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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 increasing.
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 presidency
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...
More than 2.3 million Venezuelans – roughly 7 percent of the entire population – have fled the country’s political...
Wars are on the rebound. There are twice as many civil conflicts today, for example, as there were in...
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Cristian Sabino was sitting on a plastic chair by this beach resort’s central market when a gunman walked...
Though I’ve been lucky to have been insulated from gun violence most of my life, it was at the core of...
Sold from vending machines in Pennsylvania, feed depots in Nevada, pharmacies in Georgia and jewelry...
The planet is urbanizing at an unprecedented speed, generating enormous social, economic and climatic...
ATT Monitor is a project of Control Arms. The project was launched in January 2015 with the support of...
On this edition of "Deep South" Ilona Szabo de Carvalho, Executive Director of Instituto Igarapé, discusses...
n one of the most lawless corners of Brazil, the former paratrooper and leading presidential candidate...
Mali experienced a rare glimmer of stability this month. Although voter turnout was dampened by security...
Canada recently became the second country — and the first Group of Seven country — to legalize marijuana for...
BANGUI, Central African Republic—To locals, he is known simply as “Force.” The moniker is appropriate....
This ugly tale of domestic abuse is related from various angles by the security cameras in a residential...
Homicide rates in Mexico and Brazil are climbing even further. Yet Britain could learn from listening...
Data show a 3% increase of people killed in 2017 from the previous year; rapes also rose 8% to 60,018
Démocraties fatiguées 3|6. La montée de l’autoritarisme est inquiétante, mais les libertés continuent...
A shadow hangs over Toronto after Sunday’s shooting on the Danforth. The recent killing spree follows...
Before 2018 is over, more than half the population of Latin America will have elected a new president.
As she began to run afoul of a street gang in her working-class neighborhood in Medellín, Lina Carmona...
Nicaragua’s political crisis is spinning out of control, with political tensions rising to levels not...
Overall, the past quarter-century has been an era of progress for the region: Democracy has spread.
In a murder-plagued Brazilian city, a legislator pushes against popular clamor for hard-line enforcement.