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

Dark days

Venezuela’s opposition is getting smashed

Can it find any way to thrive?

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

Military Mileise

Javier Milei is splurging on the army

Many Argentines are asking why

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