El Salvador: Unhappy Anniversary?
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...
Brazil: indigenous lives matter
São Paulo, 15 March. Despairing of finding justice in Brazil, cacique Ladio Veron of the Guarani Kaiowá indigenous people in Mato Grosso do Sul, ...
Brazil: who’s afraid of Lava Jato?
Main image: police family members protest in Vitória. Their placard reads: We've had no wage increase since 2013 - 40% inflation. The coffin is...
Colombia: what does peace mean in Comuna 13?
24 January. With the new year in Colombia came a new sentence from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, holding the state responsible for...
Brazil’s prison massacres – a bloody start to the year
Brazilians began the New Year in the most terrible way, with images of piles of headless, dismembered corpses, the result of a savage massacre...
Brazil: the angora cat, the saint and the end of the...
São Paulo 11 Dec 2016. Another turbulent week in Brazilian politics. As Brazil lurches from crisis to crisis, it seems more like a country...
Brazil: Cunha, the man who knows too much
The arrest of the former speaker of Congress has sent shock-waves through Brasilia.
Brazil — election post-mortem
The PT (Workers' Party) fared very badly in the recent municipal elections and is unlikely to recover before 2018. The political system is entering a new era, but no one knows where it will lead.
Brazil: the new ‘government’ already in crisis
Anti-Temer protests are spreading like wildfire as the new government is forced to make U turn after U turn
Brazil — Forward into the Past
Interim President Michel Temer has chosen a white, male cabinet which ignores all the social advances of the last 14 years