SOUTH AMERICA

Brazil: world awaits pivotal presidential runoff vote

Close result expected after polarising campaign

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

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

Peru’s oil spill raises corporate accountability questions

Campaigners call on oil giant Repsol to take full responsibility

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

Chile: winds of change for LGBTQI+ rights

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

Colombia rides the green wave

Constitutional Court judgment on abortion rights rewards feminist activism

Chile at the crossroads between past and future

Student leader turned president carries expectations of change

Ecuador: political turmoil far from over

New president faces rough ride as progressive Indigenous political movement rises

Peru: time to break the pattern?

New government promises change – if it survives