Brazilians paint streets to celebrate World Cup after deadly police raid: ‘Why not transform this place?’ | Brazil

Months ago, the street was covered with dozens of bodies laid out on blue tarpaulins and black plastic sheets: victims of Rio de Janeiro’s deadliest day, when 122 people were killed in... Read more »

Two years on, Argentina still searches for answers in missing child case

June 13, 2024, was the last day five-year-old Loan Danilo Peña was seen alive.  The boy vanished after travelling with his father to his grandmother Catalina’s home in the rural community of... Read more »

Colombia Palm Oil Meets EU Deforestation Rules

Colombia · Trade Key Facts —The boom. Colombian palm oil exports jumped about 44% in the first quarter of 2026, with bananas and coffee also surging. —The producer. Colombia is Latin America’s... Read more »

Artificial Intelligence and natural stupidity

T he bill still awaits Congress approval but President Javier Milei has proposed granting legal status to companies peopled (or “non-peopled”) by creations of Artificial Intelligence. In just three weeks time the... Read more »

Brazil and Morocco face off at MetLife Stadium as World Cup action continues

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Brazil and Morocco face off at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and Qatar spoiled a dominant day by Switzerland in a 1-1 draw Saturday... Read more »

It’s a small World (Cup) II: The geopolitics of football

The World Cup is now up and running with four of its 104 matches already played by the time this newspaper reaches the breakfast table, including all three hosts. Not that we... Read more »

10 insights into navigating São Paulo, Brazil’s vibrant, ambitious megacity

There has been a Monocle tour of South and Central America over the past 12 days that has seen two colleagues and I journey from Montevideo in Uruguay to Guatemala City, where... Read more »

The Milei siblings are losing soldiers, fast

The Milei siblings, Javier and Karina, built a popular movement literally from scratch. In a country as bureaucratic and politically structured as Argentina, they managed to achieve the impossible and reach the... Read more »

Brazil reports drop in Amazon deforestation rates, pushing back on US tariff accusations

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks in front of a screen displaying a 61.4% decrease in Amazon deforestation compared with May 2025 during a visit to the Amazon Regional Observatory... Read more »

Donald Trump and his Ukrainian bête noire

Over 15 months have gone by since Donald Trump and J. D. Vance bushwacked Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office, where the two subjected him to a verbal mugging because he was... Read more »