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A crisis of historic proportions

Michael Langer in Caracas on the situation following the attempted assassination of President Maduro

FES / Reiner Zensen

‘All eyes on Colombia!’

Kurt Beck, Chairman of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, asks the international community to pay attention to the peace process

EPA

The long road to peace in Colombia

Former Farc paramilitary turned politician Victoria Sandino talks about the difficulties of the Colombian peace process

EPA

Road trip

What will be the environmental, economic and social footprint of Chinese involvement in Latin America?

By Claudia Detsch

EPA

‘A decade’s worth of frustration’ in Nicaragua

In Nicaragua, resistance is raging against the authoritarian system of the one-time freedom fighters

EPA

Social programmes, not soldiers, are what's needed in Brazil

Brazil’s President has put the military in charge of Rio de Janeiro. Is this an attempt to deflect attention from the nation’s wider problems?

By Katharina Hofmann De Moura and Thomas Manz

EPA

Latin America’s bonanza election year

Everything you need to know about the upcoming elections in South and Central America

By Claudia Detsch

EPA

Let a hundred businesses bloom

China is investing heavily in Latin America, but benefits to the continent may prove negligible

By Sandra Weiss

EPA

Politics one, justice nil

A 12-years sentence for Brazil’s ex-president Lula is based on smear, not fact, says Niels Annen

EPA

Rough justice

The trial against Brazil's Lula da Silva is politically motivated and based on flimsy evidence

By Herta Däubler-Gmelin