Haiti — the battle for paradise
Local residents in the idyllic island of Île-à-Vache are fighting back as greedy politicians try to take over their island off the coast of Haiti.
Brazil — how long for Dilma?
Increasingly abandoned by her old left-wing allies and viciously attacked by the right, President Dilma Rousseff looks increasingly lonely. Impeachment has become a real possibility.
CASA Latin American Theatre Festival
Posts and reviews from the eighth year of the CASA Latin American Theatre Festival, London
Brazil — Theatre of the Absurd
With the extreme right in control of the Brazilian Congress, ethics has been stood on its head and events beggar belief. Jan Rocha reports from Sāo Paulo.
Brazil — federal police have a sense of humour
The last episode in Brazil's fast-moving political drama around the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff gives us more arrests, head-butting and fisticuffs.
Mexico: Slim pickings
How can a country where half the population lives below the poverty line, produce Carlos Slim often regarded as the world's richest man?
Brazil: transport is not a commodity
Passe Livre has held 7 mass demonstrations in São Paulo aiming to force the government to rescind fare rises.
Brazil — A Bridge to the Future?
The programme introduced by acting President Michel Temer consists of extreme neo-liberal measures that the government believes can be imposed by force. But will it work?
Rio’s Not-So-Green Olympics
Brazil promised "Green Games for a Blue Planet". But did it deliver?
Argentina — controversy over glyphosate
Argentine agriculture is dominated by GM soya yet local residents increasingly fear that the pesticides used to cultivate it are making them sick.