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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

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Venezuela's tipping point

Michael Langer reports from Caracas about the political crisis in the country — and the chances for a peaceful resolution

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The mafia fights back

The UN-backed International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala is becoming a victim of its own success

By Sandra Weiss

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AMLO: a new hope for Latin America?

Svenja Blanke on the inauguration of the new Mexican president Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador

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Left un-splintered

How Uruguay's Frente Amplio, a coalition of 40 progressive forces, defies the right-wing assault on Latin America

By Sebastian Sperling

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Bolsonaro: the end of Brazilian democracy?

Brazil now has the most extremist president of any democratic nation. What this means for the country

By Thomas Manz

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Bible, Beef and Bullets

What a victory of Jair Messias Bolsonaro would mean for democracy in Brazil and the whole of Latin America

By Pablo Stefanoni

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Beyond Maduro

Why Latin American left-wing populism is much more complex than the failing government of Venezuela

By Jonas Wolff