Americas

French-Mexican diplomacy

• The Cassez case comes to a head
  

  A kidnapping sentence poisons relations between France and Mexico (5)

• • • France's "Year of Mexico" festival
    • Institut Français
  • • Topic page: France
  • • Topic page: Mexico

Canada's politics

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  The circumspect and circumscribed Conservative

  Can Stephen Harper remake his country? (34)

• • • A tool for linguistically joined-up government
    • (8)
  • • A split in Canada’s most powerful right-wing machine
    • (16)
  • • Corruption in Quebec
    • (15)
  • • Topic page: Canada

Cuban-American relations

• The salami technique

  How Barack Obama could dismantle the embargo (6)

• • • Helping Cubans to help themselves
    • (11)
  • • The liberalisation of travel restraints is formalised
    • (2)
  • • A familiar mistrust descends
    • (20)
  • • Topic page: Cuba

Brazil's energy industry

• Don't mention the B-word

  Hungry for power (32)

• • • Spending the profits from offshore oil wisely will be hard
    • (80)
  • • The company faces high costs
    • (8)
  • • Ethanol's mid-life crisis
    • (23)
  • • Topic page: Brazil

Crime in the Caribbean

• In the shadow of the gallows

  Trinidad debates the death penalty (7)

• • • The islands recruit foreign police
    • (5)
  • • Christopher Coke turns himself in
  • • Why the roots of Jamaica's mafias run so deep
    • (8)
  • • Topic page: Capital punishment

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• Social media and politics

  Was it something I tweeted?

  An unfortunate mistaken tweet (0)

• Food in Mexico

  Centéotl's pricier feast

  The tortilla-makers cry wolf (7)

• Politics in Argentina

  Down among the underclass

  A prelude to a dirty campaign (14)