The writer, formerly with Gateway House, Mumbai, is a Latin America expert currently working on a research project funded by Stanford University, US. He was in Brazil during this month’s protests.
Political outside, ‘anarcho-capitalist’ Javier Milei has won the Argentina presidential election. There are implications for the region, India and the world
Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s first woman head of state, has cleared her office at the Palácio do Planalto after a special Senate session voted to put her on an impeachment trial
President Cristina de Kirchner's handpicked successor, Daniel Scioli, governor of Buenos Aires province, faces Mauricio Macri, mayor of Buenos Aires city, in the run-off.