South America Archive

A top Bolivian general attempted a coup, both a reassuring sign for the country’s democracy and a reminder of the challenges it continues to face.

President Javier Milei is leading an all-out attack on women’s rights and gender equality in Argentina. The country’s feminists are fighting back.

The only other regional leader Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa praises is on the opposite side of the political spectrum. That’s very telling.

Judicial elections that were supposed to have been held last year are now the crux of a power struggle in Bolivia’s ruling party.

Peru’s president and Congress are deeply unpopular. That’s not keeping them from undoing the country’s democracy.

Russia’s military exercises in the Caribbean, alongside Cuba and Venezuela, coincide with two overlapping challenges in the region.

Observers assume Maduro will try to stay in power at all costs if he loses. But that would be highly risky for him and his allies.