Kids who grew up in coca-growing areas were unusually likely to be imprisoned for murder as adults

France might have its star Kylian Mbappé, but Argentina has hundreds of “brujas” casting spells to protect Lionel Messi and the rest of its national squad.

His rise in Buenos Aires hints at disaffection with Peronism

The national team could teach its politicians a lesson

He has unorthodox ideas for reviving the economy. But his pugnacity and embrace of the far-right may do further damage to the country

Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American to win a Nobel Prize for literature, was long considered staid. A new generation is reclaiming her as an anti-establishment icon.

Being a Chile-watcher these days can be confusing. Since 2006 there have been huge protests every few years about disparate issues, from…

Many businesses are ripe for disruption

The radical libertarian gives an interview to The Economist

Now some politicians in Latin America and Europe are saying so publicly

The proposed constitution would enshrine some of the world’s most extensive Indigenous rights. But those reforms have become the focal point of the campaign to reject the new text.

The threat of violence hangs over Gustavo Petro’s election, win or lose

Chile has re-written its constitution, but voters aren’t happy

Voters are once again turning to politicians who promise radical change

Months before an election, the strongman turns on his rivals

Both are bad, though for different reasons

The Economist speaks to the man who could be the country’s first left-wing president

In sham elections on November 6th the ruling party won 153 out of 153 municipalities

The fortune of the presidential family in Nicaragua is handled as a state secret in the circles of the secretariat of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), twenty years after the last...

Voters in the region love influencers. But politicians are a harder sell than lipstick

Despite having the first Latin American pontiff, the region is becoming more evangelical as well as secular. That could polarise politics.

Listen to this episode from The Intelligence from The Economist on Spotify. As governments across South-East Asia crimp online freedoms, the region’s healthiest democracy might have been expected to...

It’s too early to tell; and based on the original pink tide, it might not be a good thing

The Economist habla con el que podría ser el primer presidente de izquierda del país

Now some politicians in Latin America and Europe are saying so publicly