The Americas
Mosquito-borne illness
Dengue fever is surging in Latin America
The number of people who succumb to the disease has been rising for two decades
Latin America’s tech superstar
Meet Argentina’s richest man
The boss of Mercado Libre ponders Javier Milei, self-doubt and the dangers of wokery
The Glas affair
Why Ecuador risked global condemnation to storm Mexico’s embassy
Jorge Glas, who had claimed asylum from Mexico, is accused of abetting drug networks
The sticky stuff
The world’s insatiable appetite for Canada’s maple syrup
Production is booming, but climate change is making output more erratic
Musk v Moraes
Elon Musk is feuding with Brazil’s powerful Supreme Court
The court has become the de facto regulator of social media in the country
The first small steps
Haiti’s transitional government must take office amid gang warfare
Only after it is installed can an international security force be deployed to the country
The great green rivalry
Chinese green technologies are pouring into Latin America
That is prompting anxiety in the United States about security, coercion and competition
Falling felling
Brazil and Colombia are curbing destruction of Amazon rainforest
Tree loss in South America fell by almost a quarter in 2023, compared with the year before
A house divided
Justin Trudeau is beset by a divided party and an angry electorate
After almost a decade in power, Canada’s prime minister looks beleaguered
Feeling the heat
South American vineyards brace for tricky summers ahead
Climate change is hurting the wine regions of Chile and Argentina
The Anti-communist International
Latin America’s new hard right: Bukele, Milei, Kast and Bolsonaro
Crime, abortion and socialism, not immigration, are the issues that rile them
Not another one
Nicolás Maduro’s sham election: the sequel
Venezuela’s unpopular president is reusing a familiar script