The Americas

Everyone’s a winner
Why is football in Latin America so complex?
Money-grubbing and regulatory capture explain its Byzantine leagues

World’s end
Peruvians are debating how to protect isolated tribes
Deaths in the Amazon are bringing matters to a head

A long shadow
Jair Bolsonaro still shapes Brazil’s political right
Would-be successors are pandering to his fans

Mexican politics
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is militarising public security
The latest constitutional reform will complicate the fight against drug gangs

Remote workers
Digital nomads are a force for good in Latin America
It is unfair to blame remote workers for gentrifying neighbourhoods and raising rents

Evelyn Matthei
The woman who will lead Chile’s counter-revolution
Chileans tried youthful utopianism. Now they crave maturity and moderation

Canadian politics
A by-election loss puts Justin Trudeau on the ropes
For how much longer can the Liberal leader hold on?

Who’s in charge?
How Brazilian lawmakers won extra powers to waste money
Congress’s capture of the budget is making Brazil less governable

Rainforest rewards
Can the voluntary carbon market save the Amazon?
Entrepreneurs in Brazil are betting big on planting trees

Blue gold
The sweet story of Peru’s blueberry boom
Plucky farmers have transformed the market in only ten years


No quick fix
Antony Blinken swoops into a violent hotspot close to home
In Haiti a new security force is aiming to suppress gang violence