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

   But the earthquakes could give it an excuse to keep putting off elections

   Our correspondent in Caracas reports on how disaster is testing an already fragile country

   The catastrophe could give the regime another excuse to put off elections

   In our bonus edition, Richard Cockett, a senior editor, explains why now is a timely moment to revisit the events that brought Fidel Castro to power

   The impoverished country is struggling to cope with the damage from two nearly simultaneous shocks

   It won’t be a pushover

   Such tightly sequenced quakes are rare

   Real problems, copycattery and a network of hacks have helped Donald Trump’s pals win a string of elections

   Claire McQue, a Latin America contributor, reports from Bogotá on why voters embraced a tough-talking political outsider

   Abelardo de la Espriella promises an iron fist and economic miracles

   But not in Russia

   Algorithms, not debates, will determine the country’s next president

   No one has ever been elected president in Brazil without carrying Minas Gerais

   Angry locals are trying to shut them down

   Peru, looking for its ninth president in a decade, is in a tight spot

   Donald Trump, who says the government is too weak to combat the drug gangs, will be watching

   To lift their blockades, they want the centrist president, Rodrigo Paz, to resign

   The right-wing populist outperformed in the first round of a deeply divisive election

   Blame social media, populist politicians and falling trust in institutions

   Even if the island were not burdened by embargoes and communism it would be a poor investment prospect

   All the options are fraught

   A Trump-loving populist is rising fast

   It is spending heavily to revive the country’s medical-industrial complex

   Rodrigo Paz inherited a broken economy. It is getting harder and harder to fix