The race between the incumbent president and Flávio Bolsonaro is a part of a decades-long right-left split in the country over the meaning of the nation.
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Juan Orlando Hernández’s escape from legal accountability at home and abroad point to the larger challenges of democracy building under the shadow of US power.
Huachuma, the Andean cactus better known as San Pedro, contains mescaline, a psychoactive compound that alters perception and mood.
Ecuador’s ports, trade and strategic location connect South American cocaine production with consumers in Europe and North America.
Crackdowns may suppress some forms of gang activity without dismantling their economic structures.
An expert explains why the H5N1 strain is such a threat to seals worldwide.
Study suggests long-practiced strategy of taking out the heads of drug cartels may be missing underlying predictors of crime.
Now as then, the US supported forces that wanted to change the political situation in Venezuela.
Both faults are along plate boundaries that move in similar ways and have ruptured in enormously destructive earthquakes in the past.
A philosopher of sport guides readers through the ethics of Diego Maradona’s most celebrated goal – and his most controversial.
The nebulous nature of narco-terrorism has allowed presidents from Reagan to Trump to deploy the term when it serves broader political goals in Latin America.
This atmospheric phenomenon can cause floods and droughts across the world.
Oil producers across the Americas have responded to the disruption in the Gulf by increasing output and exports.
Biological invasions can severely harm the welfare of animals, causing them to suffer. AWICIS is a new framework that can be used to assess the severity of these impacts.
The interwar years in Latin America saw a remarkable flourishing of left-wing political thought aiming to challenge US dominance. That could offer lessons for today.
Inflation has fallen in Argentina, but at enormous cost.
President Donald Trump’s relationship with Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is complicated by the US administration’s broader strategy in Latin America.
Instability has come to define Peru’s political landscape, as successive congresses and presidents have become locked in a power struggle.
In new research, biochemical analyses align with imagery and historical sources to show how the pre-Inca Chincha society turned guano into a source of power.
However, there is a more profound lesson we can learn from Brazil: Democracy depends on more than institutions.
Top contributors
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Executive Director of the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University; King's College London
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Professor of Management and Organization, University of Southern California
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Associate Professor in Strategy and International Business, University of Birmingham
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Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow na Bosch Academy e Co-fundador, Instituto Igarapé; Princeton University
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Professor of Global Politics, University of Southampton
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Research fellow at the International Development Department, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer in Latin American Politics, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Modern Latin America History, University of Denver
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Professor, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Associate Professor of Global Affairs and Human Security, University of Baltimore
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Postgraduate Associate at the Institute of Latin American Studies, La Trobe University
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Professor of Sociology, Tulane University
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PhD student of law, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)
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Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Director of Studies at the Changing Character of War Centre, and Senior Research Fellow, Dept. of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
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Co-Director, Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, and Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York