Politics & Parties

Omar García Harfuch has won unprecedented popularity, bordering on adulation, for his apparent success in tackling organized crime and the drug cartels, especially in Sinaloa. Thwarted (by gender quota) in his run for mayor of Mexico City, he remains the most visible figure in the government after Claudia Sheinbaum, and could well run for president in 2030.

LAB’s Stella Horrell talks to the General Secretary of Mexico’s , Carolina Rangel Gracida, and asks: can President Claudia Sheinbaum promote substantive change via intersectional gender policy in Mexico?

‘Indigenous Peoples, poor countries – those who contributed least to the crisis are the ones who show real ability to confront it,’ writes Jelson Oliveira, professor of philosophy at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR) and founding-director of the Hans Jonas Professorship.

Noboa’s government must now prosecute a war on drugs without additional powers ‘The government tried to manipulate the Ecuadorian people by claiming that the presence...

This article is reproduced from OpenDemocracy.net under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence. You can read the original here. Extremist candidate José Antonio Kast...

The Amazon is a mirror reflecting the deep contradictions in our approach: development which is a monoculture of thought, authoritarianism disguised as progress, the extractive zeal that devours everything, including the future. The mirrors brought by the Xapiri to Yanomami shamans could help us to see, to listen, and to learn. Will the leaders who are gathering for COP30 in Belém be capable of looking into these mirrors?

Despite the fact that Jair Bolsonaro used digital militias to take down his enemies, propagated fake news on a vast scale and pursued antidemocratic acts against Brazil’s institutions, many Brazilians do not accept that their ex-president is guilty, as the supreme court decided last week. This piece has been republished from The Conversation. You can view the original here.

LAB Partner Agencia Publica has recently launched a special investigation conducted by 17 journalism organizations from around the world—from El Salvador to Indonesia—to shed light on one of the most powerful forces shaping the world we live in: Big Tech lobbying.

Cornelia Gräbner describes an extraordinary set of documents which capture the most intense and dangerous phase of repression in El Salvador, leading up to the 1992 Peace Accords.

President Trump has unleashed a barrage of actions against Brazil in an attempt to prevent Lula from retaining support. He has stated his open support for previous president Jair Bolsonaro, now under indictment for inciting a coup against Brazil's democratic institutions. He has named and inveighed against Brazil's judges, notably Alexandre de Moraes. Military threats, disguised as anti-drug aid, may soon follow. Brazil now faces 50 per cent tariffs if they do not bend the knee.