Americas

Brazil's economy

• Employer, beware
  

  An archaic labour code penalises firms and workers alike (28)

• • • Listen to an interview with our correspondent
    • (9)
  • • Not yet the world's fifth-largest economy
    • (10)
  • • This year's hot market for alternative investments
    • (32)
  • • Topic page: Brazil

Colombia's politics

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  Bogotá's rise and fall

  Enrique Peñalosa leads the mayoral race (17)

• • • Juan Manuel Santos tries diplomacy
    • (5)
  • • Panama grants asylum to a former Colombian spy chief
    • (5)
  • • A cleanup of the asset-confiscation agency
    • (6)
  • • Topic page: Colombia

Mexico's film industry

• Bungled censorship on the silver screen

  A documentary is banned and un-banned (4)

• • • More films, more subsidies, elusive profits
    • (3)
  • • A new home for Zorro and Pancho Villa
  • • Topic page: Filmmaking

Caribbean music

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  Still going strong

  Is Trinidad's Carnival "the greatest show on earth"? (1)

• • • Bad news for Buju Banton
    • (2)
  • • Topic page: Music

The coup in Honduras

• Why a pariah may return

  Many now want Manuel Zelaya to come home (10)

• • • The new government is doing better abroad than at home
    • (8)
  • • Picking up the post-coup pieces
    • (38)
  • • Porfirio Lobo wins the election
    • (29)
  • • Topic page: Honduras

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