The Americas

Awaiting their fate
Brazil faces hard spending choices in 2021

The poor received huge welfare payments during the pandemic. These may soon dry up

From distortion to disruption
Cuba ends its dual-currency system

A long-awaited reform will cause pain in the short run

Bello
Natural and political disasters in Central America

Hurricane damage will cause problems for Joe Biden, too

Udder delight
Cuba extends the shelf life of a national favourite, dulce de leche

A rare success in a decades-long quest for more and better dairy products

Seeing off a strongman
How to unseat Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega

To have any chance in next year’s presidential election, the opposition must unite now

The art of dissent
The Movimiento San Isidro challenges Cuba’s regime

The government has responded with repression. But the dissidents’ movement sees signs of progress

Reluctant revolution
Oil-rich Alberta seeks ways to go green

Canada’s main fossil-fuel producing province mulls hydrogen and geothermal power

Bello
Argentina’s president without a plan

Alberto Fernández is muddling through

Divine and damned
The blessed and cursed life of Diego Maradona

One of Argentina’s, and the world’s, greatest footballers dies

Bello
The future of bolsonarismo

Brazil’s weak economy could deny President Jair Bolsonaro a second term

Consolidating dictatorship
Venezuela’s regime will win the legislative election, by a lot

A rigged vote will end the opposition’s control of the last democratically elected institution

Divine and damned
The blessed and cursed life of Diego Maradona

One of Argentina’s, and the world’s, greatest footballers dies