They are cheap, nimble and provide employment, but at a deadly cost

   The Bolsonaro clan and its allies have swept the country’s general election

   But corruption and poor infrastructure may hold growth back

   Ana Lankes, our Brazil bureau chief, on how a family plagued by scandal staged a comeback in Brazil

   Voters are all but sure to make Flávio Bolsonaro the next president

   Some worry about the army’s ever expanding role in the state

   Donald Trump’s immigration curbs have changed the movement of people throughout a hemisphere

   Donald Trump’s interventions are unpopular, but tough talk on security resonates

   He hopes it will improve health care and education, and buoy up his popularity

   Their rapport bodes ill for Venezuelan democracy

   His Europe trip was one part of a bigger plan

   They are powerful, conservative, and green

   Crime is softer, but it affects more Brazilians than ever before

   They survive on what men discard, and are exploited by them

   Brazil’s top court saved the country’s young democracy. Now it is strangling it through corruption

   In an interview with The Economist, Argentina’s president is unyielding

   In an interview with The Economist, Argentina’s president stirs up tensions with Britain

   Ecuador’s farmers have embraced technology to great effect

   Renan Santos, a fast-talking liberal with a rock band, models himself after Argentina’s Javier Milei

   The deal could give both countries reason to forestall a democratic transition

   The burial rituals of a culture that thrived 7,000 years ago have ramifications today

   It is warping the neutrality which protects the country’s canal

   But the waiting game is Mark Carney’s only move

   Why Guaranà has become trendy in Paraguay

   Why the South American country dominates the sport

   A too-weak president can be a threat to democracy, too

   That is sensible in a newly volatile hemisphere

   Maria Corina Machado’s absence does not mean they will fail

   The new president, Abelardo de la Espriella, took office three days before it struck

   Lula hopes to secure a fourth term by beating Flávio Bolsonaro

   Canadians are starting to turn against Mark Carney’s pragmatic response

   Voters are disillusioned with the apparent choice between Lula and the son of a jailed former president

   Claudia Sheinbaum has abandoned her cool demeanour as Donald Trump attacks her political party

   He is wisely overhauling the central bank. But winning elections remains paramount

   And how Mark Carney’s immigration curbs threaten the model

   Donald Trump’s capriciousness has pushed Canada’s military spending towards Europe

   But it is unclear what the rocketing number of prosecutions is achieving

   The Central American country may become a one-party state

   Thank central banks and savvy handouts

   Alessandro Ford, a Latin America contributor, explains why the rivalry runs deeper than the game

   But his tariff assault on Pix just makes Brazilians love it and Lula more

   And the challenges to it are getting more acute

   The industry has a seedy underbelly

   The two countries have not played each other in over two decades

   The frontier complicates disagreements between indigenous groups

   Can they combat the country’s biggest security threats?

   Can it keep its plans on track?

   They think China has better tech than America

   It uses them more intensively than anywhere in the world

   But only if they actually go ahead