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Union Street in the city of Vereeniging, south of Johannesburg.

South Africa

Africa’s largest economy is deindustrialising

Industrial regions across the world are struggling to adapt as heavy industry declines. In South Africa’s Vaal Triangle, the closure of steel mills and rising unemployment reveal the human consequences of this trend.

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by Nathalie Bertrams
by Tristen Taylor

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Eduardo Relero is a contemporary artist.

Artist of the month

Eduardo Relero creates giant 3D artworks

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by D+C / E+Z
A guard stands in front of a prison cell at the CECOT high-security prison in Tecolotzco, El Salvador.

Human rights

Inside El Salvador’s prison system

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by Julia Gavarrete
Like-minded heads of state are supported by Donald Trump: Argentina’s President Javier Milei with the US President at the White House in October 2025.

Latin America

Trump’s vision to reclaim the “US backyard”

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by André de Mello e Souza
Picture of Donald Trump on a poster-covered wall in São Paulo, 2019. The fact is: Brazil has not made any major concessions to the US.

Latin America

Who bows in the face of Trump’s coercion?

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by André de Mello e Souza
Protests in Caracas against electoral fraud following the 2024 presidential elections.

Democracy vs autocracy

The kind of solidarity Venezuelans need right now

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by Laura Vidal
A supporter of Chile’s far-right president José Antonio Kast holds up a photograph of former dictator Augusto Pinochet Ugarte when celebrating the election win.

South America

A growing appeal for authoritarian rule

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by Pedro Alarcón
by Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón
Demonstrations against the government of former Peruvian President Dina Boluarte in Lima in 2023.

SDGs

How Peru has progressed despite political turmoil

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by Javier Bronfman
by Eva-Maria Verfürth
In 2023, demonstrators protested in São Paulo against a proposed amnesty bill that could have benefited former president Jair Bolsonaro.

Brazil

Jair Bolsonaro’s historic conviction: A landmark for democracy

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by Mariana Llanos
A Maya Train carriage arrives at a station in Campeche, Mexico.

Organised crime

Train of destruction

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by Sonja Peteranderl
Venezuelan migrants awaiting the issuance of the Special Stay Permit by the Colombian government in Bogotá in 2023.

Colombia

Colombia offers displaced Venezuelans residence and work permits

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by Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón