The Americas

Everyone’s a winner

Why is football in Latin America so complex?

Money-grubbing and regulatory capture explain its Byzantine leagues

World’s end

Peruvians are debating how to protect isolated tribes

Deaths in the Amazon are bringing matters to a head

A long shadow

Jair Bolsonaro still shapes Brazil’s political right

Would-be successors are pandering to his fans

Mexican politics

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is militarising public security

The latest constitutional reform will complicate the fight against drug gangs

Remote workers

Digital nomads are a force for good in Latin America

It is unfair to blame remote workers for gentrifying neighbourhoods and raising rents

Evelyn Matthei

The woman who will lead Chile’s counter-revolution

Chileans tried youthful utopianism. Now they crave maturity and moderation

Canadian politics

A by-election loss puts Justin Trudeau on the ropes

For how much longer can the Liberal leader hold on?

Who’s in charge?

How Brazilian lawmakers won extra powers to waste money

Congress’s capture of the budget is making Brazil less governable

Rainforest rewards

Can the voluntary carbon market save the Amazon?

Entrepreneurs in Brazil are betting big on planting trees

Blue gold

The sweet story of Peru’s blueberry boom

Plucky farmers have transformed the market in only ten years

Dark days

Venezuela’s opposition is getting smashed

Can it find any way to thrive?

No quick fix

Antony Blinken swoops into a violent hotspot close to home

In Haiti a new security force is aiming to suppress gang violence