Colombian presidential candidate Abelardo de la Espriella enjoys the company of many of the country’s most notorious criminals.

Peru’s election is wide open, for all the wrong reasons.

Will Colombia be the latest Latin American democracy to swing to the right?

The Honduran elections show how Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are seeking bend Latin American democracies to the US foreign policy agenda

Updates from Colombia

Updates from Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador

A round-up of regional news from Chile, Bolivia and Colombia

a review of Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism by Thea Riofrancos

The month in Latin American news, digested.

A brief round-up of some Latin American news from the last month

Claudia Sheinbaum looks likely to win Mexico’s presidential election this weekend, despite deadly violence against politicians.

a review of Still Life With Bones by Alexa Hagerty

Of 142 known amphibian species in Colombia’s páramos, fewer than 30 have been studied in depth while others are likely undiscovered by science.

Attempts to protect the environment and bring an end to violent conflict in Colombia are threatened by legal challenges from multinational mining corporations at secretive tribunals.

After a tumultuous few years, Chile is moving back towards consensus politics and there is still some hope of strengthening and modernizing its democracy.

The populist leader faces an arduous and treacherous road to bring about his ambitious reforms.

How to get up some of Mexico’s most spectacular mountains and what you might see

Mexico’s metro becomes the latest flashpoint in argument over militarization

The ever closer relationship between Mexico’s left-wing president and the military, and what it means for justice in the country

What do Mexicans think about their president and does it matter?