SOUTH AMERICA

ECUADOR: ‘Criminalisation serves as a deterrent, seeking to discipline others’

Gabriela Panchana | ECUADOR

VENEZUELA: ‘We started clearing the rubble with our bare hands because we knew the state wasn’t coming’

anonymous | VENEZUELA

CONFLICT | CRISIS

VENEZUELA: ‘Now the emergency phase is over, the long-term needs are beginning’

Reynaldo Olivar and Izumi Viloria | VENEZUELA

CONFLICT | CRISIS

PARAGUAY: ‘Transparency should strengthen democracy, not turn criticism of those in power into a cause for suspicion’

Hugo González | PARAGUAY

BOLIVIA: ‘In times of crisis, civil society can provide the calm that politics and the streets have lost’

Daniel Moreno | BOLIVIA

ECUADOR: ‘Defending rights should not be a high-risk activity’

Mauricio Alarcón | ECUADOR

PERU: ‘For 20 years, voters have had to choose the lesser of two evils’

David Hidalgo | PERU

PERU: ‘If authorities once again ignore the popular will, accumulated discontent could trigger a new outbreak’

anonymous | PERU

PERU: ‘The adult public and the mainstream press ridiculed our protests’

Jackelinne Ponce Paredes | PERU

VENEZUELA: ‘The credit goes to detainees’ families, human rights organisations and the international community’

Manuel Virgüez | VENEZUELA