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The first female president of Brazil will likely build on her predecessor's legacy.

How Israel’s Gaza blockade and Washington’s sanctions policy helped keep the hardliners in power.

With the Olympics coming to town, the state seeks to reclaim the favelas.

Hugo Chávez on Barack Obama, the Honduran crisis, and domestic successes and challenges.

Hugo Chávez talks about his relationship with Barack Obama, the Honduran crisis, plans to extend the Pentagon's presence in Colombia, and domestic successes and challenges.

On paper Brazil's abortion ban has a rape exception, but in reality victims are denied choice.

Can Peruvian presidential hopeful Ollanta Humala shed his authoritarian
image and chart a new course for his country?

Latin America's new leftist leaders are making deals that threaten US
dominance in the region.

The World Social Forum in Caracas provided living proof of
alternative political and social visions, but raised new questions
about government co-optation.

Luis Inacio Lula da Silva came into power in 2002 on a wave of populist
support for an era of socialist politics and participatory democracy.
But da Silva has offered the people of Brazil a corrupt leadership
instead.