Many of Operation Condor’s crimes remain shrouded in impunity and silence, 50 years after its creation.
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One of Latin America’s smallest nations has a robust network of housing cooperatives, which give access to permanent, affordable housing to citizens at a range of income levels.
Poorer states, like Rwanda and Burundi, have economic incentives for maintaining peacekeeping armies.
‘The Society of Snow’, the new film directed by Juan Antonio Bayona which closes the Venice Film Festival, is a new adaptation of the story of a plane crash in the Andes and its survivors.
Argentina has convicted more people for its dictatorship-era crimes than Uruguay has.
Countries across the Americas are tweaking their census to better understand their population, allowing them to create more responsive policies. The US still has a ways to go.
When it comes to leadership and innovation, there’s much that industrialised nations can learn.
The proposed EU-Mercosur deal would guarantee cheap beef and lock in further deforestation. But our new research shows it is possible to transform trade for the better.
Latin America now has about 6 million COVID-19 cases – 30% of the global total. But some cities have fared much worse than others, largely due to the quality of government and community responses.
Nearly every country in the world shuttered its schools due to COVID-19. Now, from Israel to Uruguay, many students are back in class, with varying degrees of success.
Pandemic devastation surrounds it on all sides, but tiny Uruguay has COVID-19 under control – just the latest win for a country that’s always stood out.
Latin American history shows that sending out troops to quell unrest is a perilous move even in strong democracies. Usually, protesters die. Sometimes, the end result is authoritarianism rule.
Progressives are leading in the presidential elections of Argentina, Uruguay and Bolivia, bucking the region’s recent rightward trend. But there are lessons in the failures of leftists past.
While other Latin American countries like Argentina and Brazil led the way on reforming legal protections for domestic workers, Mexico looked the other way.
As South American countries recover from a massive blackout, the US isn’t immune: The Northeast Blackout of 2003 cut power to 50 million people, and many threats to the electricity grid remain.
New research on Latin America’s four recent female presidents disproves the idea that merely putting a woman in power will improve gender equality.
As government representatives meet at the WHO global conference on noncommunicable diseases in Uruguay this week, their focus should be on reducing the health impacts of trade deals.
Many in the US are celebrating LGBTQ rights for Gay Pride Month. But data show that most countries, including the US, need to do much more to protect sexual minorities.
The Uruguayan government’s victory over Philip Morris should embolden other countries to introduce stronger tobacco-control policies.
The UK may have signed the UN drugs convention – with its emphasis on prohibition – but that doesn’t mean it can’t legalise the drug.
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Associate Professor in International Relations of the Americas, UCL
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Associate Professor of Politics, Occidental College
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Professor of Public Affairs and Faculty Director of the Center on Women, Gender and Public Policy, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
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