Latin America fears another ‘lost decade’ as pandemic ravages regionVolatile politics, uneven healthcare and inequality enable coronavirus to wreak havocWed Sept 23 2020 - 19:38
Bolsonaro embroiled in abortion row over 10-year-old rape victimGirl became pregnant after years of abuse at the hands of her aunt’s partner, a drug dealerTue Sept 15 2020 - 15:17
Brazil’s Bolsonaro buys ratings amid awful pandemic performanceSão Paulo Letter: President gains in popularity among the poor with social paymentsThu Aug 27 2020 - 16:26
Brazil’s vice-president defends Bolsonaro’s response to Covid-19President criticised for ‘gross negligence’ in handling crisis, as deaths approach 100,000Mon Aug 03 2020 - 19:02
Deforestation of Amazon continues to soar under BolsonaroSão Paulo Letter: Jungle destruction prompts global pressure but makes little impactMon Jul 27 2020 - 16:04
Brazil’s health ministry failed to use emergency Covid-19 funds – reportFederal auditors highlight chaos at heart of Jair Bolsonaro’s administration and its response to the crisisWed Jul 22 2020 - 18:36
Brazilian military takeover of health ministry proves a risky businessArmy high command growing increasingly uneasy at its association with BolsonaroFri Jul 17 2020 - 16:15
Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro tests positive for Covid-19Right-wing leader has sought to minimise threat posed by coronavirus, comparing it to ‘mild flu’Tue Jul 07 2020 - 17:16
The Bolsonaro administration’s ticking time-bombBrazil’s mounting Covid-19 death toll is not the president’s biggest problemSat Jul 04 2020 - 07:00
Coronavirus: Fears grow in Brazil that full scale of crisis remains hiddenRights groups warn of ‘catastrophe of worrying proportions’ in prisons due to virus spreadThu Jun 25 2020 - 18:37
Jair Bolsonaro under pressure as son’s former aide arrestedBrazilian president appears dejected as judicial siege tightens around administrationFri Jun 19 2020 - 17:04
Bolsonaro makes power grab on federal university systemBrazil’s congress plans to block president’s move to use Covid-19 crisis to control collegesThu Jun 11 2020 - 18:56
Coronavirus: Packed Brazilian jails lead to fears of calamityRelatives of prisoners fearful loved ones will catch virus in chronically overcrowded jailsTue May 19 2020 - 19:00
Coronavirus: Brazil’s political chaos deepens as death toll soarsBolsonaro says he will scrap cabinet meetings over leaked video as infections accelerateWed May 13 2020 - 18:15
Latin America’s uneven response to coronavirus tells a talePandemic bearing down on region that spent 2019 racked by political crises and social unrestMon May 11 2020 - 16:07
Brazilian court orders Bolsonaro to release his Covid-19 test resultsPresident faces fine of €825 a day if he fails to comply with court orderFri May 01 2020 - 18:45
Brazil’s Bolsonaro denies ‘coup-mongering’ after attending anti-lockdown rallyPresident spoke at far-right protest amid bitter political dispute over coronavirusMon Apr 20 2020 - 19:04
Brazil’s political crisis deepens after Bolsonaro sacks health ministerPresident demands easing of Covid-19 measures and accuses congress of plot to oust himFri Apr 17 2020 - 18:28
Favelas feel brunt of coronavirus restrictions in BrazilUp to 40 million workers in informal sector hit particularly hard in Covid-19 crisisMon Apr 13 2020 - 17:00
Bolsonaro’s rupture with health minister emblematic of diminishing statureBrazil’s president wary of the pandemic’s effect on his grip on powerTue Apr 07 2020 - 20:00
Coronavirus: Brazilians protest as Bolsonaro misinterprets WHO advicePresident continues campaign against lockdown but moderates tone in national addressWed Apr 01 2020 - 16:12
Irish in Peru: ‘There are people still stuck here and they need not to forget about us’Some Irish people from Wexford, Louth and Belfast still stranded after Government-chartered flight left Lima at weekendTue Mar 31 2020 - 08:25
Irish in ‘good spirits’ as plane leaves Peru for DublinFlight taking tourists left stranded by Covid-19 restrictions home via LondonSun Mar 29 2020 - 22:21
Coronavirus: Approval secured to fly home Irish stranded in PeruAround 135 citizens seeking way out of South American country amid pandemic restrictionsFri Mar 27 2020 - 16:23
Streets deserted amid fears that coronavirus could ‘take down’ VenezuelaCrisis-hit South American country among first in region to impose strict lockdown measuresThu Mar 26 2020 - 11:26
Irish tourists stranded in Peru wait for Government evacuationAround 135 Irish tourists have registered for repatriation after country effectively seals bordersThu Mar 26 2020 - 08:41
Plan to bring home Irish people stranded in Peru awaiting green light from LimaFlight ‘will depend on how soon aircraft can be accommodated by Peruvian authorities’Tue Mar 24 2020 - 09:24
Coronavirus: Bolsonaro accused of disinformation over ‘possible cure’Brazilian president champions anti-malaria medicine despite warning from health regulatorSun Mar 22 2020 - 16:27
Coronavirus: ‘There is literally no way out,’ says Irish man stranded in PeruGearóid McKendrick has been holed up in hostel up all week and doesn’t know when he can return homeSun Mar 22 2020 - 07:42
Covid-19: Move to censure Brazil’s Bolsonaro derailed by pandemicEx-ally’s plan to impeach is foiled after flight to capital falls victim to wave of cancellationsTue Mar 17 2020 - 17:18
How the Bolsonaro government is waging war on Brazil’s poorSão Paulo Letter: Budget for Bolsa payment cut despite inequality gap increasingTue Mar 03 2020 - 20:00
Row over TV host’s estate lifts veil on homophobia in BrazilSão Paulo Letter: Augusto Liberato left nothing to the mother of his three childrenThu Feb 20 2020 - 13:42
The poor pay as Brazil veers between drought and delugeSão Paulo Letter: Scientists call extremes of drought and flooding the ‘new normal’Thu Feb 13 2020 - 20:00
Suspicion surrounds police killing of Adriano NóbregaBolsonaro’s son employed Nóbrega’s wife and mother while he was a state deputyMon Feb 10 2020 - 18:56
Trial over death of Irish man Michael Dwyer collapses in BoliviaTipperary man was shot dead during police raid on hotel in Santa Cruz 11 years agoThu Feb 06 2020 - 00:48
Bossy, chain-smoking mother in drag a counterpoint to Bolsonaro’s stormtroopersSão Paulo Letter: Success of Dona Hermínia films notable in reactionary political timesTue Jan 21 2020 - 20:00
Venezuelan regime criticised for ousting opposition leaderJuan Guaidó prevented by security forces from entering national assembly sessionMon Jan 06 2020 - 16:55
Latin America fell victim to political and economic malaise in 2019Year in Review: Populists now dominate Latin America’s three largest economiesSat Dec 28 2019 - 07:00
Brazil’s Bolsonaro family again linked to councillor’s murderLatest evidence surfaces after inquiry into alleged graft scheme run by president’s sonFri Dec 20 2019 - 16:52
Trump’s humiliation of Brazil a wake-up call for Brexit BritainThe US president is only too willing to embarrass a supplicant foreign ally to shore up support at homeWed Dec 11 2019 - 01:16
Latin America’s populist ‘big men’The world’s slowest growing region is also in political turmoilSat Nov 30 2019 - 06:00
Result in Uruguayan presidential election expected by end of weekCountry’s electoral authorities to begin recount amid unexpectedly close contestMon Nov 25 2019 - 19:40
Uruguay’s election set to underline South American drift to rightNational Party’s Luis Lacalle Pou well ahead in polls for Sunday’s presidential electionFri Nov 22 2019 - 18:59
São Paulo’s gringo hero: Michael D to honour Dublin priestFr Pat Clarke to be among 10 recipients of Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad – for his work with the poor of a São Paulo favelaSat Nov 16 2019 - 06:00
Bolivia: End came swiftly for Evo Morales but crisis has deep rootsMorales and MAS party repeated most basic historical errors of Latin American populistsMon Nov 11 2019 - 20:45
Brazil judge orders release of ex-president Lula from prisonPolitically charged supreme court ruling could free other high-profile convictsFri Nov 08 2019 - 21:14
Growing unrest in Bolivia as audit of disputed poll gets under wayCounting in last month’s presidential election was mysteriously suspended for a dayTue Nov 05 2019 - 18:58
Rights body begins audit of disputed Bolivian presidential electionEvo Morales was declared the winner after a tortuous count declared a fraud by the oppositionThu Oct 31 2019 - 20:24
Brazil’s president furious over report linking him to Marielle Franco murderClaim man charged with the murder visited Bolsonaro’s gated community hours before the killingWed Oct 30 2019 - 20:45
Peronist revival set to plunge Argentina into economic turmoilPopulist Alberto Fernández wins presidential election in first roundMon Oct 28 2019 - 16:02
