SOUTH AMERICA

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

‘People are tired of the long hegemony of political elites who are also economic elites’

Peru’s oil spill raises corporate accountability questions

Campaigners call on oil giant Repsol to take full responsibility

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

‘The drafting of the new constitution is a historic opportunity for women’

Chile: winds of change for LGBTQI+ rights

With the Equal Marriage Law, Chile begins to catch up to the times