Latin America

Winners and Losers in Brazil’s Presidential Impeachment

Is there a political coup underway?

  • Gianpaolo Baiocchi

Chasing Lula

Bias and due process violations in Brazil’s massive corruption investigation.

  • Leonardo Avritzer

What You Put In Your Mouth

A new anthology creates a new canon of innovative Latin@ writing

  • Rachel Galvin

The Volatile I

Alejandra Pizarnik’s poetry finally gets the English translation it deserves.

  • Johannes Göransson

Cuba After the Thaw

Worsening Inequality for Afro-Cubans and Women

  • Michelle Chase

Archipelagos of Experience

Translating Southeaster by Haroldo Conti.

  • Jessica Sequeira

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The Americans Are Coming

Traveling to Cuba after revised White House policies.

  • Sarah Hill

Life Sings with Many Voices

Eduardo Galeano began as a propagandist, convinced of a single dogmatic truth. He became an artist.

  • Nathan J. Robinson

Dead Man Talking

Brazil's Spiritists Redefine Religion

  • Laura Premack

Cuba’s Long Memory

What to expect from the renewed relations.

  • Alan West-Duran

Paradise

A quarter of Costa Rican landmass has been given over to national parks.

  • Matthew Fishbane

On Pablo Neruda and Autism

A conversation with Adam Feinstein.

  • Jessica Sequeira

The American “Deportation Mill”

Immigrant families detained in Artesia, New Mexico, are suing the U.S. government

  • Lauren Carasik

Stalin’s Long Shadow

On Leonardo Padura’s The Man Who Loved Dogs.

  • Michelle Chase

People v. Dole

Dole used a pesticide that rendered banana workers sterile. Why is it so hard to litigate?

  • Susanna Bohme

Cultural Cannibal

The journalism of Gabriel García Márquez.

  • Jessica Sequeira

The Pacification of Rio, as Observed from a Gondola

Thanks to the teleférico, tourists can comfortably gawk at Brazil's poor.

  • Amy Moran-Thomas

The Gun Library

An Ethic of Crime in São Paulo

  • Graham Denyer Willis

Frank Lima, 1939–2013

Is there any more hopeful and heartening life story in American poetry than that of Frank Lima?

  • Nico Alvarado

Political Hatred in Argentina

Guardian journalist Uki Goñi discusses his career reporting from Buenos Aires.

  • Jessica Sequeira

Rodolfo Walsh and the Struggle for Argentina

Before In Cold Blood, there was Operation Massacre.

  • Stephen Phelan

Raúl’s Cuba

Raúl is not the same as his brother, but the democratic movement that Cuba needs still is not coming any time soon.

  • Samuel Farber

High in Uruguay

The South American Country May Soon Be the First in the World to Officially Cultivate and Distribute Marijuana

  • Michelle García

Justice Postponed in Guatemala

Ríos Montt—and the United States—evade reckoning with the past.

  • Lauren Carasik
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