The extinction threat you haven’t heard of: several South American birds teeter on the brink of existence due to habitat loss. And history is not the best guide for how to save them.
At Parque de la Memoria, Obama and Macri pay tribute to victims of the dictatorship.
EPA/David Fernandez
Colombia has set up a new peace process to secure justice for hundreds of thousands of victims of the FARC. But it’s tried and failed at this approach before.
The faces of 21 people tried for involvement in kidnapping, torture and murder at a dictatorship-era detention centre.
Reuters/Enrique Marcarian
With roots in post first world war paintings of empty European cities, magical realism has evolved into a heavily, and ironically, political literary form.
With anti-corruption feeling at an all-time high, a populist comedian has swept to power in Guatemala, while Brazil’s president is facing furious calls for impeachment.
Not there yet: Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and the man lined up to follow her, Daniel Scioli.
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Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Director of Studies at the Changing Character of War Centre, and Senior Research Fellow, Dept. of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
Co-Director, Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, and Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York