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A call to arms 2.0

In Colombia, a FARC splinter group has announced rearmament. But that doesn’t mean the end of the peace process

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The global footprint of right-wing populists

The triumph of the right is changing the world order. And Bolsonaro's Brazil is at the forefront of it all

By Katharina Hofmann De Moura

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'Women are the perfect instrument for the neoliberal system'

Former Chilean presidential candidate Beatriz Sánchez on feminism, climate change and left-wing politics in Latin America

By Beatriz Sánchez

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A bad deal?

Civil society looks at the EU-Mercosur free trade agreement as a defeat, not a victory — and now France threatens to block it

By Susanne Stollreiter

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Bolsonaro’s honeymoon cancelled

A divided cabinet, youth protests and corruption scandals: Brazil's right-wing government comes under pressure

By Claudia Zilla

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'Civil war is possible'

Left-wing intellectual Edgardo Lander on the political crisis in Venezuela, the role of the US and the left's failure to learn

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An unholy alliance

Across Latin America, the military's gaining power and moving into politics – with support of Christian fundamentalist groups

By Sandra Weiss

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From revolutionary to tyrant

The writer and freedom fighter Gioconda Belli on the transformation of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega

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'Colombia could become a target of retaliation'

Kristina Birke Daniels on why intervention in Venezuela would destabilise its closest neighbour and endanger the peace process

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From left to right

Nayib Bukele switched parties – and won El Salvador's Presidency. Joachim Schlütter wonders whether this political manoeuvering will prepare him for Trump