SOUTH AMERICA

‘Political and social instability has already cost dozens of lives’

‘Civil society is an important pillar in work with the migrant population’

‘Lack of regular migration status imposes barriers to accessing rights’

Brazil: danger averted

Transition process underway following narrow defeat of far-right incumbent by broad coalition under leftist leadership

Brazil: world awaits pivotal presidential runoff vote

Close result expected after polarising campaign

‘If Bolsonaro continues as president, it is a threat to the Amazon and therefore to humanity’

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

Chile’s constitutional process: back to square one?

An urgent need to rethink the way forward as keeping the old authoritarian constitution can’t be an option

‘The million-dollar question is how society will react if a new constitution does not come out of this’

Colombia’s historic left turn

Gustavo Petro becomes country’s first leftist president, and Francia Márquez its first female and Afro-Colombian vice-president

Ecuador: protests over or only on hold?

Negotiations bring uneasy truce after more than two weeks of protests but divisions remain

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT