General Mourão downplays Brazil president-elect’s confrontational foreign policy views

Roberto Campos Neto set to carry on the work of Ilan Goldfajn

Eduardo Guardia calls for urgent fiscal reforms to avoid return to recession and unrest

Brazil’s president-elect appoints key cabinet positions

Country makes steady progress in World Bank rankings while rest of Latin America falls behind

Paulo Guedes is targeting free market reforms similar to those of ‘Chicago boys’ in 1970s Chile

President-elect looking to imitate much of the agenda of ‘great ally’ Donald Trump

Voters protest corruption and economic decline in Latin America’s biggest country

After reaching intraday record, stocks retreat as new president faces economic challenge

Catch up on the rise of the former army captain and his country’s answer to Donald Trump

Markets have rallied on incoming president’s promise of liberal economic reforms

Central America is a mess. Local elites are partly to blame but so, too, is the US

Candidate has gay, black and female supporters despite rhetoric criticised as hate speech

Anti-immigration rhetoric and policies ramped up ahead of US midterm elections

Polls show Workers’ Party presidential candidate fighting losing battle against Bolsonaro

President-elect López Obrador wants the nation to decide the fate of the controversial $13.3bn city airport

Electorate pins faith in former army captain to offer fresh start after wave of corruption scandals

López Obrador wants US-funded development programme to staunch flow from Central America

Guido Sandleris says it is ‘too soon’ to declare that stability has returned to peso