Category Archives: Brazilian Report

El Mencho’s killing shows Mexico’s new approach towards cartels. And why Ecuador’s Daniel Noboa went from mining champion to halting production in Amazon provinces.

Argentina’s libertarian president passed his first major bill through Congress. And did Peru’s right secretly vote a left-winger into the presidency?

While Latin Americans have gone crazy for the Puerto Rican trap and reggaeton star, Brazil has continued to dance to its own beat.

A look at presidential favorites Iván Cepeda and Abelardo de la Espriella. And a border town in Peru’s Amazon threatens to become part of Brazil.

Three Latin Americans are favored to be the next UN secretary-general. And the re-capture of Nicolás Maduro’s frontman Alex Saab in Caracas.

Costa Rica’s president-elect says she will refound the republic. And a deadly centuries-long dispute between two small towns in Guatemala.

Ecuador tries Donald Trump’s tariff recipe on Colombia. And subsidy cuts have been a struggle for Bolivia’s Rodrigo Paz.

Will Peru’s Chancay port be followed by a bi-oceanic railway? And an in-depth look at former president Juan Orlando Hernández’s drug case.

Two weeks before its election, Costa Rica said an activist hired a hitman to kill Rodrigo Chaves. And Claudia Sheinbaum celebrates a big drop in homicides in Mexico.

The capture of Nicolás Maduro has set alarm bells ringing in Havana. And a look at Diosdado Cabello, the enforcer at odds with new Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez.