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, increasing the risk of disasters, warned the United Nations secretary-general.
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 of one man: Jair Bolsonaro.
According to the Pew Research Center, the crime rate has fallen in the United States over the past 25 years.
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 world’s most violent cities, Andres Felipe Gonzalez knew his chances of a life without crime or becoming a victim of crime were slim.
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 hopes of making it to the United States.
Francine Farias had just completed a census of her tumbledown favela on the outskirts of one of the world’s most violent citieswhen she heard a volley of gunfire and her count was rendered suddenly out of date.
“IT’S going to be crazy tonight,” sighs Craven Engel, a pastor in Hanover Park, a township on the fringes of Cape Town.
From the crowded markets of Dakar and Karachi to the informal settlements of Addis Ababa and Rio de Janeiro, urban technology seems to be thriving everywhere
By merging the biological, physical and digital worlds, the Fourth Industrial Revolution is transforming the way people live. The
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 and 2017.
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 have lost faith in the promise of democracy, and could soon elect a dangerous authoritarian to the presidency.
A surge in migrants has fueled populist backlashes in cities around the world. But urban areas have a key role to play in mitigating the crisis.
Latin America’s largest democracy suffered a record 63,880 homicides last year and the phenomenon is driving some to support the hardline policies of candidate Jair Bolsonaro
In less than a week, Brazil will vote in the most uncertain presidential elections since its return to democracy in 1985.
More than 2.3 million Venezuelans – roughly 7 percent of the entire population – have fled the country’s political and economic crisis since 2014, the largest human displacement in Latin America’s history.
Wars are on the rebound. There are twice as many civil conflicts today, for example, as there were in 2001.
Cristian Sabino was sitting on a plastic chair by this beach resort’s central market when a gunman walked up and shot him five times. As the 22-year-old dropped to the ground, the assailant fired a final bullet to the head and walked away.
Though I’ve been lucky to have been insulated from gun violence most of my life, it was at the core of the identity of my hometown, Washington, D.C.
Sold from vending machines in Pennsylvania, feed depots in Nevada, pharmacies in Georgia and jewelry stores in Texas, ammunition is in many states easier to buy than cold medicine.
The planet is urbanizing at an unprecedented speed, generating enormous social, economic and climatic stress. If sustainable urbanization is one of the paramount challenges of the 21st century, then Asia is ground zero for determining whether humanity can succeed.
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