Poverty, insecurity and a naive and misguided drugs policy have led to a virtual civil war in Ecuador.
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Just five years ago, Ecuador was still considered one of the safest countries in Latin America. Now, there is a brutal war playing out between criminal gangs and the state.
Widespread violence tied to Ecuadorian drug gangs has left the country looking at a draconian response.
Despite hosting the 2023 Pan American Games and electing a president with a progressive agenda, Chile continues to grapple with entrenched economic inequality.
Some countries have managed to elevate nature and ecosystems to the status of legal entities. Do these innovations really help to protect the environment?
Much like the history of the US, Joel Roberts Poinsett, after whom the poinsettia is named, had a complicated and troubling history.
Anti-democratic actions and government corruption are key reasons many Guatemalans migrate to the US.
The former Peruvian strongman appeared frail as he left prison. But his influence on politics remains strong.
Women represent half of Mexico’s Congress and hold key positions in politics and the judiciary. But the country is still dogged by high rates of femicide.
As detailed in a June 2023 event in Grenoble, France, business schools hold partial responsibility for the longstanding behaviour of multinational corporations (MNCs) in indigenous territories.
Migrants who cross the treacherous Darien Gap between Panama and Colombia often experience violence and abuse, extortion or detention by migration authorities.
African economic growth is central to what happens in this century to both global poverty and global inequality.
Argentinians will vote in a new president on Oct. 22, 2023. But the front-runner’s plans to slash health funding might find resistance.
The IMF’s US57 billion bailout to Argentina in 2018 was the biggest loan it has ever extended.
The mention of the Falklands/Malvinas territorial dispute in an EU document shows that, post-Brexit, Brussels no longer feels beholden to toe the UK’s line on sovereignty.
The recent kidnapping of a US nurse has put a focus on the plight of Haitians living with organized crime every day. But few governments are willing to intervene.
Relations between the EU and Latin America and the Caribbean will resume at the highest level after eight years without summits of presidents from both regions. Spain is the main driving force.
Surging deforestation in Bolivia means the country now ranks as one of the highest carbon emitters in the world.
Terms like ‘Third World’ and ‘developing nations’ have long fallen out of fashion.
Brazil and India are among the countries pointedly not taking sides over the war in Ukraine. But this is not the nonaligned movement of yesteryear.
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