World Affairs: South America
Lead Feature
One step forward . . .
In opinion polls Uribe regularly gets upwards of 80 per cent support. Since the dark days the political landscape has changed completely, writes Alice O'Keeffe
In south america
Chávez in danger
- By Stephanie Blankenburg
- 07 July
Chávez has little more than four months - perhaps even less - to come up with a solution to a very difficult equation or his Bolivarian project faces derailment
Ingrid Betancourt -- who she?
- By Martin Bright
- 03 July
The parochialism of the UK media plumbed new depths with coverage of the release of the kidnapped Colombian politician
Enduring memories
- By Michael Chanan
- 03 July
The Cuban master film-maker Tomás Gutiérrez Alea trod a fine line, supporting the revolution but insisting that artists should maintain their distance from those in power
A warning to torturers everywhere
- By Hugh O'Shaughnessy
- 02 July
The man who did much of Pinochet's dirty work is given two 25 year sentences for blowing up an exiled Chilean general and his wife in Buenos Aires
Sending money home
- By Enrique Mendizabal
- 20 June
The vital role of workers who send their money home to Latin America and how they can create a "brain gain" effect
Radical hope in Venezuela
- By Hugh O'Shaughnessy
- 19 June
¡Hugo! The Hugo Chávez Story: from Mud Hut to Perpetual Revolution
Bart Jones
Bodley Head, 608pp, £12.99
Americanos: Latin America's Struggle for Independence
John Chasteen
Oxford University Press, 240pp,£14,99
Feature
Hanging with Umbanda
Things that bump and grind in the night. Tom Quinn travels to Portugal to gain first hand experience of the voodoo-esque religion of Umbanda which has its roots in Brazil, Africa and Catholicism
More in south america
Paddington returns
- By Alyssa McDonald
- 12 June 2008
A new dawn for the Caribbean?
- By Darcus Howe
- 12 June 2008
Guevara's last stand
- By Chris Bradley
- 12 June 2008
The green fig leaves
- By Jan Rocha
- 29 May 2008
Bordering on disaster
- By Nicholas Wapshott
- 22 May 2008
Growth industry
- By Roger Scruton
- 15 May 2008
Priests' law of death
- By Martin Markovits and Vincent Bevins
- 01 May 2008
