How has Venezuela descended into its current state? This question will have been in the minds of many consumers of recent press coverage of Venezuela following the actions of the …

Political commentators have dubbed Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s President-elect, to be the ‘Trump of the topics’. Superficially there is some merit in this comparison, both men have enjoyed stoking controversy while …

Not unlike many presidents before him, US President Donald Trump has not made Latin America a priority of his foreign policy. With exception to the renegotiation of the North American …

In January, Pope Francis visited Chile and Peru in a trip which was overshadowed by controversy concerning sexual abuse cases and consequent cover-ups by the Church in these countries. However, …

On 13 December, representatives of Venezuela’s democratic opposition collected the EU’s prestigious Sakharov prize for human rights. The opposition, represented by a fractious coalition of political parties known as the …

In a report published in 2016, Human Rights Watch reported that police in the state of Rio de Janeiro had killed more than 8,000 people in the last decade. This …