Defeat in Panama leaves the Trump Organization with just one project in South America

Truth competes with fiction in Brazilian politics

Polls show that security is one of the main voter concerns in upcoming elections

Economic policy likely to hold to the middle whatever happens in presidential poll

Next government will have to unwind terrible distortions, including pensions

Military put in charge of Rio de Janeiro security after violence marred the revelry

Regional assets steady ahead of electoral season

The problem is not the timing of the vote but ensuring it is free and fair

Brazil awaits former president’s fate as a court decides on corruption case appeal

Trump’s immigration policy places future of tens of thousands of Salvadorans in doubt

Image highlights continuing divisions in Peru caused by an influential political family

A round-up of this year’s standout stories, from violence and turmoil to tales of hope

It is premature for the government of Michel Temer to celebrate

New appointment at state oil company is designed to keep the military sweet

Decrepitude of the country’s naval fleet has drawn understandable anger

Centre-left coalition in power for most of the period since Pinochet is finished

Crucial weekend for what many have billed the world’s most complex restructuring ever

Party is ready to browbeat opponents and able to dodge mounting corruption scandals 

Interest in martial arts and self-defence shows country remains a dangerous place

Events in supreme court suggest old habits die hard for country’s political class

Far-right nationalist congressman takes aim at crime