The Americas

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

Mexican politics
Claudia Sheinbaum will inherit a poisoned chalice in Mexico
Her predecessor’s last act is a dangerous overhaul of the constitution

Hamstringing justice
Electing top judges has been a disaster in Bolivia
The fight over the courts has poisoned politics

X is banned in Brazil
The all-powerful judge taking on Elon Musk
Is the legal cure of banning X worse than the disease?

Canada’s rising populist
Canada’s Conservatives are crushing Justin Trudeau
Pierre Poilievre is even winning over the young and the unionised

Still stolen
Nicolás Maduro digs in with the help of a pliant Supreme Court
His inner circle is another barrier to compromise

The rule of law in Mexico
AMLO’s dangerous last blast threatens Mexico
The outgoing president will use his last month in power to change the constitution


Mexico’s incoming president (2)
Confused and dirty: Claudia Sheinbaum’s energy plan
She cannot boost renewables while propping up the state oil and power giants