agenda of Donald Trump and his administration is not enough of a racist assault on the human rights of Mexicans, the...
Brazil: Temer teeters as plea bargain revelations unleash chaos
São Paulo, May 22. Few Brazilians were familiar with the name of Joesley Batista, who with his brother, Wesley, owns Brazil’s biggest meat packing...
The Political Cloudscape of Brazil: changing shape by the minute
São Paulo, May 25. A week is a long time in Brazilian politics, and President Michel Temer has revealed himself to be a stubborn...
Tapajos under attack 15: Brazil on verge of legitimizing Amazon land...
Brazil’s president has until 22 June to approve or veto two bills (PLC 4 and PLC 5) turning over more than 600,000 hectares...
Brazil announces end to Amazon mega-dam building policy
Brazil’s government this week announced a major shift away from its policy of building mega-dams in the Brazilian Amazon – a strategy born...
Bolsonaro: from bananas to pineapples
São Paulo, April 5: ‘If he sees a banana skin on the pavement across the road, he will cross over to slip on it’,...
Alan García – the broken leader
In 1980, I was working for small weekly newspaper in my native Peru
called Kausachum, a quechua word that means ‘Long life’. The editor was
Augusto...