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Jair Bolsonaro delivers campaign pledge for looser regulation, despite murder rate
Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree significantly expanding the public's right...
By The Washington Post
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree Tuesday loosening restrictions...
The warning signs are increasingly hard to ignore
The idea that a ‘good guy with a gun’ will improve personal security in Brazil is pure fiction
President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday signed a decree making it easier for many Brazilians to own fire...
President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil signed a decree on Tuesday
Brazilians are desperate for better public security, and not without good reason
We are living through an era of intense turbulence, disillusionment and bewilderment.
Is the world becoming less violent? The answer is yes and no.
"Anti-migrant sentiment is at fever pitch." Seeing ourselves as others see us
Long an advocate for refugee rights, Brazil’s response to the Venezuelan crisis has fallen short. Here’s...
Africa is urbanising at break-neck speed. So how do people keep track of where city amenities are, or...
But that will not be enough to curb emigration
The 16-year-old had spent a balmy Saturday afternoon in May with his high school friends at a funk music...
For Natalia and Rubens Ortega, the only remaining question is: Glock or Taurus?
For as long as anyone can recall, Ituri, the mineral-rich province in the northeastern Democratic Republic...
Cities, not nation-states, are the dominant unit of human organization in the twenty-first century.
For desperate Latin American leaders, the ex-mayor’s super-cop reputation matters more than feeble r...
“international cooperation is key to tackling global challenges and ensuring durable peace.”
When Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was bussed to trial in New York on Tuesday morning, Brooklyn Bridge was...
Legal gun sales – and black market forces – keep arms flowing across the U.S.-Mexico border
This idea has gained momentum as Peru, Bolivia and Brazil join forces to build a corridor that would...
Populism's global resurgence has alarmed many, as has former Trump advisor Steve Bannon's effort to empower...
While there is no need for American troops on our border now, that day is coming.
An ultraright populist just won the presidency of Latin America’s largest country.
Cities, not nation states, are the dominant form of human civilization in the 21st century.
As 1.4 million people move to cities each week, local abilities to keep residents safe can become strained,...
An ultra-right populist just won the presidency of Latin America’s largest country.
The new leader of Latin America’s biggest democracy and economy doesn’t care about your feelings
Displacement and deforestation
Ex-army captain has promised to appoint military men who served alongside him under dictatorship
Brazilians are voting Sunday in a presidential election that’s captured global attention largely because...
According to the Pew Research Center, the crime rate has fallen in the United States over the past 25...
Brash, hard-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro is cleaning up in Brazil
Brazil is a majority nonwhite country, a multicultural mix of ethnicities.
CALI, Colombia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As a boy growing up in a slum in Cali, one of the most...
Environmental defenders in Brazil are at risk — last year, 57 were assassinated and the numbers are...
A caravan of about 1,600 hungry and tired Honduran immigrants crossed into Guatemala on Monday with the...
Francine Farias had just completed a census of her tumbledown favela on the outskirts of one of the world’s...
“IT’S going to be crazy tonight,” sighs Craven Engel, a pastor in Hanover Park, a township on the fringes...
From the crowded markets of Dakar and Karachi to the informal settlements of Addis Ababa and Rio de Janeiro,...
By merging the biological, physical and digital worlds, the Fourth Industrial Revolution is transforming...
General Antonio Hamilton Mourao would be Brazil’s vice president.
This book is our sixth Small Wars Journal--El Centro anthology, covering writings published between 2016...
A dangerous right-wing populist who preys on division and disunity looks to be headed for the presid...
After years of corruption scandals, economic malaise, and deepening political polarization, Brazilians...
A surge in migrants has fueled populist backlashes in cities around the world. But urban areas have a...
Latin America’s largest democracy suffered a record 63,880 homicides last year and the phenomenon is...
In less than a week, Brazil will vote in the most uncertain presidential elections since its return to...