Americas

Brazil's new president

• Dilma's first big test
  

  The political wounding of the president’s right-hand man comes at an awkward time (7)

• • • Latin America’s biggest economy is more fragile than it appears
    • (22)
  • • How tough will Dilma be?
    • (17)
  • • 2011 in person: Dilma Rousseff
    • The World in 2011
  • • Topic page: Dilma Rousseff

Crime in Mexico

• Soul-searching amid the debris

  A book review on Mexican individualism and violence (4)

• • • What lessons do the city and state of Mexico offer on crime?
    • (10)
  • • Does taking out drug kingpins reduce violence?
    • (18)
  • • An interactive map of Mexico's security crisis
    • (36)
  • • Topic page: Mexico

Colombia's politics

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  Feeling their pain

  A new victims law is an attempt to heal past wounds (2)

• • • Bogotá's mayor is suspended in a corruption investigation
    • (5)
  • • Criminal gangs are the new threat
    • (5)
  • • Bogotá's rise and fall
    • (23)
  • • Topic page: Colombia

Peru's presidential campaign

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  No lesser evil

  Voters find it hard to choose between Keiko Fujimori and Ollanta Humala (5)

• • • The masses blow a raspberry
    • (19)
  • • The moderates' divisions may be their undoing
    • (17)
  • • The final debate is a draw
  • • Topic page: Peru

Ecuador's politics

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  Not over yet

  The opposition cries fraud in Ecuador's constitutional referendum

• • • The balance of powers hangs in the balance of a referendum
    • (5)
  • • Ecuador expels the American ambassador over a Wikileak
    • (8)
  • • Rafael Correa's controversial referendum will proceed
  • • Topic page: Ecuador

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