The Americas

Hamstringing justice

Electing top judges has been a disaster in Bolivia

The fight over the courts has poisoned politics

X is banned in Brazil

The all-powerful judge taking on Elon Musk

Is the legal cure of banning X worse than the disease?

Canada’s rising populist

Canada’s Conservatives are crushing Justin Trudeau

Pierre Poilievre is even winning over the young and the unionised

Still stolen

Nicolás Maduro digs in with the help of a pliant Supreme Court

His inner circle is another barrier to compromise

The rule of law in Mexico

AMLO’s dangerous last blast threatens Mexico

The outgoing president will use his last month in power to change the constitution

Military Mileise

Javier Milei is splurging on the army

Many Argentines are asking why

Mexico’s incoming president (2)

Confused and dirty: Claudia Sheinbaum’s energy plan

She cannot boost renewables while propping up the state oil and power giants

Mexico’s incoming president (1)

Investors panicked after Mexico’s election. Were they right?

Claudia Sheinbaum takes over power on October 1st

Law of the jungle

A bold plan to close the deadly Darién Gap unravels

America and Panama struggle to control surging migration

The lawless roads

Peru’s crazy drivers offer a data deluge for self-driving cars

A startup sees value in the chaos of the country’s streets

Perfume of the Pacific

Colombia prepares for a vanilla boom

Purveyors of scented products and posh ice-creams take note

Venezuela’s election

How the mad, bad Maduro regime clings to power

Behind-the-scenes negotiations seek to ease him out of office