SOUTH AMERICA

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

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

CONFLICT | CRISIS

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

CONFLICT | CRISIS

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

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

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

Peru: a knife-edge election and an ongoing crisis

New president may choose to tackle systemic political instability by taking an authoritarian turn

Colombia: polarisation the winner

As runoff approaches, the peace agreement and fossil fuel transition are under threat

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

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