Multimedias

Special Section A closer look at the leading candidates in this year’s presidential elections   * Not expected to be democratic   IDEOLOGY AQ asked a dozen nonpartisan experts on Latin America to help us identify where each candidate stands on two spectrums: left wing versus right wing, and nationalist versus globalist. We’ve published the … Read more

As Colombians prepare to vote in a new president in 2018, we asked a group of experts, politicians and everyday people: What should be the next president’s first priority?

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SHARE:   A Tale of Two Colombias by Brendan O’Boyle Colombia has transformed dramatically from the bad old days of the 1980s and ’90s. In midsize cities throughout the country, fast-growing populations are safer, more prosperous, and have better access to basic services than at any time in recent memory. But for the 25 percent … Read more

A country-by-country look at the region’s long history of involuntary presidential departures.

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President No Longer by Brendan O’Boyle WHEN BRAZIL’S DILMA ROUSSEFF WAS IMPEACHED IN 2016, it was the latest example of how Latin American presidents don’t always finish their terms. A recent academic study compiled so-called involuntary departures across the region since 1900, and found they are becoming more common again. Of the 12 impeachments or … Read more

    What’s the biggest issue facing youth in your country? At a time of increased opportunities — but also challenges — for young people in Latin America, weasked activists, members of Congress, journalistsand everyday people that question. Here are their answers:       Clarissa Giron  Dominican Republic Delinquency due to a lack of education and work (opportunities). … Read more

Behind the Chilean “Malaise” By Brendan O’Boyle DESPITE YEARS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH, Chileans are frustrated. Inequality abounds, and young people feel stunted by high education costs. For example, a 2009 study found students in Chile’s largest loan program had an average debt-to-annual-income ratio of 174 percent. Statistics like these show a nuanced picture of Chile’s … Read more

  Top U.S. Trade Partners in Latin America By Rachelle Krygier The United States trades more with its southern neighbor than with all of Central and South America combined. Of Washington’s top 10 trade partners in Latin America, all but four (Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador) have a trade deficit with the U.S. But bilateral … Read more

With protectionist policies already changing the U.S.-Mexico dynamic, we asked experts, politicians, executives, activists and everyday people: What should be the future of the U.S.–Mexico relationship?       Erick Aguilar  Brownwood, Texas They should work to protect their own citizens from all the government corruption BEFORE they meddle in USA’s laws. Samuel Benitez  Mexico … Read more

by Brendan O’Boyle   The U.S.-Mexico relationship is defined by incredible exchange. Nowhere is this clearer than at the nearly 2,000-mile-long border, where more than $1 billion in goods crosses daily. Workers, studentsand consumers also legally cross the border an estimated 1 million times every day at dozens of different ports of entry. Meanwhile, close … Read more

  From a farm in North Carolina to an oil pipeline in Veracruz,U.S.-Mexico integration stretches far beyond the border itself.       Agua Prieta, Sonora American photographer and peace activist Raechel Running uses her art and essays to give a voice to people with roots on both sides of the border.Here she stands in … Read more

Photo Essay Afro-Latin Religion African and African-inspired religions in Latin America and the Caribbean are as diverse as the region itself. But as you will see in these pages, many of them share rituals, beliefs, language and even veneration of the same gods—revealing common origins in Western Africa. To celebrate the United Nations’ International Decade … Read more