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  • Thursday, 11 February, 2021
    FT Magazine
    Brazil’s new frontier is transforming its fortunes — but at what cost?

    The western state of Mato Grosso is riding an agricultural boom, driven by China, faith and Bolsonaro

  • Wednesday, 27 January, 2021
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    Latin American companies step up where governments fall down

    Why some businesses are delivering social services in the world’s most unequal region

  • Friday, 22 January, 2021
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    Move to outlaw procedure forever comes after Argentina legalised termination on demand

  • Sunday, 27 December, 2020
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    Fernández administration seeks to get legislation past senate hurdle this week

  • Monday, 9 November, 2020
    Americas politics & policy
    Evo Morales makes triumphant return to Bolivia

    Ex-president met by cheering crowds as he re-enters his homeland after MAS party returns to power

  • Tuesday, 27 October, 2020
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    Rich residents map escape route from Argentina’s ‘money trap’

    Proposed wealth tax to help tackle poverty and inequality threatens to accelerate exodus to Uruguay

  • Wednesday, 7 October, 2020
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    Colombia after Covid-19

    Our correspondents on how one of Latin America’s oldest democracies is facing down its bloody past and meeting the challenges of the pandemic, upgrading its infrastructure and modernising its economy

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    Why meritocracy isn’t working

    As profession-based privilege supplants hereditary privilege, three new books champion essential blue-collar skills

  • Monday, 29 June, 2020
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  • Friday, 26 June, 2020
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    Health experts warn country is reopening too soon as authorities battle world’s second-worst outbreak

  • Wednesday, 17 June, 2020
    FT Wealth
    Latin America’s taxing problem

    Calls grow to make the rich pay more as Covid-19 drains public finances

  • Tuesday, 9 June, 2020
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    US protests bring Brazil’s inequality to the fore

    Parallels including a history of police brutality have touched a raw nerve

  • Wednesday, 27 May, 2020
    Poor Venezuelans protest as shortages stoke anger at Maduro

    Lack of water and electricity adds to misery in slums caused by coronavirus

  • Tuesday, 19 May, 2020
    Mexico
    Mexico City mayor denies undercounting virus deaths

    Think-tank report says the city’s real death toll is up to four times higher than reported

  • Monday, 18 May, 2020
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    Tech offers LatAm prospect of fairer healthcare

    Digital innovations aimed at improving access for region’s poorer communities

  • Friday, 15 May, 2020
    Argentina
    Old Argentines keep spirit of tango alive in the age of coronavirus

    Life-long practitioners of the sensual dance struggle under one of region’s strictest lockdowns

  • Friday, 15 May, 2020
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    Indigenous groups at risk as region emerges as flashpoint of pandemic in Brazil

  • Monday, 11 May, 2020
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    Unlike beer, the industry avoided shutdown after tipple was recognised as agricultural product

  • Monday, 27 April, 2020
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    Coronavirus set to push 29m Latin Americans into poverty

    Social damage could take 2 decades to repair, warns top UN official

  • Thursday, 23 April, 2020
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  • Friday, 27 March, 2020
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    Drug gangs in Brazil’s favelas enforce coronavirus lockdown

    Organised crime steps in as President Bolsonaro dismisses pandemic as ‘sniffles’

  • Thursday, 19 March, 2020
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    Bolsonaro and López Obrador draw fire for coronavirus response

    Brazil and Mexico leaders ignore medical advice while Latin America begins crackdown

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    Jair Bolsonaro
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  • Wednesday, 19 February, 2020
    News in-depthThe Big Read
    Venezuela: refugee crisis tests Colombia’s stability

    With the exodus set to continue, the strains on Bogotá and other governments are set to intensify

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