Commentary and Analysis

Milei’s appeal draws attention to an acute problem facing democracies around the world: Good governance and good politics don’t always align.

Though the protection of the Amazon is a top global priority, drugs and deforestation are increasingly linked as threats to the world's largest rainforest.

After decades of research, Brazil has led experiments to recuperate degraded rainforest and help ranchers produce more without toppling any more forest.

The controversial legislation would overrule ancestral land claims by native communities, which could increase development in the Amazon.

US sanctions on Latin American countries have exacerbated the worsening economic and political conditions behind the current migrant surge.

“Unmitigated AI could deepen social, economic, and digital cleavages between and within countries,” warns Robert Muggah with Ilona Szabó.

Childhood malnutrition has lifelong consequences for individuals and the global community. Here’s what you can do to help.

Many Latin American and Caribbean countries are in the grip of a crime epidemic as international drug trafficking surges with cocaine production.

Existing barriers between rural and urban areas, and young and old farmers perpetuates an information divide in agriculture that a young cattle farmer is trying to reconcile.

"At best, one could say that US policy toward Latin America is a piecemeal and inconsistent amalgam of sporadic attempts at engagement," Paul Poast writes.