South America

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.

Even with the eyes of the world elsewhere, here’s how Trump can keep up pressure on Maduro.

Five years in, the mammoth corruption probe, beset by scandal, shows no signs of slowing down.

The country has assembled one of the largest stockpiles of weapons in the Western Hemisphere. Here’s how to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands.

Calling for the final phase of the revolution was the Venezuelan opposition leader’s boldest move yet, and the outcome will show whether his protest still has legs.

A transcript of the opposition leader’s remarks from La Carlota Air Base.