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latin americaPresident Lula's Brazil has achieved new status and rising prosperity. But two key tests remain
A clash over media is at the core of the region's bitter divides, pressing left and right into new shapes
Many young Brazilians are trapped in an urban war fuelled by a deadly trade in small arms
A plot against Chilean democracy in the 1970s has echoes in Colombia and Honduras today
The renowned UN envoy killed in Baghdad on 19 August 2003 outlines his vision of human rights
A young maverick leaps into Chile's elite-dominated election. The end of an era or a false dawn?
The Sandinista revolution is thirty years old. An anniversary assessment from the former vice-president
Latin America is testing the pros and cons - and lessons - of extended presidential term-limits
The post-coup crisis is moving to a climax. Now is the time for Washington to take a principled stand
A forensic scrutiny of how Hugo Chávez's vast ambition grew in Simón Bolívar's image
Thirty years ago today, the Sandinistas assumed power. The Ortega regime is asphyxiating their original project
The powerful Kirchner couple's rule is also the story of a degraded new form of “democracy”
President Calderon has committed himself to a much needed judicial reform in Mexico. But Mexico's history of centralisation, corruption, anti-clericalism and its culture of secrecy are a challenge to overcome. This series describes the context, hope and progress for these important reforms. See also parts one and three.
The ousting of Manuel Zelaya exposes a regional faultline. But the coup's roots are local
The fallout of a third term for Colombia’s president would reach from Bogotá to Washington
An unedited recording of the talks and discussion with openDemocracy authors Juanita Leon and Ivan Briscoe, Thursday 14 May, 2009.
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The Mexican state's deep-rooted failure to protect citizens
eclipses even the health emergency
Hugo Chávez’s gift to Barack Obama is a blast from the past not a guide to the future
The impressive political rise of Ecuador's president is about to face its greatest test
A high-level Havana reshuffle reveals the political character of Cuba's leadership in a new era
A wave of change across Latin America is opening a more plural age
A failed war on drugs in a narcotised hemisphere makes a new approach essential
The trial of an ex-president is only one moment in Peru's bitter history wars
It
has the 3rd highest proportion of female Members of Parliament in
the world; over 70 percent of its health sector workers are women, including 64
percent of doctors; and its Family Code obliges men to share domestic duties and child care responsibilities equally
with women.
A sex-tourism case in Cartagena, Colombia, points to a serious regional and global problem
The election victory of the ex-guerrilla FMLN is an exemplary case of conflict transformation
Domestic violence, discrimination at work, and the deep moral questioning that grips this society
A chain of scandal reveals the operation of Colombia's deep state
The victory of Venezuela's president is grounded in an extension, not violation, of democracy
Venezuela's oil-dependent economy is trapped in a brutal logic. Can Hugo Chávez break free?
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