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Brazil's politics

Prisons in Latin America

Haitian history

Investor-state arbitration

Ecuador's politics

Muzzled

The president continues to restrict freedom of the press(2)

Hugo Chávez's Venezuela

Spilling over

An oil spill bodes ill for the president’s re-election campaign(5)

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Latin lessons

The former central-bank governors of Argentina and Mexico explain why Greece should not leave the euro

Americas view

Our blog on Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada 

What we're reading

Reckoning with a genocide in Guatemala (The Atlantic)
A war-crimes trial in a culture of impunity

The loneliness of the Guyanas (Opinionator)
Why South America's Caribbean coast is full of border disputes

Reversal of fortune (New Yorker)
Did a crusading lawyer go too far in helping Ecuadorans secure a huge environmental judgment against Chevron?

Iran tries to gain sway in Latin America (Wall Street Journal)
The mullahs test the Monroe doctrine 

Highlights
Race in Brazil

Affirming a divide

Black Brazilians are much worse off than they should be. But what is the best way to remedy that?

Publishing in Latin America

A literary deficit

Brazil apart, publishers are struggling to persuade the growing middle class to read more books

The Economist’s 2011 Mexico summit

Change from the bottom up

Highlights from our Mexico conference

Obituary

Sócrates

The Brazilian footballer and political agitator died on December 4th

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