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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
The Metrocable in Medellín’s Comuna 13 neighbourhood.

Urban innovation

The miracle of Medellín

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by Camilo Andrés Carvajal Guerra
David Amen is socially involved in Rio de Janeiro.

Artist of the month

David Amen supports young people in Rio's favelas

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by D+C / E+Z
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
At an event in São Paulo in 2024, women commemorate the abolition of slavery in Brazil in 1888.

Novel

How brave women fight back against oppression

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by Sinikka Soriya Dombrowski
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
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