South America

The Brazilian president is banking on popular outrage at lockdowns if the economy falls apart—and elite fears of his vice president.

Facing a coronavirus-aggravated economic downturn, Argentine President Alberto Fernández is walking a foreign-policy tightrope between Bolivia, Venezuela, and the United States.

The collapsing medical system can’t handle a coronavirus outbreak on its own. It’s time for the international community to step in.

After suspending the country’s Congress last fall, new legislative elections could give Martín Vizcarra the support he needs to confront corruption—or lead to renewed political gridlock.

Since Alberto Fernández’s election, the U.S. president hadn’t antagonized the incoming leftist administration—until the announcement of new tariffs on steel and aluminum this week.

Here’s how the country can avoid the resource curse.

After hundreds of thousands of anti-government demonstrators took to the streets, President Iván Duque’s administration faces calls to address a range of demands.

History won’t remember him for the ongoing unrest, but for the enfranchisement of Bolivia’s indigenous population.

Here’s why they want to replace the dictatorship-era document.

Washington should do more to address the worsening humanitarian situation in the region.

Argentina’s president, who is widely expected to lose Sunday’s election, had no options to save the country’s economy that would have let him stay in power.

In Santiago, demonstrations over economic inequality are expected to continue after President Sebastián Piñera promised reforms.

Costa Rica has announced its candidacy to stop Nicolás Maduro’s tyrannical government from winning a coveted seat at the U.N.

Do the Amazon fires point the way for future international efforts to combat climate change?

Even if President Juan Orlando Hernández were to leave office, the country’s problems would persist.

And now Bolsonaro’s iron-fisted approach risks worsening the problem.

A few years after Bogotá struck a deal with the FARC, challenges to the agreement risk undermining it.