FILE - Opposition leader María Corina Machado holds up tally sheets during a protest against the reelection of President Nicolás Maduro one month after the disputed presidential vote which she says ...

South America has entered a period in which liberal democracy is becoming more visible, with geopolitical tensions escalating between Venezuela and the US on the one hand, and election processes ...

The populist wave that crashed over several Latin American countries not so long ago now may be retreating. Across the region, people are waking up to their rulers’ lies and misdeeds and rediscovering ...

The United States has a long and checkered history of intervening directly and indirectly in the politics, economies and social concerns of Latin American countries, stretching back more than a ...

Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro – who was this week convicted of plotting to overturn his country’s 2022 election and sentenced to more than 27 years in jail – is far from being the first ...

President Trump has launched a new era of U.S. intervention in Latin America. Some regional leaders are celebrating, while many others are deeply concerned. By Jack Nicas Jack Nicas has been a lead ...

Across Latin America, democracy is coming under severe pressure. Authoritarian leaders across the continent have been entrenching political power through constitutional manipulation, militarised ...

President Trump’s toppling of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro has left a cloud of uncertainty across the region as the president issued threats against other Latin American leaders and pledged the ...

The Observatory on Latin America (OLA) fosters public debate about the processes of social reform occurring in the Western Hemisphere. Most of this work is done through five ongoing programs—Latin ...

Pia Riggirozzi have received funding from ESRC for the project Redressing Gendered Health Inequalities of Displaced Women and Girls in Contexts of Protracted Crisis in Central and South America ...