Has Bolsonaro released a flood of guns to overwhelm Brazil’s democracy?
OPINION: Brazil’s president may well lose Sunday’s election, but he has ensured he has plenty of armed supporters
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Published in:democraciaAbierta: FeatureVenezuelan refugees find only misery on the ‘happy island’ of Aruba
The Dutch island of Aruba has refused asylum to thousands of migrants who have fled neighbouring Venezuela
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Published in:democraciaAbierta: AnalysisHow the international arms trade kills women in Brazil
Firearms are the main cause of female homicides in Brazil. Europe’s arms exporters must take responsibility
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Published in:democraciaAbierta: FeatureDani Silva: Displaced from her home – but fighting to save all of ours
The Belo Monte dam’s construction forced 14,000 from their homes in Brazil's Amazon and disrupted a vital ecosystem
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Published in:democraciaAbierta: OpinionWhy reporting from the Amazon has become so dangerous
The discovery of two bodies believed to be those of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira highlights risks facing...
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Published in:democraciaAbierta: FeatureBrazil’s invisible victims of state violence
A year after Rio de Janeiro state’s deadliest police operation, bereaved mothers fight for justice
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Published in:democraciaAbierta: OpinionEcuador has no winners – both sides will pay for peace
After an 18-day national strike, the government and Indigenous leaders have come to an uneasy truce. Will it last?
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: InvestigationBrazil’s Indigenous peoples mobilise against encroachment on their lands
As agribusiness, a slow legal system and Bolsonaro’s policies threaten lands, Indigenous peoples are fighting back
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionWhy disinformation could prove decisive in Brazil’s election
As the run-off vote looms at the end of the month, the far-Right’s misinformation machine is going into overdrive
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionColombia faces moment of reckoning as tense election awaits
Populist outlier Rodolfo Hernández will challenge the leftist candidate Gustavo Petro in Sunday's presidential vote
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: InvestigationPamplona’s heart: Doña Marta gives hope to Venezuela’s migrants
Doña Marta Duque has been providing food, drink and a place to stay for weary migrants at her home since 2015
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionColombia set to vote for historic change with first left-wing president
Gustavo Petro looks set to surf to victory on the ‘Pink Tide’ of left-wing wins sweeping across South America
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: FeatureHow a new seed gives Guatemalans a way out of hunger and bad health
Poor farmers in Guatemala eat little but maize. A first step out of malnutrition is a new seed bred to yield the...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: AnalysisWill Colombia’s next president stop the senseless murders of social activists?
Despite a historic peace deal in 2016, deaths continue – with least 70 activist leaders and human rights defenders...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: AnalysisSeven thousand miles away, the Ukraine war sparks crisis in Peru
At least six people have died during mass protests in the Latin American country, which has faced widespread unrest...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionHow can the deadly violence against Mexican journalists be stopped?
Between cartels and corrupt politicians, the country is among the most dangerous to be a journalist. Eight have been...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: FeatureFleeing Venezuela: migrants on making the perilous journey to a new life
Just across the border in Colombia, people displaced by the ongoing Venezuelan migration crisis share tales of...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: FeatureCould agroecology save Colombia’s farming crisis?
Agroecology, with its aim of rescuing the countryside, can play a central role in the sustainable economy needed to...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionWhy Bolsonaro may want to think twice about Putin’s support
As Brazil’s elections loom, President Bolsonaro finds himself behind in the polls and isolated internationally. Can...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: InvestigationAs migrants leave Venezuela, a team of volunteers waits – and listens
The unprecedented effort to collect migrants’ stories is not just a way of bearing witness to suffering. It’s also...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionAriel Dorfman: young President Boric must lay Chile's ghosts to rest
Oppressive conservative forces are still strong in Chile and Gabriel Boric’s supporters are impatient for change....
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: FeatureHunger and desperation: Venezuela’s huge displacement crisis
With 95% of Venezuelans living in extreme poverty, every day hundreds are forced to walk to neighbouring Colombia in...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionGabriel Boric gets to work remaking Chile
The youngest president in the history of the Andean nation will be inaugurated on Friday. He’s got a difficult job...
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureColombia, a dangerous place for journalists and women land defenders
Independent journalists in Colombia are taking serious risks to tell the stories of women land rights defenders under threat
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: AnalysisEcuador gives Indigenous people – and nature – a big win
The Constitutional Court has ruled that Indigenous peoples have the right to decide over oil and mining projects in...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: AnalysisIs Latin America shifting to the Left again?
After the Left’s success in Chile, Honduras and Peru last year, will Brazil and Colombia follow suit in 2022?
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: FeatureBrazil’s policing is a war of men. Civilians are caught in the crossfire
Rio de Janeiro’s security policy, led by a masculine logic of war, subjects people to authoritarian actions with no...
