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  • Monday, 1 March, 2021
    El Salvador
    Election consolidates power of El Salvador’s authoritarian president

    Allies of rightwing populist Nayib Bukele win landslide victory and take control of parliament

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    Petrobras row heaps pressure on Brazil’s free-market finance chief

    Bolsonaro’s move to replace head of state-run oil company viewed as snub to Paulo Guedes

  • Thursday, 25 February, 2021
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    Ousted Petrobras chief hits back at Bolsonaro

    Outgoing chief says potential intervention in fuel prices would be disastrous for oil group

  • Thursday, 25 February, 2021
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    Mexico’s sexual misconduct scandals engulf president’s party

    Accusations against veteran politician Félix Salgado Macedonio cause widespread outrage

  • Tuesday, 23 February, 2021
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    Bolsonaro’s ousting of Petrobras chief unnerves Brazil

    Investors worry that the president is abandoning his commitment to free-market reforms

  • Tuesday, 23 February, 2021
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    Inoculation campaign is the most successful in South America so far

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    Oil group Petrobras plunged into turmoil after CEO’s dismissal

    Investors fear the return of political meddling at Brazil’s largest company

  • Monday, 22 February, 2021
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    Brazilian markets rattled by Bolsonaro’s removal of Petrobras chief

    Oil producer’s shares fall and currency slides over fears of more state intervention

  • Monday, 22 February, 2021
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    Alberto Fernández, Latin America’s unlikely leader

    Undeterred by dire economy, Argentina’s president seeks bigger regional role

  • Sunday, 21 February, 2021
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    Colombia’s treatment of Venezuelan refugees is a global model

    Giving the world’s 80m displaced people access to broad social rights can be a win-win solution for all

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    Guillermo Lasso will take on leftwinger Andrés Arauz but Yaku Pérez supporters dispute result

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    Deaths surge in Mexico as pandemic extracts a heavy toll

    Covid-19 tsar says his conscience is clear despite one of the world’s highest excess death rates

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    Cocaine: Colombia weighs a new aerial war on drugs

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    Rightwing populist president intends to replace head of oil producer with army general

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    Ginés González García personally helped get jabs for government allies

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    A continuing regulatory ban on the secondary market trading of Venezuelan bonds risks balkanising global capital markets.

  • Thursday, 18 February, 2021
    Peru
    Peru’s political elite ensnared in ‘Vacuna-gate’ scandal

    Two ministers have resigned after revelations that hundreds received jabs ahead of schedule

  • Wednesday, 17 February, 2021
    Brazil
    Brazil’s coronavirus vaccine rollout beset by supply problems

    Rio de Janeiro and several other cities to suspend some jabs because of shortages

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