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A khat seller in Somalia, Kenya’s largest export market for the plant.

Drug trade

How a drug lobby almost reopened a border

Khat exports are worth around $ 100 million a year to Kenya. Farmers and traders hope that their economic and political clout will finally reopen the long-closed border with Somalia permanently.

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by Joseph Maina

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Haitian-born Rayan Dieudonné performs the role of 9-year-old Rico.

Film

A child’s experience of exile

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by Eva-Maria Verfürth
Workers supervise the unloading of metro train cars in Bogota, after disembarking from China, in September 2025.

China in Latin America

An unexpected boost for democracy

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by Marcela Ibáñez
by Alain Schläpfer
Oil drilling in Vaca Muerta, Argentina: plans are in place to expand the infrastructure for liquefied natural gas in this vast shale oil and gas field.

Supply chains

Europe is shifting its attention to energy resources in Latin America

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by Andreas Stamm
by Verónica Robert
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